Depth of interaction resolution measurements for a high resolution PET detector using position sensitive avalanche photodiodes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2131-2142

  Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Dokhale, Purushottam A ^b   Silverman, Robert W ^c   Shah, Kanai S ^b   McClish, Mickel A ^b   Farrell, Richard ^b   Entine, Gerald ^b   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DETECTORS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DEPTH OF INTERACTION (DOI); ENERGY RESOLUTION; PET SCANNER; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (PSAPDS);

AVALANCHE DIODES;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DIODE; HISTOGRAM; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33645990583     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/9/001     Document Type: Article

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