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Detector Designs used in PET
Anger detector:
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Large scintillator crystal glued to
array of PMTs
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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])
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Block detector system + Anger logic [3]