Effect of photomultiplier gain-drift and radiation exposure on 2D-map decoding of detector arrays used in positron emission tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1960-1964

  Uribe, Jorge ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Aykac, Mehmet ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR ARRAYS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; PHOTOMULTIPLIER GAIN-DRIFT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL MAP DECODING;

GAIN MEASUREMENT; GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035554561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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