Improvement of the Depth of Interaction Detector for PET on Full Energy Pulse Height Uniformity

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1439-1444

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

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^d Showa Denko Materials Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depth of interaction; Nuclear medicine; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOCATHODES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 10744231153     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817353     Document Type: Article

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