Inexpensive Position Sensitive Detector Block for Dedicated PET Cameras Using 40-mm Diameter PMT in Quadrant Sharing Configuration

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-372

  Uribe, Jorge ^a   Aykac, Mehmet ^a   Baghaei, Hosain ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Wong, Vincenzo ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Ramirez, Rocio ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

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

Author keywords

Photodetectors; position sensitive detectors; positron emission tomography (PET); quadrant shaping detectors; scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

BORON COMPOUNDS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; MASKS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOMULTIPLIER QUADRANT SHARING; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTOR; QUADRANT SHARING DETECTORS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0038043893     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812422     Document Type: Article

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