The "X'tal cube" PET detector: 3D scintillation photon detection of a 3D crystal array using MPPCs

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3822-3826

  Yazaki, Yujiro ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^b   Inadama, Naoko ^b   Osada, Hiroto ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^b   Shibuya, Kengo ^c   Yamaya, Taiga ^b   Yoshida, Eiji ^b   Suga, Mikio ^a   Moriya, Takahiro ^d   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^d   Yamashita, Takaji ^d   Kawai, Hideyuki ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D-DETECTORS; CRYSTAL ARRAYS; CRYSTAL BLOCK; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; ISOTROPIC RESOLUTION; MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTERS; PET DETECTORS; PET SCANNER; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; DATA STRUCTURES; GADOLINIUM; GEOMETRY; LIGHT EMISSION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFLECTION; SCINTILLATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77951152114     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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