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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Deliv Transl Res. 2012 Jun;2(3):201–209. doi: 10.1007/s13346-012-0073-3

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Photon pair data acquisition in PET. Positron annihilates with emission of two gamma photons traveling in opposite directions along the same line. It is impossible to determine whether photon pair p1–1/p1−1 came from point a, or point b, or any point in between. However, it is possible to correct the data for photon absorption in the tissues based on experimentally determined attenuation values