Timing in thick silicon detectors for a compton camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2549-2557

  Mikuz M ^a   Studen, A ^a   Cindro, V ^a   Kramberger, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Charge collection; Compton camera; PET; Silicon detectors; Simulation; SPECT; Timing

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GAMMA RAYS; JITTER; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TRIGGER CIRCUITS;

CHARGE COLLECTION; COMPTON CAMERA; RAMO THEOREM; SILICON DETECTORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GEANT;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0036816252     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803884     Document Type: Article

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