Front-end Electronics Based on High-yield-pileup-event-recovery Method for a High Resolution PET Camera with PMT-quadrant-sharing Detector Modules

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 699-703

  Li, Hongdi ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Farrell, Rocio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL;

TRIGGER DELAY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142148132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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