Performance of a PET prototype demonstrator based on non-pixelated scintillators

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3924-3927

  Bruyndonckx, P ^a   Lemaître, Cedric ^a   Léonard, Sophie ^a   Schaart, Dennis R ^b   Van Der Laan, D J ^b   Maas, Marnix C ^b   Wu, Yibao ^a   Krieguer, Magalie ^a   Tavernier, Stefaan ^a   Devroede, Olivier ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DETECTOR HEADS; DETECTOR MODULES; PIXELS; SCINTILLATION LIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 23844475133     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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