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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2019.13.6.841

Effect of Detector-Misalignment on TOF-PET Detector Performance  

Yang, Jingyu (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
Kang, Jihoon (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chonnam National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.13, no.6, 2019 , pp. 841-846 More about this Journal
Abstract
Effect of misalignment on the performance was evaluated for the development of time-of-flight(TOF)-PET detector. A pair of TOF-PET detector consists of Lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate(LYSO) scintillation crystal with a volume of 3 mm × 3 mm × 20 mm and Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes(GAPD) photo-sensor with a active area of 3.07 mm × 3.07 mm. Analog output signals from TOF-PET detector were sent to the pre-amplifier and then fed into the gain adjust circuit for achievement of gain homogeneity for each detector. The amplified signals were recorded and digitized by data acquisition system based on oscilloscope. The effect of the detector misalignment between LYSO and GAPD was examined for four different alignment offsets of 0.0 mm, 0.5 mm, 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm for a pair of TOF-PET detector. The photopeak position decreased from ~400 mV to ~250 mV with increasing detector misalignment. the energy resolution and time resolution were degraded from 11.6% to 16.2%, and from 477 ps to 632 ps, respectively. This study demonstrated that PET detector performance was degraded considerably depending on the detector misalignment, which would be a critical issue for the development of TOF-PET detector.
Keywords
Detector misalignment; Energy resolution; Photopeak position; Time resolution; Time-of-flight PET;
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