@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00044872,
 author = {Lam, ChihFung and Hagiwara, Naoki and Obi, Takashi and Yamaya, Taiga and Murayama, Hideo and et.al and Ｌａｍ ＣｈｉｈＦｕｎｇ and 萩原 直樹 and 小尾 高史 and 山谷 泰賀 and 村山 秀雄},
 issue = {3},
 journal = {Japanese Journal of Medical Physics},
 month = {},
 note = {New PET scanners utilize depth-ofintertaction (DOI) information to improve image resolution, partocularly at the edge of field-of-view while maintaining high detector sensitivity. However, the inter-crystal scatter (ICS) effect cannot be neglected in DOI scanners due to the use of smaller crystals. ICS is the phenomenon wherein there are multiple scintillations for irradiation of a gamma photon due to Compton scater in detecting crystals. In the case of ICS, only one scintillation position is approximated for detectors with Anger-type logic calculation. This causes an error in position detection and ICS worsens the image contrast, particularly for smaller hotspots. In this study, we propose to model an ICS probability by using a Monte Carlp simulator. The probability is given as a statistical rekatonship between the gamma photon first interaction crystal pair and the detected crystal pair. It is then used to improve the system matrix of a statistical image reconstruction algorithm, such as ML-EM in order to correct for the position error caused by ICS. We apply the proposed method to simulated data of the jPET-D4, which is a four-layer DOI PET being developed at the National Instisute of Radiological sciences. Our computer simulations show that  image contrast is recovered successfully by the proposed method.},
 pages = {118--130},
 title = {An Inter-crystal Scatter Correction Method for DOI-PET Image Reconstruction},
 volume = {26},
 year = {2006}
}