Evaluation of LAAPD arrays for high-resolution scintillator matrices readout

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1693-1698

  Kapusta, M ^b   Crespo, P ^c   Moszynski M ^a,b   Enghardt, W ^d   Szawlowski, M ^a,e   Zhou, B L ^e   Wolski, D ^b  

^a IEEE

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e Advanced Photonix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Position sensitive avalanche photodiodes; Positron emission tomography; Scintillation matrices

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LARGE-AREA AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (LAAPD);

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0036702940     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801667     Document Type: Article

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