• DocumentCode
    863910
  • Title

    A Positron Tomograph Employing a One Dimension BGO Scintillation Camera

  • Author

    Burnham, C. ; Bradshaw, J. ; Kaufman, D. ; Chesler, D. ; Brownell, G.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Physics Research Laboratory Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts 02114
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1983
  • Firstpage
    661
  • Lastpage
    664
  • Abstract
    A detector employing a pseudo-continuous ring of BGO and analog type position sensing has been constructed. It is fabricated using 360 2 × 3 × 0.4cm BGO detector elements, a light guide 1 × 1.6 × 51cm ID and 90 2cm diameter PM tubes. The position of a scintillation event is identified using logic based on a maximum likelihood estimator. A stationary high spatial resolution high detection efficiency tomograph is achieved using this approach.
  • Keywords
    Cameras; Chemical elements; Crystals; Face detection; Logic; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Positrons; Solid scintillation detectors; Spatial resolution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1983.4332350
  • Filename
    4332350
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=863910