Investigation of depth of interaction encoding for a pixelated LSO array with a single multi-channel PMT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2594-2599

  Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Wu, Yibao ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth of interaction; Positron emission tomography (PET); Small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SIZE; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEW APPROACHES; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; PET DETECTORS; PHOSWICH DETECTOR; RESISTOR NETWORK; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING; STANDARD DEVIATION; TWO LAYERS;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION USE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350136716     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2016094     Document Type: Article

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