New 9 × 9 and 10 × 10 BGO block detector for human PET using PMT quadrant sharing design

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 457-462

  Liu, Shitao ^b   Liu, Jiguo ^b   Zhang, Yuxuan ^b   Kim, Soonseok ^b   Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Ramirez, Rocio ^b   Wang, Yu ^a,b   Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Photomultiplier quadrant sharing (PQS); Position sensitive detector; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DECODING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTOMULTIPLIER -QUADRANT-SHARING (PQS); POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 39049095764     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.912879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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