Position sensitive APDs for small animal PET imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 91-95

  Shah, K S ^a   Grazioso, R ^a   Farrell, R ^a   Glodo, J ^a   McClish, M ^a   Entine, G ^a   Dokhale, P ^b   Cherry, S R ^b  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

APD; LSO; PET; Position sensitive

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPLEXING; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TUMORS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

LSO; POSITION SENSITIVE;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 2342581478     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.823012     Document Type: Article

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