A study of the timing properties of position-sensitive avalanche photodiodes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5155-5172

  Wu, Yibao ^a   Ng, Thomas S C ^b   Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Shah, Kanai ^c   Farrell, Richard ^c   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION METHOD; CRYSTAL PAIRS; EXCITATION POSITION; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; POSITION SENSITIVE; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; TIMING ALIGNMENT; TIMING OFFSETS; TIMING PERFORMANCE; TIMING PROPERTIES; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TIMING SHIFT;

ALIGNMENT; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WINDOWS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME;

ELECTRODES; LIGHT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350514271     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/17/006     Document Type: Article

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