Basic study on pulse height distribution of DOI detectors constructed of stacked crystal elements

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1429-1433

  Umehara, Takaya ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^b   Omura, Tomohide ^c   Ishibashi, Hiroyuki ^d   Kawai, Hideyuki ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^b   Kasahara, Takehiro ^a   Orita, Narimichi ^a   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^d High Performance Materials Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

CRYSTAL ARRAYS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142179051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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