Study of hole-type gas multiplication structures for portal imaging and other high count rate applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 809-819

  Ostling, J ^a   Brahme, A ^b   Danielsson, M ^c   Francke, T ^d   Iacobaeus, C ^b   Peskov, V ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d XCounter AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Camillary plates; GEM; High counting rate; Portal imaging

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

PORTAL IMAGING;

ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS;

EID: 0042928284     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.814562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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