Published 1990 | Version v1
Book

Simulation of scintillating fiber gamma ray detectors for medical imaging

  • 1. Texas Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)
  • 2. Texas Univ., Dallas, TX (United States). Southwestern Medical School

Description

This paper reports on plastic scintillating fibers which have been shown to be effective for high spatial and time resolution of gamma rays. They may be expected to significantly improve the resolution of current medical imaging systems such as PET and SPECT. Monte Carlo simulation of imaging systems using these detectors, provides a means to optimize their performance in this application, as well as demonstrate their resolution and efficiency. Monte Carlo results are presented for PET and SPECT systems constructed using these detectors

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
IEEE Service Center.
Imprint Place
Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Imprint Title
IEEE nuclear science symposium conference record emdash 1990
Imprint Pagination
1636 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 1099-1101.

Conference

Title
1990 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium.
Dates
22-27 Oct 1990.
Place
Arlington, VA (USA).

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-9010220--.