Silicon photomultiplier performance tests in magnetic resonance pulsed fields

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3400-3403

  Hawkes, Rob ^a,b   Lucas, Alun ^b   Stevick, Joseph ^a,b   Llosa, Gabriela ^c   Marcatili, Sara ^c   Piemonte, Claudio ^a,d   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a,c   Carpenter, T Adrian ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

MRI; PET; Photomultiplier; Silicon; SiPM

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESONANCE; SILICON;

LOW BIAS VOLTAGE; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; PULSED GRADIENTS; RADIO FREQUENCY FIELDS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SINGLE PHOTOELECTRONS; SIPM;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349087537     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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