A comparative study of fast photomultipliers for timing experiments and TOF PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1017-1023

  Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^a   Moszyński, Marek ^a   Świderski, Łukasz ^a   Nassalski, Antoni ^a   Syntfeld Kazuch, Agnieszka ^a   Dehaine, Anne Gaelle ^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

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EXCESS NOISE FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FAST PMTS; FAST TIMING; GAMMA SOURCE; LED LIGHT SOURCE; LINEAR DEPENDENCY; LSO CRYSTALS; LSO SCINTILLATOR; SET-UPS; SINGLE PHOTOELECTRONS; TIME JITTER; TIME OF FLIGHT PET; TIME RESOLUTION; TIMING PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; POSITION CONTROL; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SODIUM; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 67649199265     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2011482     Document Type: Article

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