Phantom experiments on a PSAPD-based compact gamma camera with submillimeter spatial resolution for small animal SPECT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5 PART 1, 2010, Pages 2518-2523

  Kim, Sangtaek ^a   McClish, Mickel ^b   Alhassen, Fares ^a   Seo, Youngho ^a   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Gould, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; biomedical nuclear imaging; scintillation detectors; single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; DETECTOR MODULE; GAMMA CAMERAS; GAMMA RAY DETECTOR; HIGH GAIN; HIGH-ENERGY RESOLUTION; MOUSE HEART; NITROGEN GAS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PINCUSHION DISTORTION; PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; PROJECTION IMAGE; RADIATION EVENT; READOUT ALGORITHM; READOUT CHANNELS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SMALL ANIMAL; SMALL ANIMAL SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECT SYSTEM; SUBMILLIMETERS;

ANIMALS; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; TUNGSTEN;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953818264     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2056386     Document Type: Article

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