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- 2017년 04월호
[Phys Med Biol.] Development of capacitive multiplexing circuit for SiPM-based time-of-flight (TOF) PET detector.서강대/ 최혁준, 최용*, 정진호*
- 출처
- Phys Med Biol.
- 등재일
- 2017 Apr 7
- 저널이슈번호
- 62(7):N120-N133. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa5f9b. Epub 2017 Mar 6.
- 내용
Abstract
There has been great interest in developing a time-of-flight (TOF) PET to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of PET image relative to that of non-TOF PET. Silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays have attracted attention for use as a fast TOF PET photosensor. Since numerous SiPM arrays are needed to construct a modern human PET, a multiplexing method providing both good timing performance and high channel reduction capability is required to develop a SiPM-based TOF PET. The purpose of this study was to develop a capacitive multiplexing circuit for the SiPM-based TOF PET. The proposed multiplexing circuit was evaluated by measuring the coincidence resolving time (CRT) and the energy resolution as a function of the overvoltage using three different capacitor values of 15, 30, and 51 pF. A flood histogram was also obtained and quantitatively assessed. Experiments were performed using a [Formula: see text] array of [Formula: see text] mm2 SiPMs. Regarding the capacitor values, the multiplexing circuit using a smaller capacitor value showed the best timing performance. On the other hand, the energy resolution and flood histogram quality of the multiplexing circuit deteriorated as the capacitor value became smaller. The proposed circuit was able to achieve a CRT of [Formula: see text] ps FWHM and an energy resolution of 17.1[Formula: see text] with a pair of [Formula: see text] mm3 LYSO crystals using a capacitor value of 30 pF at an overvoltage of 3.0 V. It was also possible to clearly resolve a [Formula: see text] array of LYSO crystals in the flood histogram using the multiplexing circuit. The experiment results indicate that the proposed capacitive multiplexing circuit is useful to obtain an excellent timing performance and a crystal-resolving capability in the flood histogram with a minimal degradation of the energy resolution, as well as to reduce the number of the readout channels of the SiPM-based TOF PET detector.
Author information
Choe HJ1, Choi Y, Hu W, Yan J, Ho Jung J.
1 Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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