1 mm isotropic detector resolution achieved by X'tal cube detector

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3093-3096

  Mitsuhashi, Takayuki ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^b   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^b   Yoshida, Eiji ^b   Murayama, Hideo ^b   Kawai, Hideyuki ^c   Suga, Mikio ^c   Haneishi, Hideaki ^c   Shibuya, Kengo ^c   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^d   Yamaya, Taiga ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL BLOCK; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ISOTROPIC DETECTORS; LYSO CRYSTALS; MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTERS; MULTIPLE SURFACES; PET DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS; SENSITIVE AREA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE DIMENSIONS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 79960323816     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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