Slotted surface treatment of position-sensitive NaI(TI) detectors to improve detector performance

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 6 III, 2001, Pages 2418-2423

  Surti, S ^a,b   Freifelder, R ^a,b   Karp, J S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle detector; Positron emission tomography (PET); Slotted position sensitive NaI(TI) detector

Indexed keywords

ANGER DETECTOR; CUTTING SLOTS; LIGHT RESPONSE FUNCTION; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SLOT PITCH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SURFACE TREATMENT;

EID: 0035725626     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.983252     Document Type: Article

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