A lower-cost high-resolution LYSO detector development for positron emission mammography (PEM)

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2621-2627

  Ramirez, Rocio A ^a   Zhang, Yuxuan ^a   Liu, Shitao ^a   Li, Hongdi ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   An, Shaohui ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Jan, Meei Ling ^b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ENERGY; BLOCK DESIGNS; CHEST WALL; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; DETECTOR BLOCKS; DETECTOR DESIGN; DETECTOR DEVELOPMENT; DETECTOR PANELS; FIELD OF VIEWS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; PACKING FRACTIONS; PANEL EDGES; PEAK-TO-VALLEY RATIOS; PHOTOMULTIPLIER-QUADRANT-SHARING; POSITRON EMISSION; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; REFLECTOR PATTERNS;

CAMERAS; COSTS; DECODING; DESIGN; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; POSITRONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350151210     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2030193     Document Type: Article

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