@inproceedings{95a8f9d972f644afa2e2f1745635b0f5,
title = "Digital coincidence processing for the RatCAP conscious rat brain PET scanner",
abstract = "The RatCAP has been designed and constructed to image the awake rat brain. In order to maximize system performance, offline digital coincidence data processing algorithms including offset delay correction and prompt and delayed coincidence detection have been developed and validated. With offset delay correction using a singular value decomposition (SVD) technique, overall time resolution was improved from 32.6 ns to 17.6 ns FWHM. The experimental results confirm that the ratio of prompts (or trues) to randoms was improved because a smaller timing window could be used. 18F-fluoride rat bone scan data was reconstructed with our fully 3-D MLEM with a highly accurate detector response model using Monte Carlo simulation.",
keywords = "Awake rat, Offset delay correction, RatCAP, Singular value decomposition (SVD)",
author = "Park, \{S. J.\} and S. Southekal and M. Purschke and Junnarkar, \{S. S.\} and Pratte, \{J. F.\} and V. Radeka and P. O'Connor and Stoll, \{S. P.\} and R. Lecomte and R. Fontaine and Woody, \{C. L.\} and Schlyer, \{D. J.\} and P. Vaska",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.356516",
language = "English",
isbn = "1424405610",
series = "IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3045--3048",
booktitle = "2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium - Conference Record",
note = "2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and 15th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors, Special Focus Workshops, NSS/MIC/RTSD ; Conference date: 29-10-2006 Through 04-11-2006",
}