MEICC paper published online (Med Phys)

Congrats to Ken Taguchi on the publication of his journal paper entitled “Multi-energy inter-pixel coincidence counters for charge sharing correction and compensation in photon counting detectors.” The paper can be accessed from here.

In this paper, we proposed a novel detector design to tackle charge sharing problems and the performance assessment using a new Monte Carlo (MC) simulator found it very effective. It was very encouraging so that we have decided to continue to put our efforts for studying and further developing the MEICC design. Stay tuned.

The MC program used in this paper (outlined in Sec. 2.2) is essentially a stochastic version of Photon Counting Toolkit (PcTK). It cascades the following five processes: (1) Photon generation with randomized energies and time intervals for a Poisson distribution, (2) charge sharing based on a randomized location and interaction and detection processes, (3) pulse train generations with electronic noise, (4) comparator signal generation by pulse height analyzers with set energy thresholds, and (5) counting and coincidence processing.