New Approaches for Improvement of TOF-PET

Stefan E. Brunner; Lukas Gruber; Johann Marton; Ken Suzuki; Albert Hirtl

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.028

New Approaches for Improvement of TOF-PET

Instrumentation and Detectors 2015-06-15 v2

Authors: Stefan E. Brunner , Lukas Gruber , Johann Marton , Ken Suzuki , Albert Hirtl

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

TOF-PET time resolution photon propagation Cherenkov effect LSO:Ce scintillators coincidence time resolution depth of interaction time walk correction

Cite

@article{arxiv.1305.1560,
  title  = {New Approaches for Improvement of TOF-PET},
  author = {Stefan E. Brunner and Lukas Gruber and Johann Marton and Ken Suzuki and Albert Hirtl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.1560},
  year   = {2015}
}

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