High resolution block detectors for PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 589-593

  Yamashita, T ^a   Watanabe, M ^a   Shimizu, K ^a   Uchida, H ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUBES, PHOTOMULTIPLIER; GAMMA RAYS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

BISMUTH GERMANATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0025414702     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.106682     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. T.Hayashi, “New photomultiplier tubes for medical imaging,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-36, pp. 1078–1083, 1989
2. S.E.Derenzo, R.H.Huesman, J.L.Cahoon et al., “A positron tomograph with 600 BGO crystals and 2.6mm resolution,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-35, pp. 659–664, 1988
3. T.Yamashita, H.Uchida, H.Okada et al., “Development of a high resolution PET,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-37, 1990 (Submitted)
4. T.Tomitani, N.Nohara, H.Murayarna et al., “Development of a high resolution positron CT for animal studies,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-32, pp. 822–825, 1985
5. L.Erilcsson, C.Bohrn, M.Kesselberg et al., “A high resolution positron camera” Proc. VII Nobel Conf. on Metabolism of the Human Brain Studied with Positron Emission tomography, Stockholm, 1983
6. S.Yamamoto, S.Miura, S.Iida et al., “A BGO detector unit for a stationary high resolution positron emission tomography,” J Comput Assist Tomogr, vol. 10, pp. 851–855, 1986
7. M.E.Casey and R.Nutt, “A multicrystal two dimensional BGO detector system for positron emission tomograhy,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-33, pp. 460–463, 1986
8. S.Holte, L.Eriksson, J.E.Larsson et al., “A preliminary evaluation of a positron camera system using weighted decoding of individual crystals,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-35, pp. 730–734
9. M.M.Ter-Pogossian, D.C.Ficke, M.Yamamoto et al., “Super Pett II: A positron emission tomograph utilizing photon time-of-flight information,” IEEE Trans Med Imag, vol. MI-1, pp. 179–187, 1982
10. H.Uchida, T.Yamashita, M.Iida et al., “Design of mosaic BGO detector system for positron CT,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-33, pp. 464–467, 1986
11. H.Kume, S.Muramatsu and M.Iida, “Position sensitive photomultiplier tubes for scintillation imaging,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-33, pp. 359–363, 1986
12. K.Shimizu, T.Ohmura, M.Watanabe et al., “Development of 3-D D detector system for positron CT,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-35, pp. 717–720, 1988
13. W.H.Wong, “Designing a stratified detection system for PET cameras,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, NS-33, pp. 591–596, 1986
14. J.G.Rogers, D.P.Saylor, R.Harrop et al., “Design of an efficient position sensitive gamma ray detector for nuclear medicine,” Phys Med Biol, vol. 31, pp. 1061–1090, 1986
15. J.S.Karp and M.E.Daube-Witherspoon, “Determination of depth-of-interaction in scintillation crystal using a temperature gradient,” Nucl Instr Meth, vol. A260, pp. 509–517, 1987
16. S.E.Derenzo, W.W.Moses, H.G.Jackson et al., “Initial characterization of a position-sensitive photodiode/BGO detector for PET,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-36, pp. 1084–1089, 1989
17. N.Nohara, E.Tanaka, T.Tomitani et al., “Analytical study of performance of high resolution positron emission computed tomographs for animal study,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-32, pp. 818–821, 1985
18. M.Kesselberg, C.Bohm, J.E.Litton et al., “Design considerations of small crystal positron camera systems,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-32, pp. 907–911, 1985
19. E.Tanaka, T.Hiramoto and N.Nohara, “Scintillation cameras based on new position arithmetics,” J Nucl Med, vol. 11, pp. 542–547, 1970
20. T.D.Milster, J.A.Selberg, H.H.Barrett et al., “Digital position estimation for the modular scintillation camera,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-32, pp. 748–752, 1985
21. N.H.Clinthorne, W.L.Rogers, L.Shao et al., “A hybrid maximum likelihood computer for scintillation cameras,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-34, pp. 97–101, 1987
22. J.G.Rogers, R.Harrop, P.E.Kinahan et al., “Conceptional design of a whole body PET machine,” IEEE Trans Nucl Sci, vol. NS-35, pp. 680–684, 1988
23. J.S.Karp, G.Muehllehner and R.M.Lewitt, “Constrained Fourier space method for compensation of missing data in emission computed tomography,” IEEE Trans Med Imag, vol. MI-7, pp. 21–25, 1988