Investigation of scintillation light multiplexing for PET detectors based on position sensitive avalanche photodiodes

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 2027-2030

  Habte, Frezghi ^a,b   Olcott, Peter D ^a,b   Levin, Craig S ^a,b   Foudray, Angela M K ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lutetium oxy orthosilicate; Position sensitive avalanche photodiode; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CONFIGURATION; LUTETIUM OXY ORTHOSILICATE; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SPECULAR REFLECTORS;

AVALANCHE DIODES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 33846582553     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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