Published December 21, 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

New approaches for improvement of TOF-PET

  • 1. Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna (Austria)

Description

We present results of simulations on the influence of photon propagation and the Cherenkov effect on the time resolution of LSO:Ce scintillators. The influence of the scintillator length on the coincidence time resolution is shown. Furthermore, the impact of the depth of interaction on the time resolution, the light output and the arrival time distribution at the photon detector is simulated and it is shown how these information can be used for time walk correction

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.028

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.028;
arXiv
arXiv:1305.1560v2;
PII
S0168-9002(13)00556-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
732
Journal Page Range
p. 560-563
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
13. Vienna conference on instrumentation
Dates
11-15 Feb 2013
Place
Vienna (Austria)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45070383
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CORRECTIONS; PHOTONS; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SIMULATION; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MASSLESS PARTICLES; RESOLUTION; TIMING PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY

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