Novel data evaluation algorithm for Coincident Doppler Broadening Spectroscopy

In Coincident Doppler Broadening Spectroscopy (CDBS) the sum energy of the annihilation photons is checked to be 1022 keV, to validate the measurement of an undisturbed two-gamma electron–positron decay event. The events are stored in a two-dimensional acquisition matrix. A new algorithm is presented, which optimizes the extraction of the one-dimensional CDBS spectrum from this matrix by enhanced background suppression by the use of variable size bins.