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Hideaki Tashima1, Takumi Nishina2,3, Sodai Takyu2

  • 1National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan. tashima.hideaki@qst.go.jp.

Radiological Physics and Technology
|March 21, 2023
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Summary

This study found that treating multi-interaction events as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) events exclusively improves image quality in Compton PET imaging. Utilizing these recovered PET events enhances spatial resolution without increasing noise levels.

Keywords:
Compton imagingEvent selectionImage reconstructionMonte Carlo simulationPET

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