Design of a compact gamma camera with semiconductor hybrid pixel detectors: Imaging tests with a pinhole collimator

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 509, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 321-327

  Mettivier, G ^a   Montesi, M C ^a   Russo, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma camera; Hybrid pixel detectors; Lymphoscintigraphy; Medipix; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SILICON;

PIXEL DETECTORS;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0041728648     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01644-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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