New prospects for time-of-flight PET with LSO scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2484-2488

  Moszynski M ^a,b   Kapusta, M ^a,b   Nassalski, A ^b   Szczesniak T ^b   Wolski, D ^b   Eriksson, L ^a,c,d   Melcher, C L ^a,c,e  

^a IEEE   (Poland)

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast PMTs; Fast timing; LSO scintillator; Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

FAST PMTS; FAST TIMING; LSO SCINTILLATOR; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCINTILLATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750392737     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.875999     Document Type: Article

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