Patent ID: 11921064
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method of processing data from a detector arrangement, wherein the detector arrangement includes at least one array of detectors, wherein the method comprises:
linking or associating each detector in the array with one or more other detector in the array to define a region of interest (RoI), each RoI including a subset of the detectors in the array;
detecting, by the array of detectors, photons emitted from an object
receiving, by a coincidence trigger unit, detection signals from at least two of the detectors;
registering or determining a coincidence if the coincidence trigger unit receives detection signals from two different detectors forming part of the same RoI and indicating detection of substantially back-to-back co-linear and co-incident photons in the RoI;
transmitting, by the coincidence trigger unit, trigger information indicative of a coincidence signal to each of the two detectors in response to registering or determining the coincidence; and
transmitting or publishing, by the two detectors, event data relating to the registered coincidence to one of a plurality of data acquisition (DAQ) computers.