Depth of interaction calibration for PET detectors with dual-ended readout by PSAPDs

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 433-445

  Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Qi, Jinyi ^a   Wu, Yibao ^a   St James, Sara ^a   Farrell, Richard ^b   Dokhale, Purushottam A ^b   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); CALIBRATION; CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FLOW INTERACTIONS; LUTETIUM; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING; SNOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

AVERAGE ERRORS; CALIBRATION METHODS; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; CRYSTAL SIZES; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; DOI MEASUREMENTS; IMAGE SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; LINE SOURCES; LINEAR DETECTORS; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; NON LINEARITIES; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCES; PET DETECTORS; PET SCANNERS; POSITRON EMISSIONS; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; SMALL VARIATIONS; SOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; TOTAL ENERGIES; TWO DIFFERENT METHODS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ELEMENT; LUTETIUM; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; ERROR; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PITCH; POSITION; POSITRON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149260329     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/2/017     Document Type: Article

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