Experience with scintillators for PET: Towards the fifth generation of PET scanners

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 525, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 242-248

  Eriksson, L ^a,b   Townsend, D ^c   Eriksson, M ^a,b   Melcher, C ^d   Schmand, M ^a   Bendriem, B ^a   Nutt, R ^d  

^a CPS Innovations   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Siemens Molecular Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

3D data acquisition; 3D imaging; LSO; Lutetium oxyorthosilicate; PET; Whole body imaging

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

3 D DATA AQUISITION; DECAY TIME; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; WHOLE-BODY IMAGING;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 3342886296     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.03.067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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