Assessment of photodiodes as a light detector for PET scanners

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages 4177-4181

  Frach, Thomas ^a   Ruetten, Walter ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Maehlum, Gunnar ^b   Solf, Torsten ^a   Thon, Andreas ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b Gamma Medica Ideas (Norway) AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

PET; Photodiode readout; Pixelated readout

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

LIGHT PULSE; PET SCANNERS; PHOTODIODE READOUT; PIXELATED READOUT;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 23844482061     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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