• Title of article

    A small animal PET prototype based on LSO crystals read out by avalanche photodiodes

  • Author/Authors

    Fries، نويسنده , , O. and Bradbury، نويسنده , , S.M. and Gebauer، نويسنده , , J. and Holl، نويسنده , , I. and Lorenz، نويسنده , , E. and Renker، نويسنده , , D. and Ziegler، نويسنده , , S.I.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    220
  • To page
    224
  • Abstract
    Feasibility studies of modern avalanche photodiodes (APDs), coupled to LSO scintillation crystals, have given encouraging results for new detector designs in positron emission tomography (PET). We constructed an experimental set-up for measuring the performance of new arrays of 2 × 8 detector channels of APD/LSO. This gantry allows us to simulate a complete ring of these array detectors and will ultimately serve as a simple and flexible small animal PET prototype.
  • Keywords
    Positron emission tomography , Avalanche photodiode , Array detector
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2000866