Investigation of a continuous crystal PSAPD-based gamma camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1643-1649

  Després, Philippe ^a   Barber, William C ^a   Funk, Tobias ^a   McClish, Mickel ^b   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Biomedical nuclear imaging; Position sensitive particle detectors; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; POSITION SENSITIVE PARTICLE DETECTORS;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33746325162     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.875354     Document Type: Article

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