Report on the MADEIRA PET probe

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1755-1758

  Studen, Andrej ^a,e   Chesi, Enrico ^b   Cindro, Vladimir ^a,e   Clinthorne, Neal H ^c   Cochran, Eric ^b   Grošičar, Borut ^a,e   Honscheid, Klaus ^b   Huh, S S ^c   Kagan, Harris ^b   Lacasta, Carlos ^d   Llosá, Gabriela ^d   Linhart, Vladimir ^d   Mikuž, Marko ^a,e   Stankova, Vera ^d   Weilhammer, Peter ^b   Žontar, Dejan ^a,e  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; COUNT RATES; CURRENT LIMITS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FILLING FACTOR; HIGH RESISTIVITY SILICON; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PET DATA; PET PROBE; POINT SOURCES; PROXIMITY FOCUS; REGION OF INTEREST; SENSITIVE MATERIALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STOPPING POWER;

DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PROBES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON DETECTORS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 79960298634     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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