DocumentCode :
2560430
Title :
Measure PET detector performance with the intrinsic radioactivity of scintillator
Author :
Qingyang Wei ; Tianyu Ma ; Shi Wang ; Rutao Yao ; Yaqiang Liu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Phys., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
fYear :
2012
fDate :
Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012
Firstpage :
3544
Lastpage :
3547
Abstract :
One common configuration of PET detector modules is an array of scintillators, usually LYSO or its variant, coupled to multiple photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). The objective of this work was to test the feasibility of measuring the performance of such detector module with the intrinsic radioactivity from the 176Lu in the scintillator for its convenience and uniformity. The performance indices of a detector module include the individual crystal energy resolution and relative crystal light collection efficiency. They are indispensable in detector and system development. As no prominent photoelectric-peak exists in the 176Lu energy spectrum, it is not straight forward to obtain the detector performance indices from the acquired data. We developed a method to derive the crystal energy resolution and the relative crystal light collection efficiency by fitting the experiment crystal energy spectrum with simulated crystal energy spectrum. The detector module of this study consisted of a 6 by 6 L YSO scintillator array coupled to 4 PMTs. A 2-minute and a 30-minute two dimensional position map (2Dmap) were acquired for evaluating data with short and long scans. With the short acquisition data, we can generally evaluate the performance of the detector. With the long acquisition data, we segmented the 2Dmap and obtained the crystal energy resolutions to be 25% to 45% and the relative crystal light collection efficiency to be 0.43 to 1. We concluded that the 176Lu background radiation could be used to evaluate LYSO and its variant based PET detector module.
Keywords :
photomultipliers; positron emission tomography; solid scintillation detectors; 2D position map; 2Dmap segmentation; 176Lu; LYSO scintillator array; PET detector performance; crystal energy resolution; photoelectric peak; photomultiplier tube; relative crystal light collection efficiency; scintillator intrinsic radioactivity; time 2 min; time 30 min;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
ISSN :
1082-3654
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2028-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551811
Filename :
6551811
Link To Document :
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