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Imaging performance of a multiwire proportional-chamber positron camera

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OSTI ID:6727233
A new design - fully three-dimensional - Positron Camera is presented, made of six MultiWire Proportional Chamber modules arranged to form the lateral surface of a hexagonal prism. A true coincidence rate of 56000 c/s is expected with an equal accidental rate for a 400 ..mu..Ci activity uniformly distributed in a approx. 3 l water phantom. A detailed Monte Carlo program has been used to investigate the dependence of the spatial resolution on the geometrical and physical parameters. A spatial resolution of 4.8 mm FWHM has been obtained for a /sup 18/F point-like source in a 10 cm radius water phantom. The main properties of the limited angle reconstruction algorithms are described in relation to the proposed detector geometry.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA); California Univ., San Francisco (USA). Dept. of Radiology; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA); General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
6727233
Report Number(s):
LBL-14114; CONF-821029-3; ON: DE83000496
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English