A practical method for depth of interaction determination in monolithic scintillator PET detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4135-4145

  Van Dam, Herman T ^a   Seifert, Stefan ^a   Vinke, Ruud ^b   Dendooven, Peter ^b   Löhner, Herbert ^b   Beekman, Freek J ^a   Schaart, Dennis R ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; CALIBRATION DATA; CLUSTERING APPROACH; DECODING METHODS; DEGREE OF SIMILARITY; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; GAMMA PHOTONS; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT TRANSPORT; LYSO:CE; MULTI-ANODE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; MULTI-PIXEL; PEAK INTENSITY; PET DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PRACTICAL METHOD; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; REFERENCE DATA; SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR; SIGNAL VARIANCE;

LIGHT; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SCINTILLATION; SENSORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 79960381852     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/13/025     Document Type: Article

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