A Study of inter-crystal scatter in small scintillator arrays designed for high resolution PET imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1938-1944

  Shao, Yiping ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a   Siegel, Stefan ^a   Silverman, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS;

COINCIDENCE LINE SPREAD FUNCTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ANIMAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY DETECTOR; INTER CRYSTAL SCATTER;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0030167954     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507250     Document Type: Article

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