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

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

Block detector system + Anger logic [3]

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ESTRO Teaching Course Advanced Imaging: PET – Basic Principles