Initial characterization of a nonpixelated scintillator detector in a PET prototype demonstrator

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2543-2548

  Bruyndonckx, P ^a   Lemaître, Cedric ^a   Léonard, Sophie ^a   Schaart, Dennis R ^b   Van Der Laan, D J ^b   Maas, Marnix C ^b   Devroede, Olivier ^a   Wu, Yibao ^a   Krieguer, Magalie ^a   Tavernier, Stefaan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Light sharing; Neural network; PET; Scintillator

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT SHARING; MONOLITHIC SCINTILLATOR BLOCKS; PET DETECTOR; RADIAL DISTANCES;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33750399792     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.875998     Document Type: Article

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