PSPMT and photodiode designs of a small scintillation camera for imaging malignant breast tumors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4 PART 1, 1997, Pages 1513-1520

  Levin, Craig S ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^a   Tornai, Martin P ^a   MacDonald, Lawrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MAMMOGRAPHY; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES (PSPMT); SCINTILLATION CAMERAS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031210464     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.632706     Document Type: Article

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