Virtual PMTs: Improving centroid positioning performance near the edges of a gamma camera detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Vaska, P ^a,b   Petrillo, M J ^c   Muehllehner, G ^a  

^a UGM Laboratory Inc   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ADAC Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; X RAY CAMERAS;

CENTROID POSITIONING; GAMMA CAMERA DETECTOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VIRTUAL PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0034593913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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