Performance of 256ch flat panel PS-PMT with small crystals for a DOI PET detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 15-20

  Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^b   Omura, Tomohide ^b   Yamashita, Takaji ^b   Kawai, Hideyuki ^c   Orita, Narimichi ^c   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multi anode photomultiplier tube (PMT); Position sensitive detector; Scintillation detector; Small animal positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ANODES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CRYSTALS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; GAMMA RAYS; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DEPTH OF INDENTATION (DOI); MULTI-ANODE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE (PMT); POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SMALL ANIMAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 17644373792     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.843148     Document Type: Article

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