Mean and variance of coincidence counting with deadtime

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 488, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 362-374

  Yu, Daniel F ^a   Fessler, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence counting; Counting processes; Deadtime

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COINCIDENCE COUNTING;

RADIATION COUNTERS;

EID: 0036680311     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(02)00460-6     Document Type: Article

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