Design studies of a high resolution PET detector using APD arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1051-1057

  Shao, Y ^a,c   Silverman, R W ^a   Farrell, R ^a   Cirignano, L ^b   Graziose R ^b   Shah, K S ^a   Visser, G ^a   Clajus, M ^a   Turner, T O ^b   Cherry, S R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^c NOVA R and D Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; PHOSPHORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; READOUT SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE ARRAYS; CHARGE SHARING RESISTOR NETWORK; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; SIGNAL MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0034206730     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856546     Document Type: Article

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