Triple-head gama camera PET: system overview and performance characteristic. (CROSBI ID 98405)
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Grošev, Darko ; Lončarić, Srećko ; Vandenberghe Stefaan ; Dodig, Damir
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Triple-head gama camera PET: system overview and performance characteristic.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is currently performed using either a dedicated PET scanner or scintillation gamma camera equipped with electronic circuitry for coincidence detection of 511 keV annihilation quanta (gamma camera PET system). Although the resolution limits of these two instruments are comparable, the sensitivity and count rate performance of the gamma camera PET system are several times lower than that of the PET scanner. Most gamma camera PET systems are manufactured as dual-detector systems capable of performing dual-head coincidence imaging. One possible step towards the improvement of the sensitivity of the gamma camera PET system is to add another detector head. This work investigates the characteristics of one such triple-head gamma camera PET system capable of performing triple-head coincidence imaging. The following performance characteristics of the system were assessed: spatial resolution, sensitivity, count rate performance. The spatial resolution, expressed as the full width at half-maximum (FWHM), at 1 cm radius is 5.9 mm ; at 10 cm radius, the transverse radial resolution is 5.3 mm, whilst the transverse tangential and axial resolutions are 8.9 mm and 13.3 mm, respectively. The sensitivity for a standard cylindrical phantom is 255 counts×s71×MBq71, using a 30% width photopeak energy window. An increase of 35% in the PET sensitivity is achievable by opening an additional 30% width energy window in the Compton region. The count rate in coincidence mode, at the upper limit of the systems optimal performance, is 45 kc×s71 (kc=kilocounts) using the photopeak energy window only, and increases to 60 kc×s71 using the photopeak + Compton windows. Sensitivity results are compared with published data for a similar dualhead detector system.
triple-head coincidence imaging; gamma camera PET; performance characteristics; sensitivity
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