Study of time of flight capability with lutetium fine silicate and multi-pixel photon counter

Author

Yamazaki, Makoto ; Takeshita, Tohru ; Hasegawa, Yoji

Author_Institution

Interdiscipl. Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Shinshu Univ., Matsumoto, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

512

Abstract

We have investigated the timing resolution and spatial resolution of a pair detector which consists of a MPPC and an LFS scintillator for the next generation positron emission tomography (PET) system. A combination of these new devices allows us to improve the timing resolution for Time Of Flight (TOF) - PET. The timing resolution was measured to be 96 ps in FWHM extracted from the photon detection time difference of two detectors. This indicates significant progress of the development of TOF capability for the PET system.

Keywords

image resolution; photon counting; positron emission tomography; solid scintillation detectors; LFS scintillator; MPPC; PET; lutetium fine silicate photon counter; multipixel photon counter; photon detection time difference; positron emission tomography; spatial resolution; time 96 ps; time of flight capability; timing resolution; Detectors; Lutetium; Photonics; Positron emission tomography; Radiation detectors; Spatial resolution; Timing; LFS; LYSO; MPPC; TOF-PET; timing resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), 2011 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9351-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2011.6098241

Filename

6098241