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Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2015 Sep 9;60(18):7309–7338. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/18/7309

Table 8.

Comparison of the FOM for three scintillators using single-ended and double-ended readout.

	LSO	LaBr₃ : Ce	Ultra-fast
Full energy detection efficiency	0.6^a	0.4^a	0.5^b
Total number of photoelectrons N_pe	4000	7400	4000^b
Single-ended surface B CRT W_SB (ns fwhm)	0.16	0.14	0.070^b
Single-ended surface B figure of merit (FOM)¹	14.6	7.4	23^b
Double-ended CRT W_WAB (ns fwhm)	0.111	0.072	0.020^b
Double-ended figure of merit (FOM)²	21.0	14.4	81b

Typical values for purposes of comparison.

Hypothetical values.