Electronics for a prototype variable field of view pet camera using the pmt-quadrant-sharing detector array

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 546-550

  Li, Hongdi ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   Wang, Junming ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TABLE LOOKUP; TRIGGER CIRCUITS;

PHOTOMULTIPLIER QUADRANT SHARING DETECTOR;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0033355614     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775577     Document Type: Article

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