Collection of Scintillation Light from Small BGO Crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1058-1063

  Cherry, Simon R ^a   Shao, Yiping ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^a   Siegel, Stefan ^a   Ricci, Anthony R ^a   Phelps, Michael E ^b  

^a Crump Institute for Biological Imaging Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology UCLA School of Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOEMISSION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ANIMAL IMAGING; BISMUTH GERMANATE CRYSTALS; MULTI-CHANNEL PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTOELECTRONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY DETECTOR; SCINTILLATION LIGHT; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0029357251     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467749     Document Type: Article

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