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- 2021년 08월호
[Phys Med Biol.] High-resolution time-of-flight PET detector with 100 ps coincidence time resolution using a side-coupled phoswich configurationStanford University / 이민수, Craig S Levin*
- 출처
- Phys Med Biol.
- 등재일
- 2021 Jun 9
- 저널이슈번호
- 66(12). doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac01b5.
- 내용
Abstract
Photon time-of-flight (TOF) capability in positron emission tomography (PET) enables reconstructed image signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement. With the coincidence time resolution (CTR) of 100 picosecond (ps), a five-fold SNR improvement can be achieved with a 40 cm diameter imaging subject, relative to a system without TOF capability. This 100 ps CTR can be achieved for aclinically relevantdetector design (crystal element length ≥20 mm with reasonably high crystal packing fraction) using a side-readout PET detector configuration that enables 511 keV photon interaction depth-independent light collection efficiency and lower variance in scintillation photon transit time to the silicon photomultiplier (SiPM). In this study, we propose a new concept of TOF-PET detector to achieve high (<2 mm) resolution, using a 'side-coupled phoswich' configuration, where two crystals with different decay times (τd) are coupled in a side-readout configuration to a common row of photosensors. The proposed design was validated and optimized with GATE Monte Carlo simulation studies to determine an efficient detector design. Based on the simulation results, a proof-of-concept side-coupled phoswich detector design was developed comprising two LSO crystals with the size of 1.9 × 1.9 × 10 mm3with decay times of 34.39 and 43.07 ns, respectively. The phoswich crystals were side-coupled to the same three 4 × 4 mm2SiPMs and detector performances were evaluated. As a result of the experimental evaluation, the side-coupled phoswich configuration achieved CTR of 107 ± 3 ps, energy resolution of 10.5% ± 1.21% at 511 keV and >95% accuracy in identifying interactions in the two adjacent 1.9 × 1.9 × 10 mm3crystal elements using the time-over-threshold technique. Based on our results, we can achieve excellent spatial and energy resolution in addition to ∼100 ps CTR with this novel detector design.Affiliations
Min Sun Lee 1 2 , Joshua W Cates 3 , Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro 1 , Craig S Levin 1 4 5 6
1 Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, School of Medicine, Stanford University, CA, United States of America.
2 Nuclear Emergency & Environmental Protection Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
3 Applied Nuclear Physics Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, United States of America.
4 Department of Physics, Stanford University, CA, United States of America.
5 Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, United States of America.
6 Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, CA, United States of America.
- 키워드
- 100ps; coincidence time resolution; high resolution; phoswich; positron emission tomography; silicon photomultiplier; time-of-flight.
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