Photo-detectors for time of flight positron emission tomography (ToF-PET)

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 10484-10505

  Spanoudaki, Virginia Ch ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography; Silicon photo multipliers; Time of flight

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; ARRIVAL TIME; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE (PMTS); PROPER DESIGN; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME RESOLUTION;

MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SILICON;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SILICON;

EID: 84871085103     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s101110484     Document Type: Review

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