Doi determination by rise time discrimination in single-ended readout for TOF PET imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1478-1486

  Wiener, R I ^a   Surti, S ^a   Karp, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth of interaction; lanthanum bromide; PET; time of flight

Indexed keywords

DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LANTHANUM BROMIDE; SCINTILLATOR PIXELS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIMING PERFORMANCE;

DETECTORS; DISPERSIONS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

PIXELS;

EID: 84879359352     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2243166     Document Type: Article

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