Energy, timing and position resolution studies with 16-pixel silicon photomultiplier matrices for small animal PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2586-2593

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

^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

G APDs; Silicon photomultiplier; Small animal PET

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CRYSTAL; G-APDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MATRIX; POSITION DETERMINATION; POSITION RESOLUTION; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SMALL ANIMAL PET; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

ANIMALS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYSTALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PIXELS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350151196     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2030191     Document Type: Article

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