Energy and timing response of six prototype scintillators for TOF-PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1404-1408

  Kyba, Christopher C M ^b   Glodo, Jarek ^a,c   Van Loef, Edgar V D ^c   Karp, Joel S ^a,b   Shah, Kanai S ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Halides; LuI3; Positron emission tomography; Scintillation; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PLASTIC BOTTLES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

LIGHT OUTPUT; RECENT DEVELOPMENT; SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS;

SCINTILLATION;

BOTTLES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HALIDES; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; PROTOTYPES; SCANNERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; WORK STUDY;

EID: 45849084310     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.921939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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