Investigation of depth of interaction decoding for a continuous crystal detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3012-3017

  Ling, T ^a,b   Lewellen, T K ^a,c   Miyaoka, R S ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGE CODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

2-DIMENSIONAL MEAN-VARIANCE; LIGHT RESPONSE FUNCTION; LOOK-UP TABLES (LUT) SEARCHING ALGORITHMS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 38549128704     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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