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PSAPD gamma camera for SPECT imaging

Barber et al., 2004

Document ID
5290346220951873428
Author
Barber W
Funk T
McClish M
Shah K
Hasegawa B
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science 2004.

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Conventional scintillation cameras use scintillators coupled to arrays of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) to produce simultaneous position and energy information for gamma-ray imaging. However, much effort has been devoted to the development of solid state detectors …
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    • G01T1/20—Measuring radiation intensity with scintillation detectors
    • G01T1/2018—Scintillation-photodiode combination
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