Impact of intercrystal crosstalk on depth-of-interaction information in PET detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 427-432

  Degenhardt, Carsten ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Frach, Thomas ^a   Rütten, Walter ^a   Solf, Torsten ^a   Thon, Andreas ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depth of interaction (DOI); Detector scatter; Intercrystal crosstalk; Parallax error; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS;

DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION (DOI); DETECTOR SCATTER; INTERCRYSTAL CROSSTALK; PARALLAX ERROR;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250733370     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.895508     Document Type: Article

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