Improving the performance of small planar detectors for dedicated PET instrument

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Zhang, Nan ^a   Thompson, Christopher J ^b   Thompson, Charles L ^c   Nguyen, Khanh Q ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CEGEP Vanier College   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE;

BREAST IMAGING; DETECTOR TIMING; FIELD OF VIEW DETECTORS; GAMMA RAY INTERACTION; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; SMALL PLANAR DETECTORS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0034593828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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