A four-layer attenuation compensated PET detector based on APD arrays without discrete crystal elements

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 4187-4207

  McCallum, Stephen ^a   Clowes, Peter ^a   Welch, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LINEARIZATION; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODES (APD); LIGHT COLLECTION; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIODE LASER; DISPLAY SYSTEM; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; THICKNESS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAMMA CAMERAS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 24044500009     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/019     Document Type: Article

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