Investigation of Lanthanum Scintillators for 3-D PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 348-354

  Surti, S ^a   Karp, J S ^a   Muehllehner, G ^b   Raby, P S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c Saint Gobain Crystals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANTHANUM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENERGY RESOLUTION; LANTHANUM SCINTILLATORS; TIMING RESOLUTION;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0038043944     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812450     Document Type: Article

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