A Positron Camera Detector Design with Cross-Coupled Scintillators and Quadrant Sharing Photomultipliers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 962-966

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

CROSS-COUPLED SCINTILLATORS; POSITRON CAMERA DETECTORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0027644358     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.256693     Document Type: Article

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