An iterative energy-centroid method for recalibration of PMT gain in PET or gamma camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2047-2050

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy spectrum; Gamma camera; PET camera; Photomultiplier tube; Recalibration

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANGER DECODING DETECTOR; GAIN EQUALIZATION; GAIN-TUNING INDEX; GAMMA CAMERA; IMAGE DISTORTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; ITERATIVE ENERGY-CENTROID METHOD; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; RECALIBRATION; VARIABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIER;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0036815732     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803773     Document Type: Article

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