Evaluation of the first silicon photomultiplier matrices for a small animal PET scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3574-3580

  Llośa, Gabriela ^a   Belcari, Nicola ^a   Bisogni, M Giuseppina ^a   Collazuol, Gianmaria ^b   Guerra, Alberto Del ^a   Marcatili, Sara ^a   Barrillon, Pierre ^c   Taille, Christophe De La ^c   Bondil Blin, Sylvie ^c   Dinu, Nicoleta ^a   Melchiorri, Mirko ^d   Tarolli, Alessandro ^d   Piemonte, Claudio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^d ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION; MATRIX; POSITION DETERMINATION; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SCANNING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649184754     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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