Optimizing PET DOI resolution with crystal coating and length

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5 PART 1, 2010, Pages 2468-2474

  Salvador, Samuel ^a   Wurtz, Jacques ^a   Brasse, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Axial geometry; Depth of Interaction; instrumentation; preclinical PET; spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

AXIAL GEOMETRY; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; PRECLINICAL PET; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ANIMALS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CRYSTALS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INSTRUMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SODIUM;

COATINGS;

EID: 79953821129     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2060210     Document Type: Article

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