A DOI PET detector having extended X'tal cube structure

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3346-3348

  Inadama, Naoko ^a   Mitsuhashi, Takayuki ^b   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Tashima, Hideaki ^a   Suga, Mikio ^b   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^c   Yamaya, Taiga ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; AXIAL DIRECTION; CRYSTAL BLOCK; DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION DETECTORS; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTERS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PET DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 79960288341     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874425     Document Type: Conference Paper

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