Study of photonis XP1470 nine-channel photomultiplier tube for applications in high resolution single gamma and PET imagers

Author

Popov, Vladimir ; Majewski, Stan ; Proffitt, James ; McKisson, John ; Kross, Brian ; Weisenberger, Andrew

Author_Institution

Thomas Jefferson Nat. Accel. Facility, Newport

Volume

4

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

2870

Lastpage

2874

Abstract

Performance of a new XP1470 nine-channel photomultiplier tube was studied for economical yet high resolution single gamma and PET imaging applications. Four samples of this PMT were tested using two different front-end readout schemes. Spatial and time resolution performance of 1 times 2 and 2 times 2 array configurations of these PMTs were studied with 2 mm and 3 mm pixellated LYSO and Nal(Tl) crystal arrays with 122 keV and 511 keV gamma rays. With optimized light spreader, good pixel separation and good energy resolution were achieved in a small ~10 times 10 cm² active FOV PET or single gamma detector module prototype.

Keywords

gamma-ray apparatus; photomultipliers; positron emission tomography; solid scintillation detectors; LYSO crystal; Nal crystal array; PET imager; electron volt energy 122 keV; electron volt energy 511 keV; nine-channel photomultiplier tube; photonis XP1470; single gamma imager; spatial resolution; Energy resolution; Gamma rays; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Optical imaging; Photomultipliers; Positron emission tomography; Power generation economics; Spatial resolution; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436734

Filename

4436734