Development of a high-resolution and depth-of-interaction capable detector for time-of-flight PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2457-2461

  Krishnamoorthy, Srilalan ^a   Wiener, Rony I ^a   Kaul, Madhuri ^a   Panetta, Joseph ^a   Karp, Joel S ^a   Surti, Suleman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

ANGER-LOGIC DETECTORS; DEPTH OF INTERACTION MEASUREMENTS; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE (PMTS); SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84858652162     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6152667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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