Performance of a PET detector with a 256ch flat panel PS-PMT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 58-62

  Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^b   Omura, Tomohide ^b   Yamashita, Takaji ^b   Kawai, Hideyuki ^c   Umehara, Takaya ^c   Kasahara, Takehiro ^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 PMT; Position sensitive detector; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MULTI-ANODE PMT; PHOTOMULTILIER TUBES (PMT); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); POSITRON SENSITIVE DETECTOR; SCINTILLATION DETECTOR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 2342506516     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.823332     Document Type: Article

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