Impact of laser-processed X'tal cube detectors on PET imaging in a one-pair prototype system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3172-3180

  Yoshida, Eiji ^a   Hirano, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tashima, Hideaki ^a   Inadama, Naoko ^a   Nishikido, Fumihiko ^a   Moriya, Takahiro ^b   Omura, Tomohide ^b   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^b   Murayama, Hideo ^a   Yamaya, Taiga ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detector instrumentation; Pet

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; DETECTOR INSTRUMENTATIONS; FILTERED BACK-PROJECTION; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DETECTORS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84885961100     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2280631     Document Type: Article

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