• Title of article

    New approaches for improvement of TOF-PET

  • Author/Authors

    Brunner، نويسنده , , S.E. and Gruber، نويسنده , , L. and Marton، نويسنده , , J. and Suzuki، نويسنده , , K. and Hirtl، نويسنده , , A.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    560
  • To page
    563
  • Abstract
    We present results of simulations on the influence of photon propagation and the Cherenkov effect on the time resolution of LSO:Ce scintillators. The influence of the scintillator length on the coincidence time resolution is shown. Furthermore, the impact of the depth of interaction on the time resolution, the light output and the arrival time distribution at the photon detector is simulated and it is shown how these information can be used for time walk correction.
  • Keywords
    Time walk , Positron emission tomography (PET) , Time-of-flight (TOF) , Time resolution , Cherenkov effect , Depth of interaction (DOI)
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2010626