A comparison of BGO, GSO, MLS, LGSO, LYSO and LSO scintillation materials for high-spatial-resolution animal PET detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 2835-2839

  Ramirez, Rocio A ^b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b   Kim, Soonseok ^b   Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Yuxuan ^b   Liu, Shitao ^c   Liu, Jiguo ^c   Xie, Shuping ^b   Liu, Yaqiang ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DATA REDUCTION; DECODING; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION ANIMAL PET DETECTORS; LSO SCINTILLATION MATERIALS; SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS MATERIALS; SCINTILLATION LIGHT OUTPUT;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33846643642     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596923     Document Type: Conference Paper

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