Signal Characteristics of Individual Crystals in High Resolution BGO Detector Designs Using PMT-Quadrant Sharing

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 355-361

  Uribe, Jorge ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Aykac, Mehmet ^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 sharing detectors; scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

INDIVIDUAL CRYSTALS; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; QUADRANT SHARING DETECTORS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0038043937     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812478     Document Type: Article

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