Performance of prototype liquid xenon scintillation detector system for time-of-flight type positron emission tomography with improved photomultipliers

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 7 A, 2005, Pages 5193-5198

  Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Doke, Tadayoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Jun ^a   Mori, Toshinori ^a,b   Murayama, Hideo ^a,c   Ooshita, Tatsuro ^a   Takahashi, Hidehiro ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liquid xenon; Position emission tomography (PET); Time of flight (TOF); Time resolution; Whole body PET

Indexed keywords

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; XENON;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TIME OF FLIGHT (TOF); TIME RESOLUTION; WHOLE BODY PET;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 31544470599     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.44.5193     Document Type: Article

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