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Summary
ESTRO Teaching Course Advanced Imaging: PET – Basic Principles
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Positron emitter used as
radioactive tracer in the patient
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Use of collimators to generate
‚image slices‘
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Detection of γ-quanta in
scintillation crystal
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Better resolution due to Anger
logic
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Signal amplification using PMTs
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Image reconstruction