Silicon photomultipliers and SiPM matrices as photodetectors in nuclear medicine

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3220-3223

  Llosá, Gabriela ^b   Belcari, Nicola ^b   Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina ^b   Collazuol, Gianmaria ^c   Del Guerra, Alberto ^a,b   Marcatili, Sara ^b   Moehrs, Sascha ^a,b   Piemonte, Claudio ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^d ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Silicon photomultipliers; Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

NONMETALS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVE AREAS; DETECTOR HEADS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LSO CRYSTALS; NEW DEVICES; PET SCANNERS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349122217     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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