Modeling and correction of spatial distortion in position-sensitive avalanche photodiodes

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-29

  Després, Philippe ^a   Barber, William C ^a   Funk, Tobias ^a   McClish, Mickel ^b   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Hasegawa, Bruce H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Biomedical nuclear imaging; Position sensitive detectors

Indexed keywords

ANODES; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PIXELS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; GAMMA IMAGERS; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SPATIAL DISTORTION;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

EID: 33847712161     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.886374     Document Type: Article

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