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IONIZING RADIATION DETECTORS FOR MEDICAL IMAGING

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Acknowledgments

We would like to explicitly acknowledge the following Publishers, Companies and Authors for the granted permission for the reproduction of the following figures and table in this book:

• the Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., for Figs. 2.4, 9.6, 10.4;

• the Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, for Fig. 2.6;

• the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements, for Figs. 2.13, 2.14;

• the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, for Figs. 2.16, 3.21, 3.22, 3.24, 3.27, 3.48, 3.49, 3.50b, 3.51, 3.52, 3.53, 3.54, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 10.14, 10.15, 10.16, 10.35, 10.50, 10.53, 10.54, 10.55,...