Application of WLS strips for position determination in strip PET tomograph based on plastic scintillators
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Jerzy Smyrski
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Paweł Moskal
Abstract
A method of the determination of a γ-quantum absorption point in a plastic scintillator block using a matrix of wavelength-shifting (WLS) strips is proposed. An application of this method for the improvement of position resolution in newly proposed positron emission tomography (PET) detectors based on plastic scintillators is presented. The method enables to reduce parallax errors in the reconstruction of images, which occurs in the presently used PET scanners.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge the technical and administrative support by M. Adamczyk, T. Gucwa-Rys, A. Heczko, M. Kajetanowicz, G. Konopka-Cupiał, J. Majewski, W. Migdał, and A. Misiak and the financial support by the Polish National Center for Development and Research through grant INNOTECH-K1/IN1/64/159174/NCBR/12, the Foundation for Polish Science through the MPD program, and the EU and MSHE Grant No. POIG.02.03.00-161 00-013/09.
Conflict of interest statement
Authors’ conflict of interest disclosure: The authors stated that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this article. Research support played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared
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- Mini Review
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- Computer Science Towards Medicines
- Application of WLS strips for position determination in strip PET tomograph based on plastic scintillators
- Depth of interaction determination with temperature gradient function in continuous bismuth germanate oxide (BGO) crystal
- Simulations of γ quanta scattering in a single module of the J-PET detector
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