Initial Studies of a New Detector Design for Ultra-High Resolution Positron Emission Tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1751-1755

  Levin, Craig S ^a   Habte, Frezghi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CRYSTALS; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142178994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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