We briefly present a design of a new PET scanner based on strips of polymer scintillators arranged in a barrel constituting a large acceptance detector. The solution proposed is based on the superior timing properties of the polymer scintillators. The position and time of the reaction of the gamma quanta in the detector material will be determined based on the time of arrival of light signals to the edges of the scintillator strips.
@article{arxiv.1305.5562,
title = {STRIP-PET: a novel detector concept for the TOF-PET scanner},
author = {P. Moskal and T. Bednarski and P. Białas and M. Ciszewska and E. Czerwiński and A. Heczko and M. Kajetanowicz and Ł. Kapłon and A. Kochanowski and G. Konopka-Cupiał and G. Korcyl and W. Krzemień and K. Łojek and J. Majewski and W. Migdał and M. Molenda and Sz. Niedźwiecki and M. Pałka and Z. Rudy and P. Salabura and M. Silarski and A. Słomski and J. Smyrski and J. Zdebik and M. Zieliński},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.5562},
year = {2013}
}
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Proceedings of the Positron Emission Tomography in Research and Diagnostics conference, Warsaw 16 - 19 May, 2012