An Efficient Detector Production Method for Position-Sensitive Scintillation Detector Arrays with 98% Detector Packing Fraction

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1144-1148

  Uribe, J ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Baghaei, H ^a   Farrel, R ^a   Li, H ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Xing, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; CRYSTALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

CRYSTAL-PACKING DENSITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0142210162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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