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Sensitivity booster for DOI-PET scanner by utilizing Compton scattering events between detector blocks
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| Item type | 学術雑誌論文 / Journal Article(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2014-12-16 | |||||
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| タイトル | Sensitivity booster for DOI-PET scanner by utilizing Compton scattering events between detector blocks | |||||
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| 言語 | eng | |||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||
| 資源タイプ | journal article | |||||
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| アクセス権 | metadata only access | |||||
| アクセス権URI | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb | |||||
| 著者 |
Yoshida, Eiji
× Yoshida, Eiji× Tashima, Hideaki× Yamaya, Taiga× 吉田 英治× 田島 英朗× 山谷 泰賀 |
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | In a conventional PET scanner, coincidence events are measured with a limited energy window for detection of photoelectric events in order to reject Compton scatter events that occur in a patient, but Compton scatter events caused in detector crystals are also rejected. Scatter events within the patient causes scatter coincidences, but inter crystal scattering (ICS) events have useful information for determining an activity distribution. Some researchers have reported the feasibility of PET scanners based on a Compton camera for tracing ICS into the detector. However, these scanners require expensive semiconductor detectors for high-energy resolution. In the Anger-type block detector, single photons interacting with multiple detectors can be obtained for each interacting position and complete information can be gotten just as for photoelectric events in the single detector. ICS events in the single detector have been used to get coincidence, but single photons interacting with multiple detectors have not been used to get coincidence. In this work, we evaluated effect of sensitivity improvement using Compton kinetics in several types of DOI-PET scanners. The proposed method promises to improve the sensitivity using coincidence events of single photons interacting with multiple detectors, which are identified as the first interaction (FI). FI estimation accuracy can be improved to determine FI validity from the correlation between Compton scatter angles calculated on the coincidence line-of-response. We simulated an animal PET scanner consisting of 42 detectors. Each detector block consists of three types of scintillator crystals (LSO, GSO and GAGG). After the simulation, coincidence events are added as information for several depth-of-interaction (DOI) resolutions. From the simulation results, we concluded the proposed method promises to improve the sensitivity considerably when effective atomic number of a scintillator is low. Also, we showed that FI estimate accuracy is improved, as DOI resolution is high. | |||||
| 書誌情報 |
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A 巻 763, p. 502-509, 発行日 2014-11 |
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| 出版者 | Elsevier | |||||
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| 識別子タイプ | DOI | |||||
| 関連識別子 | 10.1016/j.nima.2014.07.002 | |||||
