Depth of interaction with a 3-dimensional checkerboard arrangement LSO-LSO block

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 971-975

  Bauer, Florian ^a,b   Aykac, Mehmet ^a   Eriksson, Lars ^a,b   Schmand, Matthias ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Block detector; Depth of interaction; Lutetium oxy orthosilicate (LSO); Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; BLOCK DETECTORS; CO-DOPING; CURRENT DETECTOR; DECAY TIME; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION INFORMATIONS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FAST TIMING; FIELD OF VIEWS; LIGHT GUIDES; LIGHT OUTPUT; LUTETIUM OXY-ORTHOSILICATE (LSO); LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; PARALLAX ERROR; PHOSWICH DETECTOR; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; PULSE SHAPE DISCRIMINATION; SCINTILLATOR MATERIALS; SCINTILLATOR PIXELS; SHORT DECAY TIME; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

CALCIUM; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; ELECTRONS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; GAMMA RAYS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT EMISSION; PIXELS; POSITRONS; SCINTILLATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953712489     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2041070     Document Type: Article

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