Development of a position-sensitive setector for TOF-PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2455-2459

  Moriya, T ^a   Omura, T ^a   Watanabe, M ^a   Yamashita, T ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Position sensitive PMT; Positron emission tomography (PET); Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

ANODES; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEGATIVE IONS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SODIUM; TIME MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

CHANNEL DYNODES; CHANNEL OUTPUTS; COINCIDENCE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; CRYSTAL ELEMENTS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; ENERGY SIGNALS; FLAT PANELS; LYSO CRYSTALS; METAL CANS; NON UNIFORMS; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBES; POINT SOURCES; POSITION SENSITIVE PMT; POSITION SIGNALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); READOUT CIRCUITS; SENSITIVE DETECTORS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; VARIABLE GAINS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 57849150009     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2002437     Document Type: Article

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