Development of Pr:LuAG scintillator array and assembly for positron emission mammography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1492-1495

  Yanagida, Takayuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Akira ^a   Yokota, Yuui ^a   Kamada, Kei ^b   Usuki, Yoshiyuki ^b   Yamamoto, Seiichi ^c   Miyake, Masayasu ^a   Baba, Mamoru ^a   Kumagai, Kazuaki ^a   Sasaki, Katsuhisa ^a   Ito, Masatoshi ^a,d   Abe, Naoto ^a   Fujimoto, Yutaka ^a   Maeo, Shuji ^a   Furuya, Yuki ^a   Tanaka, Hidehiko ^a   Fukabori, Akihiro ^a   Dos Santos, Targino Rodrigues ^a   Takeda, Motoharu ^e   Ohuchi, Noriaki ^f  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

^c KOBE CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d Sendai Medical Imaging Clinic   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography (PET); Praseodymium; Radiation detectors; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST PHANTOM; GAMMA CAMERAS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; ONE CAMERA; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; POLISHING PROCESSS; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; PROTOTYPE INSTRUMENT; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; SENSOR HEAD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CAMERAS; CRYSTAL CUTTING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT EMISSION; NEUTRON DETECTORS; POSITRONS; PRASEODYMIUM; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; SENSORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953954505     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2032265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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