A PET apparatus is provided, which ensures excellent quantitativeness by properly
correcting the influence of scattered radiation while improving the resolution
of a reconstructed image and keeping good photon pair detection sensitivity. A
determining section 52 determines whether a straight line connecting the
light-receiving surfaces 15b of a pair of photon detectors 15a
which have simultaneously detected a photon pair crosses any one of slice collimators
21n. When it is determined that the straight line crosses none
of the slice collimators 21n, the corresponding coincidence counting
information is accumulated by a first coincidence counting information storage
section 53 to generate a signal sinogram. When it is determined that the
straight line crosses one of the slice collimators 21n, the corresponding
coincidence counting information is accumulated by a second coincidence counting
information storage section 54 to generate a scatter sinogram. An image
reconstructing section 60 corrects the influence of scattered components
on the signal sinogram on the basis of the scattered sinogram, and reconstructs
an image on the basis of the corrected signal sinogram.