Study of Spatial Resolution and Depth of Interaction of APD-Based PET Detector Modules Using Light Sharing Schemes

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1415-1419

  Bruyndonckx, Peter ^a   Léonard, Sophie ^a   Liu, Jiangui ^a   Tavernier, Stefaan ^a   Szupryczynski, Piotr ^a   Fedorov, Andrei ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Block detectors; Neural network; Positron emission tomography (PET).

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS;

SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 10744231688     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817348     Document Type: Article

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