Characterization of the LBNL PEM camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1129-1135

  Wang, G C ^a,b,c   Huber, J S ^a,b   Moses, W W ^a,b   Qi, J ^a,d   Choong, W S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging; Depth of interaction (DOI); Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL OF INTERACTION; DEPTH OF INTERACTION (DOI); FULL-WIDTH-AT-HATF-MAXIMUM (FWHM); INTERACTION MEASUREMENT CAPABILITY;

MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 33746345596     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874956     Document Type: Article

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