Sensitivity improvement of time-of-flight (ToF)-PET detector through recovery of Compton scattered annihilation photons

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3178-3183

  Wagadarikar, Ashwin A ^a   Ivan, Adrian ^a   Dolinsky, Sergei ^a   McDaniel, David L ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNIHILATION PHOTONS; DETECTOR SENSITIVITY; RADIATION TRANSPORT; READOUT ELECTRONICS; RECOVERY ALGORITHMS; SCINTILLATOR MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY IMPROVEMENTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPTON SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84881582360     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551725     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

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