Improving time resolution in time-of-flight PET

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 648, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Conti, Maurizio ^a  

^a Siemens Molecular Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Scintillators; Time resolution; Time of flight PET; TOF PET

Indexed keywords

PET SCANNER; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT PET; TIME-OF-FLIGHT POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOF PET;

IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION; PHOSPHORS; POSITRONS; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960844502     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.11.171     Document Type: Article

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