Investigation of analog charge multiplexing schemes for SiPM based PET block detectors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3943-3964

  Downie, Evan ^a   Yang, Xin ^a   Peng, Hao ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL CONFIGURATION; CRYSTAL SEPARATION; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; EXPERIMENTS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

MULTIPLEXING;

LUTETIUM; SILICON; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME; PROCEDURES;

LUTETIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON; TIME FACTORS; YTTRIUM;

EID: 84878231078     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/11/3943     Document Type: Article

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