Investigation of microcolumnar scintillators on an optical fiber coupled compact imaging system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 637-644

  Tornai, Martin P ^a,b   Archer, Caryl N ^b   Weisenberger, Andrew G ^c   Wojcik, Randolph ^c   Popov, Vladimir ^c   Majewski, Stan ^c   Keppel, Cynthia E ^c,d   Levin, Craig S ^a,e   Tipnis, Sameer V ^f   Nagarkar, Vivek V ^f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON NATIONAL ACCELERATOR FACILITY   (United States)

^d HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta ray detectors; Biomedical nuclear imaging; Nuclear imaging; Optical fiber coupling; Optical fibers; Positron sensitive particle detectors; Positrons; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; X RAYS;

NUCLEAR IMAGING;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 17944364271     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.940139     Document Type: Article

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