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Performance Characteristics of 3D GSO PET/CT Scanner (Philips GEMINI PET/DT)  

Kim, Jin-Su (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Radiation Applied Life Science Major, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Jae-Sung (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Radiation Applied Life Science Major, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Byeong-Il (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Radiation Applied Life Science Major, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Dong-Soo (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Radiation Applied Life Science Major, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Chung, June-Key (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Radiation Applied Life Science Major, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Myung-Chul (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Interdisciplinary Program in Radiation Applied Life Science Major, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine / v.38, no.4, 2004 , pp. 318-324 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: Philips GEMINI is a newly introduced whole-body GSO PET/CT scanner. In this study, performance of the scanner including spatial resolution, sensitivity, scatter fraction, noise equivalent count ratio (NECR) was measured utilizing NEMA NU2-2001 standard protocol and compared with performance of LSO, BGO crystal scanner. Methods: GEMINI is composed of the Philips ALLEGRO PET and MX8000 D multi-slice CT scanners. The PET scanner has 28 detector segments which have an array of 29 by 22 GSO crystals ($4{\times}6{\times}20$ mm), covering axial FOV of 18 cm. PET data to measure spatial resolution, sensitivity, scatter fraction, and NECR were acquired in 3D mode according to the NEMA NU2 protocols (coincidence window: 8 ns, energy window: $409[\sim}664$ keV). For the measurement of spatial resolution, images were reconstructed with FBP using ramp filter and an iterative reconstruction algorithm, 3D RAMLA. Data for sensitivity measurement were acquired using NEMA sensitivity phantom filled with F-18 solution and surrounded by $1{\sim}5$ aluminum sleeves after we confirmed that dead time loss did not exceed 1%. To measure NECR and scatter fraction, 1110 MBq of F-18 solution was injected into a NEMA scatter phantom with a length of 70 cm and dynamic scan with 20-min frame duration was acquired for 7 half-lives. Oblique sinograms were collapsed into transaxial slices using single slice rebinning method, and true to background (scatter+random) ratio for each slice and frame was estimated. Scatter fraction was determined by averaging the true to background ratio of last 3 frames in which the dead time loss was below 1%. Results: Transverse and axial resolutions at 1cm radius were (1) 5.3 and 6.5 mm (FBP), (2) 5.1 and 5.9 mm (3D RAMLA). Transverse radial, transverse tangential, and axial resolution at 10 cm were (1) 5.7, 5.7, and 7.0 mm (FBP), (2) 5.4, 5.4, and 6.4 mm (3D RAMLA). Attenuation free values of sensitivity were 3,620 counts/sec/MBq at the center of transaxial FOV and 4,324 counts/sec/MBq at 10 cm offset from the center. Scatter fraction was 40.6%, and peak true count rate and NECR were 88.9 kcps @ 12.9 kBq/mL and 34.3 kcps @ 8.84 kBq/mL. These characteristics are better than that of ECAT EXACT PET scanner with BGO crystal. Conclusion: The results of this field test demonstrate high resolution, sensitivity and count rate performance of the 3D PET/CT scanner with GSO crystal. The data provided here will be useful for the comparative study with other 3D PET/CT scanners using BGO or LSO crystals.
Keywords
NEMA NU2-2001; GSO; PET/CT;
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