[Gate-users] total computation time?

[Simon Stute]

Hi,

In SPECT yes, strictly.
In PET, too much activity will produce much coincidences at the same time,
producing more multiple, dead-time, pill-up, etc ... so digitizer time will
grow quickly.

Cheers,
Simon

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:08 PM, sebnem erturk <sebnem.erturk at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Does used radiaoactivity amount" affect linearly total computation time?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sebnem& Giacomo
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