Timing performance of Hi-Rez detector for time-of-flight (TOF) PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1084-1089

  Aykac, Mehmet ^a,b   Bauer, Florian ^b   Williams, Charles W ^b   Loope, Michael ^b   Schmand, Matthias ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

LSO; PET; Time of flight; TOF

Indexed keywords

HI-REZ DETECTOR; LSO; NOISE VARIANCE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF);

IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746335330     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874957     Document Type: Article

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