Temperature dependent operation of PSAPD-based compact gamma camera for SPECT imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2169-2174

  Kim, Sangtaek ^a   McClish, Mickel ^b   Alhassen, Fares ^a   Seo, Youngho ^a   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Gould, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; biomedical nuclear imaging; scintillation detectors; SPECT

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS VOLTAGE; BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; FLOOD SOURCES; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; GAMMA CAMERAS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOUSE HEART; NITROGEN COOLING; NITROGEN GAS; PERFORMANCE VARIATIONS; PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; PIXEL SIZE; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SMALL ANIMAL SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; SPECT; SPECT IMAGING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; CAMERAS; COOLING; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMALS; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTILLATION; TUNGSTEN;

SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054085994     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2165324     Document Type: Article

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