Design of a lanthanum bromide detector for time-of-flight PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 II, 2004, Pages 2550-2557

  Kuhn, A ^a   Surti, S ^a   Karp, J S ^a   Raby, R S ^b   Shah, K S ^c   Perkins, A E ^d   Muehllehner, G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Saint Gobain Crystals   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D PET; Anger logic; Gamma ray detectors; Lanthanum detectors; Positron emission tomography; Scintillation detectors; Time resolution; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ANGER LOGIC; GAMMA RAY DETECTORS; LANTHANUM DETECTORS; TIME OF FLIGHT (TOF); TIME RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5744253339     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.835777     Document Type: Article

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