A novel PET detector block with three dimensional hit position encoding

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1718-1722

  LeBlanc, James W ^a   Thompson, Richard A ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

DUAL-END READOUT; OPTICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; PHOTOSENSORS; RELATIVE FRACTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844252028     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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