Imaging reagents study for nuclear medicine using an electron-tracking Compton gamma-ray camera

Author

Kabuki, Shigeto ; Kimura, Hiroyuki ; Amano, Hiroo ; Nakamoto, Yuji ; Kubo, Hidetoshi ; Miuchi, Kentaro ; Kurosawa, Shunsuke ; Takahashi, Michiaki ; Kawashima, Hidekazu ; Ueda, Masashi ; Okada, Tomohisa ; Ogawa, Koichi ; Togashi, Kaori ; Saji, Hideo ; Tani

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

Oct. 24 2009-Nov. 1 2009

Firstpage

2813

Lastpage

2816

Abstract

We have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) for new imaging reagents study. Energy limitation of gamma camera is major problem for this study. However, our ETCC has a wide energy dynamic range (200-1300 keV). In this paper, we show the results of imaging reagent study as follows: (1) F-18-FDG (511 keV) and I-131-MIBG (364 keV) simultaneous imaging for double clinical tracer imaging, (2) Zn-65-porphyrin (1116 keV) imaging for high energy gamma-ray imaging and, (3) middle size animal imaging (rabbit). Also we studied the improvement for the camera system.

Keywords

gamma-ray apparatus; radioisotope imaging; Zn-65-porphyrin imaging; double clinical tracer imaging; electron-tracking Compton gamma-ray camera; high energy gamma-ray imaging; imaging reagents study; middle size animal imaging; nuclear medicine; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Dynamic range; Electrons; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Medical diagnostic imaging; Nuclear medicine; Optical imaging; Positron emission tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3961-4

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401649

Filename

5401649