In this paper we estimate the time resolution of the J-PET scanner built from plastic scintillators. We incorporate the method of signal processing using the Tikhonov regularization framework and the Kernel Density Estimation method. We obtain simple, closed-form analytical formulas for time resolutions. The proposed method is validated using signals registered by means of the single detection unit of the J-PET tomograph built out from 30 cm long plastic scintillator strip. It is shown that the experimental and theoretical results, obtained for the J-PET scanner equipped with vacuum tube photomultipliers, are consistent.
@article{arxiv.1706.00924,
title = {Calculation of time resolution of the J-PET tomograph using the Kernel Density Estimation},
author = {L. Raczyński and W. Wiślicki and W. Krzemień and P. Kowalski and D. Alfs and T. Bednarski and P. Białas and C. Curceanu and E. Czerwiński and K. Dulski and A. Gajos and B. Głowacz and M. Gorgol and B. Hiesmayr and B. Jasińska and D. Kamińska and G. Korcyl and T. Kozik and N. Krawczyk and E. Kubicz and M. Mohammed and M. Pawlik-Niedźwiecka and S. Niedźwiecki and M. Pałka and Z. Rudy and O. Rundel and N. G. Sharma and M. Silarski and J. Smyrski and A. Strzelecki and A. Wieczorek and B. Zgardzińska and M. Zieliński and P. Moskal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00924},
year = {2017}
}