Effects of reflector and crystal surface on the performance of a depth-encoding PET detector with dual-ended readout

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ren, Silin ^a   Yang, Yongfeng ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

crystal surface; depth of interaction; positron emission tomography; reflector; small animal imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CRYSTALS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FLOODS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRONS; REFLECTION; SCANNING; SIGNAL ENCODING;

CRYSTAL SURFACES; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; DEPTH-ENCODING PET DETECTORS; LIGHT COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; REFLECTOR; SMALL ANIMAL IMAGING; SMALL ANIMAL POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHIES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; DUAL ENDED READOUT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE SCINTILLATOR ARRAY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SCINTILLATION; TISSUE MICROARRAY; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PROCEDURES;

LUTETIUM; LUTETIUM ORTHOSILICATE; SILICATE;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LUTETIUM; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICATES;

EID: 84902266283     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4881097     Document Type: Article

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