A high count rate position decoding and energy measuring method for nuclear cameras using anger logic detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1122-1127

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS; SCINTILLATION;

ANGER LOGIC DETECTORS; DELAY LINE CLIPPING METHOD; GAMMA CAMERAS; NUCLEAR CAMERAS; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; PULSE SHAPING METHOD;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0032095942     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.681989     Document Type: Article

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