Fast photomultipliers for TOF PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 173-181

  Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^a   Moszyński, Marek ^a   Świderski, Lukasz ^a   Nassalski, Antoni ^a   Lavoute, Pascal ^b   Kapusta, MacIej ^b  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b PHOTONIS   (France)

Author keywords

Fast PMTs; Fast timing; LSO scintillator; Time of flight PET

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; JITTER; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATIONS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FAST PMTS; FAST TIMING; LSO CRYSTALS; LSO SCINTILLATOR; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; TIME JITTER; TIME OF FLIGHTS; TIME RESOLUTIONS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET; TRANSIT TIME;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 60449110504     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2008992     Document Type: Article

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