Hybrid mercuric IODIDE (HgI2) - gadolinium orthosilicate (GSO) detector for PET.

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 533-537

  Dahlbom, M ^a   Mandelkern, M ^a   Hoffman, E ^a   Ricci, A ^a   rton, J B ^a   Iwanczyk, J ^b   Dabrowski, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS;

COINCIDENCE TIMING; GADOLINIUM ORTHOSILICATE; MERCURIC IODIDE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0021372637     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.1985.4336888     Document Type: Article

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