Novel Positron Emission Tomography system, based on plastic scintillators, is developed by the J-PET collaboration. In order to optimize geometrical configuration of built device, advanced computer simulations are performed. Detailed study is presented of background given by accidental coincidences and multiple scattering of gamma quanta.
@article{arxiv.1502.04532,
title = {Multiple scattering and accidental coincidences in the J-PET detector simulated using GATE package},
author = {P. Kowalski and P. Moskal and W. Wiślicki and L. Raczyński and T. Bednarski and P. Białas and J. Bułka and E. Czerwiński and A. Gajos and A. Gruntowski and D. Kamińska and Ł. Kapłon and A. Kochanowski and G. Korcyl and J. Kowal and T. Kozik and W. Krzemień and E. Kubicz and Sz. Niedźwiecki and M. Pałka and Z. Rudy and P. Salabura and N. G. Sharma and M. Silarski and A. Słomski and J. Smyrski and A. Strzelecki and A. Wieczorek and I. Wochlik and M. Zieliński and N. Zoń},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.04532},
year = {2015}
}