Model of the point spread function of monolithic scintillator PET detectors for perpendicular incidence

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1904-1913

  Maas, Marnix C ^a   Van Der Laan, D J ^a   Van Eijk, Carel W E ^a   Schaart, Dennis R ^a   Beekman, Freek J ^a,b   Bruyndonckx, Peter ^c   Lemàtre, Cedric ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode (APD) array; Detector point spread function (PSF); Monolithic scintillator detector; Positron emission tomography (PET); Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; CRYSTALS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

AVALANCHE PHOTO-DIODE ARRAYS; DETECTOR POINT SPREAD FUNCTIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950574335     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3355889     Document Type: Article

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