Journal of radiological science and technology (대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학)
- Volume 29 Issue 1
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- Pages.13-19
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- 2006
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- 2288-3509(pISSN)
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- 2384-1168(eISSN)
A Study of Uniformity Test in PET/CT
PET/CT 장치의 uniformitly측정에 관한 연구
- Kim, Su-Keun (Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, St. Vincent,s Hospital, Catholic Univ.) ;
- Jung, Hee-Il (Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, St. Vincent,s Hospital, Catholic Univ.) ;
- Park, Soung-Ock (Dept. of Radiologic technology, Dongnam health college)
- Published : 2006.03.30
Abstract
The PET scanner can detect the photon pair arriving from the source in phantom. The number of light photons released by the crystal(scintillator-BGO or LSO). In recent scintillation crystals in block structures were incorporated into full ring systems, and their resulted marked improvement in spatial resolution and increase in a sensitivity to annihilations. The uniformity of the crystal sensitivity is very important to makes correct information of abnormal states in organs. These factors influenced by the dection efficiency of the scintillators. We have study about the uniformity of crystals to the annihilation, And study about the standard deviation to average counts. The relative standard deviation in central detector groups more uniformed than circumferenced detector groups. It is caused detected quanta of gamma ray by the geometrical factors of PET detector. PET cameras are available with different geometric arrangement and several parallel rings oriented in the axial direction. The center groups from 7th to 40th groups are comparatively uniform and sensitive. But at the circumferenced detectors decreased the sensitivity and uniformity.
PET scanner는 양전자의 소멸복사에 의한 511 Kev의 감마선을 검출한다. multi ring detector에서 선원과 검출기사이의 기하학적 위치에 따른 감마선 검출에 대한 균등성(uniformity)을 검토 분석하였다. 감마선원과 검출기의 배열위치에 따른 이론적 검토와 일정한 크기의 phantom 내에서 방출되는 감마선을 2차원적으로 preset count하고, 검출기의 위치에 따라 평균계수치에 대한 편차율의 분포를 통하여 그 균등성을 비교 분석하였다. 1 bed data를 얻을 수 있는 47개의 검출기군으로 분류하고, 각 검출기군의 위치에 따른 편차율을 비교분석한 결과, 산란선과 산란되지 않은 모든 방사선량의 분포가 많은 중심군인 3번째부터 45번째까지에서는 평균편차의 비율이