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Sensitivity booster for DOI-PET scanner by utilizing Compton scattering events between detector blocks

Yoshida et al., 2014

Document ID
8611126222873422206
Author
Yoshida E
Tashima H
Yamaya T
Publication year
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

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In a conventional PET scanner, coincidence events are measured with a limited energy window for detection of photoelectric events in order to reject Compton scatter events that occur in a patient, but Compton scatter events caused in detector crystals are also rejected …
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