Investigation of liquid xenon detectors for PET: Simultaneous reconstruction of light and charge signals from 511 keV photons

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2889-2891

  Amaudruz, P ^a   Bryman, D ^b   Kurchaninov, L ^a   Lu, P ^b   Marshall, C ^a   Martin, J P ^c   Muennich, A ^a   Retiere, F ^a   Sher, A ^a  

^a TRIUMF   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE SIGNALS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; IONIZATION CHARGE; IONIZATION ELECTRONS; LARGE-AREA AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; LIQUID XENON; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; POSITRON EMISSION; RUNNING CONDITIONS; SCINTILLATION LIGHT; SIMULTANEOUS RECONSTRUCTION; TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER;

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GAMMA RAYS; IONIZATION; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONIZING RADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SNOW; TOMOGRAPHY; XENON;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48149091620     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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