Investigation of position sensitive avalanche photodiodes for a new high-resolution PET detector design

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 805-810

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

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Photodetectors; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHOTODETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CRYSTAL ARRAYS; CRYSTAL PACKING FRACTIONS; CRYSTAL RODS; PHOTON DETECTION;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 3342880275     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.830112     Document Type: Article

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