Timing resolution improvement using DOI information in a four-layer scintillation detector for TOF-PET

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

Volumn 593, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 572-577

  Shibuya, Kengo ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^b   Kobayashi, Tetsuya ^c   Lam, Chihfung ^a   Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Constant fraction discrimination (CFD); Depth of interaction (DOI); Digital sampling; Positron emission tomography (PET); Time of flight (TOF); Timing resolution; TOF shift correction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANNIHILATION RADIATIONS; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION (DOI) DETECTORS; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION (DOI) INFORMATION; ELSEVIER (CO); ENCODING METHODS; PATH LENGTHS; PET SCANNERS; PROPAGATION SPEED; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION DETECTOR; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION.; TIME OF FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TIMING DELAYS; TIMING ERRORS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; UPPER LAYERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALS; ERRORS; REFRACTIVITY; RESOLUTION; SCANNERS;

EID: 47849127160     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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