Performance evaluation of a small OpenPET prototype

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3137-3141

  Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Mashino, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Yamaya, Taiga ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Espec Techno KK   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNT RATE PERFORMANCE; COUNT RATES; CRYSTAL ELEMENTS; DETECTOR BLOCKS; GAIN CORRECTION; HIGH SENSITIVITY; IN-SITU MONITORING; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; POINT SOURCES; RING DIAMETER; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY;

EXPERIMENTS; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SODIUM;

DETECTORS;

EID: 79960321638     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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