DOI PET detectors with scintillation crystals cut as triangular prisms

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3942-3945

  Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Yamaya, Taiga ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Shibuya, Kengo ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Tsuda, Tomoaki ^b   Ohmura, Atsushi ^c   Yazaki, Yujiro ^d   Osada, Hiroto ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; CRYSTAL SHAPES; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DIMENSIONAL POSITION; ENCODINGS; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES; HORIZONTAL CROSS SECTION; PET DETECTORS; POSITION SENSITIVE PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; TRIANGULAR PRISM;

CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GADOLINIUM; LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PRISMS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649148533     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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