کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10715978 1027430 2009 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Positron Emission Tomography imaging with the SmartPET system
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه فیزیک و نجوم ابزار دقیق
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Positron Emission Tomography imaging with the SmartPET system
چکیده انگلیسی
The Small Animal Reconstruction Tomograph for Positron Emission Tomography (SmartPET) project is the development of a small animal Positron Emission Tomography (PET) demonstrator based on the use of High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors and state of the art digital electronics. The experimental results presented demonstrate the current performance of this unique system. By performing high precision measurements of one of the SmartPET HPGe detectors with a range of finely collimated gamma-ray beams the response of the detector as a function of gamma-ray interaction position has been quantified, facilitating the development of parametric Pulse Shape Analysis (PSA) techniques and algorithms for the correction of imperfections in detector performance. These algorithms have then been applied to data from PET imaging measurements using two such detectors in conjunction with a specially designed rotating gantry. In this paper we show how the use of parametric PSA approaches allows over 60% of coincident events to be processed and how the nature and complexity of an event has direct implications for the quality of the resulting image.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment - Volume 606, Issue 3, 21 July 2009, Pages 523-532
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