Recent development of TlBr gamma-ray detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4 PART 2, 2011, Pages 1987-1991

  Hitomi, Keitaro ^a   Tada, Tsutomu ^a   Kim, Seong Yun ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Tanaka, Tomonobu ^b   Shoji, Tadayoshi ^b   Yamazaki, Hiromichi ^a   Ishii, Keizo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamma ray detectors; position sensitive detectors; positron emission tomography; semiconductor radiation detectors; single photon emission computed tomography; thallium bromide

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAY DETECTOR; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR RADIATION DETECTORS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; THALLIUM BROMIDE;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; THALLIUM;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 84860389098     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2123115     Document Type: Article

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