TY  - JOUR
A1  - Streun, M.
A1  - Brandenburg, G.
A1  - Brökel, M.
A1  - Fuss, L.
A1  - Larue, H.
A1  - Parl, C.
A1  - Zimmermann, E.
A1  - Ziemons, Karl
A1  - Halling, H.
T1  - The ClearPET data acquisition
JF  - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 5
N2  - Within the Crystal Clear Collaboration a modular system for a small animal PET scanner (ClearPET™) has been developed. The modularity allows the assembly of scanners of different sizes and characteristics in order to fit the specific needs of the individual member institutions. Now a first demonstrator is being completed in Julich. The system performs depth of interaction detection by using a phoswich arrangement combining LSO and LuYAP scintillators which are coupled to multi-channel photomultipliers (PMTs). A free-running ADC digitizes the signal from the PMT and the complete scintillation pulses are sampled by an FPGA and sent with 20 MB/S to a PC for preprocessing. The pulse provides information about the gamma energy and the scintillator material which identifies the interaction layer. Furthermore, the exact pulse starting time is obtained from the sampled data. This is important as no hardware coincidence detection is implemented. All single events are recorded and coincidences are identified by software. An advantage of that is that the coincidence window and the dimensions of the field of view can be adjusted easily. The ClearPET™ demonstrator is equipped with 10240 crystals on 80 PMTs. This paper presents an overview of the data acquisition system.
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 1082-3654
SP  - 3097
EP  - 3100
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bussmann, N.
A1  - Engels, R.
A1  - Fuss, L.
A1  - Kemmerling, G.
A1  - Reinartz, R.
A1  - Langen, K.-J.
A1  - Schelten, J.
A1  - Ziemons, Karl
T1  - Performance measurement of a new high resolution detector system for I-131 thyroid studies
JF  - 2000 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 3
N2  - A 2-dimensional detector system for high resolution thyroid I-131 scintigraphy was developed. It has a sensitive area of 4 cm×4 cm and consists of a lead-collimator and an array of 10×10 EGO crystals combined with a position sensitive photomultiplier. The spatial resolution and the sensitivity of the detector has been measured and compared to two commercially available gamma-cameras. Furthermore first patient measurements have been carried out
Y1  - 2000
SN  - 1082-3654
SP  - 22/35
EP  - 22/37
ER  -