Use of internal scintillator radioactivity to calibrate DOI function of a PET detector with a dual-ended-scintillator readout

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 777-787

  Bircher, Chad ^a   Shao, Yiping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

depth of interaction; detector; internal scintillator radioactivity; positron emission tomography; solid state photomultiplier

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; FINISHING; FLOODS; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRONS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

CROSS-SECTION AREA; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DETECTOR CALIBRATION; FUNCTION MEASUREMENTS; LUTETIUM YTTRIUM ORTHOSILICATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SCINTILLATOR READOUT; SOLID-STATE PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856955995     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3676688     Document Type: Article

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