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The size of the confinement region is primarily determined by the separation distances between scintillator detectors and the $^{22}$Na source. The source is placed 5mm from the scintillator crystal under investigation. The reference scintillator detector is a further 40mm on the opposite side from the source, unless otherwise stated. As the $^{22}$Na is not a point source, it's finite size of 1mm$^3$ gives a minimum to the confinement region. For a source much closer to the scintillator detector under interest than to the reference detector, the confinement region will tend to the width of the source.   To determine the size of the confinement region we can exploit the fact that the scintillator detector will detect a fixed number of events per unit time if the volume of scintillator crystal does not change. Therefore for the same measurement and same confinement region we can assume a uniform number of events, regardless of DOI. Furthermore if the confinement region passes outside the scintillator crystal, the number of $\gamma\gamma$ events will drop until electronic collimation prevents any correlations from being detected. In this we assume good alignment of the scintillator crystal with respect to the central axis of the coincidence apparatus. We represent this described behaviour as a convolution between a uniform distribution and a normal distribution. The uniform distribution has a width corresponding to the scintillator crystal length and an  amplitude corresponding to the mean number of detected $\gamma\gamma$ events. The FWHM of the normal distribution corresponds to the confinement region; In this case taken as 1mm. As shown in figures \ref{fig:confinement} and \ref{fig:confinement-20} as a black-dotted line this is a valid assumption for our apparatus on the provision the scintillator crystal is properly aligned.