Inverse shielding and mutual exclusion for PET-MR hybrid imaging concerning induced positronium hyperfine splits radiations

Abstract Prevalent PET imaging reconstructs 2γ-photon pairs emitted after an annihilation from para-positronium (p-Ps) and rejects 3γ events from ortho-positronium (o-Ps) as noises. The 3γ/2γ decay ratio is ~ 3/7 in human body theoretically but in fact significantly lower due to pick-off process, he...

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Main Authors: Kelin Wang, M. Saiful Huq
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44303-3