Counting rate performance measurement of newly developed Si/CdTe Compton camera for biological and medical applications

In this study, the counting rate performance of a newly developed Compton camera for biological and medical applications was investigated; further, the sensitivity profile of this highly complicated imaging system was measured using
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Na and
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F point gamma-ray sources.
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Na was used to assess the imaging ability of this camera against the point source, and the intense
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F point source of 200 MBq was used to measure the sensitivity profiles of this camera for a range of counting rates over a short period.