Coincidence Time Alignment of High Resolution Planar Detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 956-959

  Lenox, Mark W ^a   Burbar, Ziad ^a   Young, John ^a   Gremillion, Tim ^a   Knoess, Christof ^b  

^a CPS Innovations   (United States)

^b MPI Cologne   (Germany)

Author keywords

HRRT; PET

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

CONSTANT FRACTION DISCRIMINATOR (CFD);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142179110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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