A new timing model for calculating the intrinsic timing resolution of a scintillator detector

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1103-1117

  Shao, Yiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

PHOTON-ELECTRON CONVERSION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF); TIMING MODELS; TIMING RESOLUTION;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRON; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247173074     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/4/016     Document Type: Article

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