Silicon photomultipliers for nuclear medical imaging applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7003, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mazzillo, Massimo ^a   Condorelli, Giovanni ^a   Sanfilippo, Delfo ^a   Piazza, Alessandro ^a   Valvo, Giusy ^a   Carbone, Beatrice ^a   Fallica, Giorgio ^a   Pappalardo, Alfio ^b   Cosentino, Luigi ^b   Finocchiaro, Paolo ^b   Corselli, Michele ^c   Suriani, Giuseppe ^c   Lombardo, Salvatore ^c   Billotta, Sergio ^d   Belluso, Massimiliano ^d   Bonanno, Giovanni ^d  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^b INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

^c CNR IMM   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Quenching resistor; Silicon photomultiplier; Single photon avalanche photodiode; Single photon counting

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONMETALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSORS; SILICON; SNOW; STANDARDS; TECHNOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEIGER-MODE AVALANCHE PHOTO-DIODE; NUCLEAR MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTON-DETECTION EFFICIENCY; POSITRON EMISSION; QUENCHING RESISTOR; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SILICON PLANAR TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; ST MICROELECTRONICS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 50249123094     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.780204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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