Third MEICC paper published in Medical Physics

Congrats to Ken Taguchi and Jan S. Iwanczyk on the publication of their journal paper entitled, “Assessment of multi-energy inter-pixel coincidence counters at the presence of charge sharing and pulse pileup: A simulation study.” The paper can be accessed from here (it is an open access, thanks to JHU).

The main contribution of this paper is as follows. (1) We used Monte Carlo (MC) simulation to compare the performance of MEICC with those of various competing methods such as analog charge summing (ACS), digital count summing (DCS), one coincidence counter (1CC), and the conventional pulse height analysis. (2) Our study showed that MEICC provided the best normalized Cramér–Rao lower bounds for all of the spectral tasks at all of the count rates (except that ACS had a better result at a few ultra-low-count rates).