A pentagon photomultiplier-quadrant-sharing BGO detector for a rodent research PET (RRPET)

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 210-216

  Xie, Shuping ^a   Ramirez, Rocio ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Kim, Soonseok ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Pentagon block; Photomultiplier quadrantsharing (PQS); Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION;

PACKING FRACTION; PENTAGON BLOCK; PHOTOMULTIPLIER-QUADRANT-SHARING (PQS); SMALL-ANIMAL PET;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20244389194     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.843093     Document Type: Article

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