Positioning And Energy Response Of Pet Block Detectors With Different Light Sharing Schemes

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1458-1463

  Tornai, Martin P ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^a   Germano, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA SOURCE; GAMMA SOURCES; LIGHT SHARING SCHEMES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY BLOCK DETECTORS;

CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028493581     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.322931     Document Type: Article

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