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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2008 Aug 11;53(17):R287–R317. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/R01

Figure 12.

Figure 12

Examples of avalanche photodiodes. Devices are available in a variety of packages in both single pixel and arrays and are being used in several different PET detector designs. Such devices have reasonable gains (~102) and can be used in magnetic fields.