First prototype of a gamma-camera based on a single CsI(Tl) scintillator coupled to a silicon drift detector array

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6 I, 2000, Pages 1928-1932

  Fiorini, C ^a   Longoni, A ^a   Perotti, F ^a   Labanti, C ^a   Rossi, E ^a   Lechner, P ^a   Struder L ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM COMPOUNDS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS; SILICON SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CENTROID METHOD; GAMMA CAMERA; GAMMA PHOTON ENERGY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SILICON DRIFT DETECTOR ARRAY; SINGLE CESIUM IODIDE SCINTILLATOR;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0034450545     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.914472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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