Design of a high resolution, monolithic crystal, PET/MRI detector with DOI positioning capability

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4688-4692

  Miyaoka, Robert S ^a   Li, Xiaoli ^b   Lockhart, Cate ^a   Lewellen, Tom K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIZES; CHANNEL ARRAYS; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DETECTOR CONFIGURATION; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING; GEIGER MODE OPERATION; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MICRO-PIXEL; MONOLITHIC CRYSTAL; MRI SCANNERS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-STEP; PET DETECTORS; PHOTO-SENSORS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; ROW-COLUMN; SIGNAL CHANNELS; SIGNAL GAIN; SOLID-STATE PHOTODETECTORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

DESIGN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LUTETIUM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

SENSORS;

EID: 67649184084     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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