Investigating the temporal resolution limits of scintillation detection from pixellated elements: Comparison between experiment and simulation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 735-756

  Spanoudaki, V Ch ^a,b   Levin, C S ^a,b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE TIMING; CRYSTAL ELEMENTS; CRYSTAL VOLUME; DECAY TIME; DETECTOR ELEMENTS; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; LIGHT OUTPUT; LIGHT YIELD; PET DETECTORS; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; PHYSICAL MODELING; POLISHED SURFACES; SCINTILLATION DECAY; SCINTILLATION DETECTION; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION LIGHT; SIMULATED DATA; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME UNCERTAINTY;

CRYSTALS; MODELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SURFACE TREATMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79551693751     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/3/013     Document Type: Article

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