Prospects for time-of-flight pet using lso scintillator

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 474-478

  Moses, W W ^a   Derenzo, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE TIMING; LUMINOSITY; LUTETIUM ORTHOSILICATE;

CRYSTALS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033337104     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775565     Document Type: Article

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