Investigation of the "block effect" on spatial resolution in PET detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2201-2205

  Tomic, Nada ^a   Thompson, Christopher J ^b   Casey, Michael E ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CTI PET Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRAIN; CRYSTALS; GAMMA RAYS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

BISMUTH GERMANATE (BGO); CRYSTAL WIDTH (CW); PHOTO-MULTIPLIER TUBES (PMT); SPATIAL RESOLUTION SR);

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11844286899     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nssmic.2003.1352317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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