A high efficiency pixelated detector for small animal PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 801-804

  Nagarkar, Vivek V ^a   Tipnis, Sameer V ^a   Shah, Kanai ^a   Shestakova, Irina ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^b  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Lutetium oxyorthosilicate (ISO); Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillators; Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; LASER ABLATION; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE (LSO); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3343023843     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829750     Document Type: Article

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