An elongated position sensitive block detector design using the pmt quadrantsharing configuration and asymmetric light partition

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 542-545

  Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeru ^a   Uribe, Jörge ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOMULTIPLIER QUADRANT SHARING CONFIGURATION; POSITION SENSITIVE BLOCK DETECTOR;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0033341721     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775576     Document Type: Article

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