A Study on the Wedge shape Detector of Very High Resolution Positron Emission computer Tomography

초고해상도 양전자 방출 CT의 쐐기형 검출기에 관한 연구

The high resolution of positron emission tomography, in particular, requires the use of detector crystals of narrow width but still with sufficiently high detection efficiency. If the crystal width is reduced to several millimeters, degradation of detection efficiency and leakage coefficient becomes significant, particularly in case of obliquely incident photons. Alleviation of such a problem can be made possible by modification of the detector shape from the conventional rectangular type to a wed농e type. The Proposed wedge shape makes the absorption length longer for obliquely incident photons, thus increasing the detection efficiency and suppressing leakage coefficient. For the BGO detectors of 4-8mm width, the computer simulation result of the system using wedge detectors reveals resolution improvement to the system using conventional detectors. For the system composed of 200 BGO detectors of 8mm width with 2 point sampling motion, the simulation resolution system using conventional detectors. For the very high resolution system of 3-7mm FWHM, the characteristics of the detector shape and size is studied by computer simulation.

양전자 방출 CT에서는 고해상도를 얻기 위해서 즙은 폭의 검출기와 충분히 큰 검출효률이 동시에 요구된다. 검출기의 폭을 수 mm까지 줄이면 검출기준이 급감소하고 누설률이 급상승하여 이를 사용함이 인난하여진다. 특히 사각으로 입사하는 포톤의 경우 후각하다. 이를 해결하는 방법으로 쐐기형 검출기를 제안하였고 이에 관련된 문제들을 탐구하였다. 4∼8mm BGO 검출기의 쐐기형을 사용한 시스템이 종미 요육양체형을 사용한 시스템보다 해상도가 증가하였다. 예를들면 회 8mm의 BGO 검출기 200개를 난제하게 배치한 시스템이 이점 샘플링할 경우 쐐기형의 해상도가 5.4mm FWHM으로 같은 조건의 직육면체형의 6.6mm FWHM보다 향상됨을 시뮬레이션으로 확인하였다. 3∼7mm FWHM의 초고해상도 시스템의 검출기에 대하여 형태와 크기에 따른 특성도 시뮬레이션으로 구하여 제시하였다. The high resolution of positron emission tomography, in particular, requires the use of detector crystals of narrow width but still with sufficiently high detection efficiency. If the crystal width is reduced to several millimeters, degradation of detection efficiency and leakage coefficient becomes significant, particularly in case of obliquely incident photons. Alleviation of such a problem can be made possible by modification of the detector shape from the conventional rectangular type to a wed농e type. The Proposed wedge shape makes the absorption length longer for obliquely incident photons, thus increasing the detection efficiency and suppressing leakage coefficient. For the BGO detectors of 4-8mm width, the computer simulation result of the system using wedge detectors reveals resolution improvement to the system using conventional detectors. For the system composed of 200 BGO detectors of 8mm width with 2 point sampling motion, the simulation resolution system using conventional detectors. For the very high resolution system of 3-7mm FWHM, the characteristics of the detector shape and size is studied by computer simulation.