Comparison of detector intrinsic spatial resolution characteristics for sensor on the entrance surface and conventional readout designs

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 990-997

  Miyaoka, Robert S ^a   Li, Xiaoli ^b   Lockhart, Cate ^b   Lewellen, Tom K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous crystal; High spatial resolution; Positron emission tomography (PET) detector

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ARRAYS; CONTINUOUS CRYSTAL; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DETECTOR CONFIGURATION; GEIGER MODE OPERATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MONOLITHIC CRYSTAL; MULTI-STEP; PET DETECTORS; PHOTO-SENSORS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; READ-OUT DESIGN; REAR SURFACES; ROW-COLUMN; SIGNAL CHANNELS; SIGNAL GAIN; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SOLID-STATE PHOTODETECTORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

DESIGN; DETECTORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POSITRONS; SENSOR ARRAYS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953700137     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2046675     Document Type: Article

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