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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2016
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Yannick Berker, Witten, DE;
Volkmar Schulz, Wuerselen, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method for determining the position of a scintillation event in a radiation particle detector with multiple scintillator element locations which are configured to emit a burst of photons responsive to a radiation particle being absorbed at the scintillator element location and with a plurality of photosensors () optically coupled to said scintillator element locations, comprising the steps of determining, for each of the photosensors (), a triggering probability indicative of the probability of said photosensor () measuring a number of photons that exceeds a predetermined triggering threshold; measuring a photon distribution with the photosensors () indicative of the number of photons incident on the individual photosensors (); calculating, for each of the scintillator element locations, a likelihood that a scintillation event with a predetermined energy value took place in said scintillator element location based on the measured photon distribution and the triggering probability of each of the photosensors (); and identifying the scintillator element location having the maximum likelihood.