Design considerations of phoswich detectors for high resolution positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 182-188

  Eriksson, Lars ^a,b,c,d   Melcher, Charles L ^b   Eriksson, Marita ^c   Rothfuss, Harold ^a,b   Grazioso, Ron ^a   Aykac, Mehmet ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inorganic scintillators; LSO; Nuclear imaging; Nuclear medical applications; PET instrumentation; Phoswich detectors; Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation detectors; Scintillation mechanisms; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTS; IONIZATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; LSO; NUCLEAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PET INSTRUMENTATION; PHOSWICH DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION MECHANISMS; SCINTILLATORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 60449095984     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2010255     Document Type: Article

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