Calibration procedure for a continuous miniature crystal element (cMiCE) detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1023-1028

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

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

^b PNC Bank   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Continuous crystal; High spatial resolution; PET detector

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CALIBRATION PROCESS; COINCIDENCE COUNTING RATES; CONTINUOUS CRYSTAL; FOUR-POINT; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LOOK UP TABLE; LYSO CRYSTALS; MINIATURE CRYSTALS; MULTI-SOURCE DEVICES; MULTIPLE POINTS; PET DETECTOR; PET DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPEED-UP FACTORS; SPEED-UPS; STATISTICS-BASED POSITIONING ALGORITHM;

CALIBRATION; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; SPEED;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77953715471     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2043261     Document Type: Article

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