Silicon detector for a Compton camera in nuclear medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 812-816

  Meier, D ^a   Czermak, A ^b   Jalocha, P ^b   Sowicki, B ^b   Kowal, M ^c   Dulinski, W ^d   Maeshlum G ^e   Nygard E ^e   Yoshioka, K ^e   Fuster, J ^f   Lacasta, C ^f   Mikuz, M ^g   Roe, S ^h   Weilhammer, P ^h   Hua, C H ⁱ   Park, S J ⁱ   Wildermann, S J ⁱ   Zhang, L ⁱ   Clinthorne, N H ^a   Rogers, W L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^d CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^e Ideas ASA   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^h CERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge sensitive; Compton camera; Electronic collimation; Low noise; Readout; Self triggering; Sensor; Silicon

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; PROBES; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CHARGE SENSITIVE; COMPTON CAMERA; ELECTRONIC COLLIMATION; NUCLEAR MEDICAL IMAGING; SELF-TRIGGERING; SILICON DETECTORS;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

EID: 0036624466     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039568     Document Type: Article

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