Evaluation of position sensitive photomultiplier for time-of-flight positron emission tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1919-1923

  Kim, Chang Lyong ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); LIGHT; PHOTOCATHODES; POLYCRYSTALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

CRYSTAL DIMENSION; MULTI-CRYSTAL ARRAYS; RESISTIVE NETWORKS; SURFACE DIMENSION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIMING CAPABILITY;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 38649094302     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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