Design of a depth of interaction detector with a PS-PMT for PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1045-1050

  Murayama, H ^a,c   Ishibashi, H ^a   Uchida, ^a   Omura, T ^b   Yamashita, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Showa Denko Materials Co   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DEPTH ENCODING SCHEME; DYNODES; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; POSITIONING HISTOGRAM;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0034206973     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856545     Document Type: Article

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