Performance evaluation of a deal-crystal APD-based detector modules for positron emission tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pepin, Catherine M ^a   Bérard, Philippe ^a   Cadorette, Jules ^a   Tétrault, Marc André ^a   Leroux, Jean Daniel ^a   Michaud, Jean Baptiste ^a   Robert, Stéfan ^a   Dautet, Henri ^b   Davies, Murray ^b   Fontaine, Réjean ^a   Lecomte, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECODING; DETECTOR CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

DEAL-CRYSTAL APD-BASED DETECTOR MODULES; ERROR-FREE DECODING; PARALLEL ELECTRONIC ARCHITECTURE; PHOSWICH DETECTORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745351038     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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