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Design study of a brain-dedicated time-of-flight PET system with a hemispherical detector arrangement
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https://repo.qst.go.jp/records/789604d3300c4-25dd-4a5b-b550-c57816c627d5
| Item type | 学術雑誌論文 / Journal Article(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2020-02-12 | |||||
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| タイトル | Design study of a brain-dedicated time-of-flight PET system with a hemispherical detector arrangement | |||||
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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 |
Takyu, Sodai
× Takyu, Sodai× Ahmed, Abdella× Yoshida, Eiji× Tashima, Hideaki× Kumagai, Masaaki× Yamashita, Taichi× Yamaya, Taiga× Sodai, Takyu× Ahmed, Abdella× Eiji, Yoshida× Hideaki, Tashima× Masaaki, Kumagai× Taichi, Yamashita× Taiga, Yamaya |
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | Time-of-flight (TOF) is now a standard technology for positron emission tomography (PET), but its effective use for small diameter PET systems has not been studied well. In this paper, we simulated a brain-dedicated TOF-PET system with a hemispherical detector arrangement. We modeled a Hamamatsu TOF-PET module (C13500-4075LC-12) with 280 ps coincidence resolving time (CRT), in which a 12 × 12 array of multi pixel photon counters (MPPCs) is connected to a lutetium fine silicate (LFS) crystal array of 4.1 × 4.1 mm2 cross section each, based on one-to-one coupling. On the other hand, spatial resolution degradation due to the parallax error should be carefully addressed for the small diameter PET systems. The ideal PET detector would have both depth-of-interaction (DOI) and TOF capabilities, but typical DOI detectors that are based on light sharing tend to degrade TOF performance. Therefore, in this work, we investigated non-DOI detectors with an appropriate crystal length, which was a compromise between suppressed parallax error and decreased sensitivity. Using GEANT4, we compared two TOF detectors, a 20 mm long non-DOI and a 10 mm long non-DOI, with a non-TOF, 4-layer DOI detector with a total length of 20 mm (i.e. 5 × 4 mm). We simulated a contrast phantom and evaluated the relationship between the contrast recovery coefficient (CRC) and the noise level (the coefficient of variation, COV) for reconstructed images. The 10 mm long non-DOI, which reduces the parallax error at the cost of sensitivity loss, showed better imaging quality than the 20 mm long non-DOI. For example, the CRC value of a 10 mm hot sphere at COV = 20% was 72% for the 10 mm long non-DOI, which was 1.2 times higher than that of the 20 mm long non-DOI. The converged CRC values for the 10 mm long non-DOI were almost equivalent to those of the non-TOF 4-layer DOI, and the 10 mm long non-DOI converged faster than the non-TOF 4-layer DOI did. Based on the simulation results, we evaluated a one-pair prototype system of the TOF-PET detectors with 10 mm crystal length, which yielded the CRT of 250 ± 8 ps. In summary, we demonstrated support for feasibility of the brain-dedicated TOF-PET system with the hemispherical detector arrangement. | |||||
| 書誌情報 |
Physics in Medicine & Biology 巻 65, 号 3, p. 035012, 発行日 2020-02 |
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| 出版者 | IOP Publishing | |||||
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| 収録物識別子 | 0031-9155 | |||||
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| 識別子タイプ | DOI | |||||
| 関連識別子 | 10.1088/1361-6560/ab63ee | |||||
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| 関連識別子 | https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab63ee | |||||
