A study of intrinsic crystal-pixel light-output spread for discrete scintigraphic imagers modeling

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 80-84

  Scafè, Raffaele ^a   Pellegrini, Rosanna ^b   Soluri, Alessandro ^c   Montani, Livia ^a   Tatì, Angelo ^a   Cinti, Maria Nerina ^b   Cusanno, Francesco ^d   Trotta, Gianfranco ^b   Pani, Roberto ^b   Garibaldi, Franco ^d  

^a CR Casaccia ^*  (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

High resolution; Nuclear medicine; Position sensitive photomultiplier tube; Scintillation array; Scintillation imager; Spatial light distribution

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HIGH RESOLUTION; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; SCINTILLATION ARRAY; SCINTILLATION IMAGERS; SPATIAL LIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 2342533789     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823039     Document Type: Article

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