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Table 3 Percentage of positrons emitted from the 22Na source that are detected in a Geiger detector after crossing different layers of coating materials compared measurements performed with no coating

From: Feasibility study of a SiPM-fiber detector for non-invasive measurement of arterial input function for preclinical and clinical positron emission tomography

# layers

White acrylic (%)

Teflon (%)

1

84.3 ± 1.1

91.5 ± 0.6

2

85.3 ± 1.4

87.6 ± 0.7

3

78.0 ± 1.0

77.8 ± 0.3

  1. The errors were obtained as the standard deviation of three independent measurements