A local coincidence triggering system for PET tomographs composed of large-area position-sensitive detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 730-736

  Mankoff, D A ^a   Muehllehner, G ^a   Miles, G E ^a  

^a UGM Medical Systems ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, TRIGGER; RADIATION DETECTORS;

COINCIDENCE TRIGGERING; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0025414252     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.106706     Document Type: Article

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