2016_Imaging for Physicists

Detector Designs used in PET Anger detector: • Large scintillator crystal glued to array of PMTs • Weighted centroid positioning

algorithm used to estimate interaction position within the detector

Block detector Siemens-CTI ECAT 951, 8x8 block BGO with 4 PMTs (from [2])

ESTRO Teaching Course Advanced Imaging: PET – Basic Principles Block detector system + Anger logic [3]

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