Experimental characterization of monolithic-crystal small animal PET detectors read out by APD arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1071-1077

  Maas, Marnix C ^b   Van Der Laan, D J ^b   Schaart, Dennis R ^b   Huizenga, Jan ^b   Brouwer, J C ^b   Bruyndonckx, Peter ^c   Léonard, Sophie ^c   Lemaître, Cedric ^c   Van Eijk, Carel W E ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angle of incidence; Avalanche photodiode (APD); Depth of interaction; Monolithic scintillator crystals; Nearest neighbor method; Positron emission tomography (PET); Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE (APD); DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION; MONOLITHIC SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

AVALANCHE DIODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 33746354946     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.873711     Document Type: Article

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