A four-layer depth of interaction detector block for small animal PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1789-1793

  Tsuda, Tomoaki ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^b   Kitamura, Keishi ^b,c   Yamaya, Taiga ^d   Yoshida, Eiji ^b   Omura, Tomohide ^e   Kawai, Hideyuki ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^b   Orita, Narimichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION;

ANGER TYPE CALCULATIONS; DEPTH OF INTERACTION (DOI); PARALLAX ERROR; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS (PMT);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844261469     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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