Impact of the Fano Factor on Position and Energy Estimation in Scintillation Detectors

The Fano factor for an integer-valued random variable is defined as the ratio of its variance to its mean. Light from various scintillation crystals have been reported to have Fano factors from sub-Poisson (Fano factor < 1) to super-Poisson (Fano factor > 1). For a given mean, a smaller Fano f...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on nuclear science. - 1988. - 62(2015), 1 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 42-56
1. Verfasser: Bora, Vaibhav (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Barrett, Harrison H, Jha, Abhinav K, Clarkson, Eric
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on nuclear science
Schlagworte:Journal Article Cramér-Rao bound Fano factor Fisher information matrix energy estimation energy resolution maximum-likelihood estimator position estimation scintillators spatial resolution
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