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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])
Block detector system + Anger logic [3]