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Investigation of depth of interaction encoding for a pixelated LSO array with a single multi-channel PMT

Yang et al., 2009

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7731186903129090941
Author
Yang Y
Wu Y
Cherry S
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IEEE transactions on nuclear science

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A new approach to depth of interaction (DOI) encoding for a pixelated LSO array using a single multi-channel PMT was investigated. In this method the DOI information was estimated by taking advantage of optical crosstalk between LSO elements and examining …
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