First coincidences in pre-clinical Compton camera prototype for medical imaging

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 531, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 258-264

  Studen, A ^a   Burdette, D ^b   Chesi, E ^b   Cindro, V ^a   Clinthorne, N H ^c   Dulinski, W ^d   Fuster, J ^e   Han, L ^f   Kagan, H ^b   Lacasta, C ^e   Llosa G ^e   Marques, A C ^g,h   Malakhov, N ^b   Meier, D ⁱ   Mikuz M ^a   Park, S J ^f   Roe, S ^j   Rogers, W L ^c   Steinberg, J ^b   Weilhammer, P ^j   Wilderman, S J ^f   Zhang, L ^f   Zontar D ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^f The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^g CENTRO DE FÍSICA NUCLEAR DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^h INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

ⁱ Ideas ASA   (Norway)

^j CERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Compton camera; Medical imaging; Silicon pad detectors; Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Tracking and position sensitive detectors

Indexed keywords

COMPTON CAMERAS; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SILICON PAD DETECTORS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT); TRACKING DETECTORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES; RELIABILITY; SCINTILLATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY;

SILICON;

EID: 4544277705     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.06.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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