Numerical simulation of pixcllated CdZnTe detector for medical radionuclide imaging application

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 385-391

  Iwata, Koji ^a   Hasegawa, B H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROSCOPY;

GAMMA RAY SPECTRA; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SEMICONDUCTOR RADIATION DETECTORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0033321428     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775549     Document Type: Article

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