The timing resolution of scintillation-detector systems: Monte Carlo analysis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6495-6513

  Choong, Woon Seng ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FRACTION DISCRIMINATORS; CRYSTAL GEOMETRY; CRYSTAL LENGTH; CRYSTAL SURFACES; DECAY TIME; DETECTOR NOISE; DETECTOR SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GAIN VARIATIONS; LEADING EDGE; LIGHT TRANSPORT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NOISE VARIANCE; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; PHOTO-ELECTRON EMISSION; PHOTOELECTRON YIELD; PHYSICAL FACTORS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PICK-OFF; PIXEL SIZE; RATE FUNCTIONS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; RISETIMES; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SINGLE ELECTRON; THRESHOLD DISCRIMINATORS; TIME POINTS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIMING PERFORMANCE; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TRANSIT TIME SPREAD;

DETECTORS; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRON TUBES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUMINESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SCINTISCANNING; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70449113254     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/21/004     Document Type: Article

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