Photon-counting gamma camera based on columnar CsI(Tl) optically coupled to a back-illuminated CCD

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Miller, Brian W ^a   Barber, H Bradford ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a   Chen, Liying ^a   Taylor, Sean J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bazooka SPECT detector; Columnar CsI(Tl); EMCCD; Molecular imaging; Photon counting; SPECT

Indexed keywords

GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; HIGH-RESOLUTION DETECTORS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTON COUNTING;

GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODELING; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; RADIOGRAPHY;

CCD CAMERAS;

EID: 35148898345     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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