An Analog Decoding BGO Block Detector Using Circular Photomultipliers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1095-1101

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Hicks, Keri ^a   Hu, Guoji ^b  

^a University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ^*

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CAMERAS; COSTS; DECODING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTOTUBES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ANALOG DECODING; BISMUTH GERMANATE BLOCK DETECTOR; CIRCULAR PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON CAMERAS; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0029358360     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.467742     Document Type: Article

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