Preliminary simulations of NaI(Tl) detectors, and coincidence analysis using event stamping

• DOI: 10.1007/s10967-012-1811-1
• Publication Date: 2012-05-14T08:48:15Z
• Authors: R. Britton; J. Burnett; A. Davies; P. H. Regan
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

This paper discusses preliminary work into the modelling and processing of coincidence measurements, for which a Monte-Carlo simulation and a post-processing program have both been developed. In the current work, a GEANT4 code is used to simulate a pair of NaI(Tl) scintillators, which are used experimentally to both develop the post-processing program and validate the GEANT4 model. This is found to be accurate to within 9% at a confidence level of 93.0% for energies from 30 to 3,000 keV.