Suppression of random coincidences during in-beam PET measurements at ion beam radiotherapy facilities

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 980-987

  Crespo, Paulo ^a,b   Barthel, Thomas ^a,b,c,d   Frais Kölbl, Helmut ^a,e   Griesmayer, Erich ^a,e   Heidel, Klaus ^b   Parodi, Katia ^b,f   Pawelke, Jörg ^b   Enghardt, Wolfgang ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES MITTWEIDA   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM CHEMNITZ   (Germany)

^e MedAustron GmbH   (Austria)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode (APD); Ion therapy; LSO; Positron emission tomography (PET); Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; ION THERAPY; LSO; PROTON THERAPY;

CYCLOTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; ION BEAMS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 27644529469     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.852637     Document Type: Article

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