Feasibility Study of an Avalanche Photodiode Readout for a High Resolution PET with nsec Time Resolution

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1080-1084

  Schmelz, C ^a   Bradbury, S M ^b   Holl, I ^c   Lorenz, E ^d   Renker, D ^d   Ziegler, S ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SODIUM;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE READOUT; DESIGN CONFIGURATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE CRYSTALS; TIME RESOLUTION;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 0029358209     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467745     Document Type: Article

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