Experimental characterization of the Clear-PEM scanner spectrometric performance

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Bugalho, R ^a   Carrico B ^a   Ferreira, S ^a   Frade, M ^a   Ferreira, M ^a   Moura, R ^a   Ortigo C ^a   Pinheiro, F ^a   Rodrigues, P ^a   Rolo, I ^a   Silva, C ^a   Trindade, A ^a   Varela, J ^a,b,c  

^a Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Front end electronics for detector readout; Gamma camera, SPECT, PET PET CT, coronary CT angiography (CTA); Photon detectors for UV, Visible and IR photons (solid state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si PMTs, CCDs, BCCDsetc)

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER IMAGING; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHIES; DETECTOR READOUT; ELECTRONICS SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; PIN DIODE; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CALIBRATION; DESIGN; DETECTORS; DISPERSIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SCANNING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTROMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

PIXELS;

EID: 71049180272     PISSN: 17480221     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/4/10/P10011     Document Type: Article

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