SiliPET: Design of an ultra high resolution small animal PET scanner based on stacks of semiconductor detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3010-3013

  Auricchio, Natalia ^b   Cesca, Nicola ^b   Di Domenico, Giovanni ^a,b   Moretti, Elena ^b   Sabba, Nicola ^b   Gambaccini, Mauro ^b   Zavattini, Guido ^a,b   Andritschke, Robert ^c   Kanbach, Gottfried ^c   Schopper, Florian ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double sided silicon strip detector; Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT EMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTODETECTORS;

COMPTON SCATTERING; DOUBLE SIDED SILICON STRIP DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SMALL ANIMAL PET;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846610646     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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