Scintillation crystal design features for a miniature gamma ray camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 I, 2005, Pages 1439-1446

  Dhanasopon, Andrew P ^b,c   Levin, Craig S ^a,b,c   Foudray, Angela M K ^a,b,c   Olcott, Peter D ^b,c   Habte, Frezghi ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectors; Gamma camera; Gamma ray imaging; Monte Carlo simulations; Scintillation crystal; Surgical staging

Indexed keywords

GAMMA CAMERA; GAMMA RAY IMAGING; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SURGICAL STAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CAMERAS;

EID: 29144464835     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.858178     Document Type: Article

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