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Simulation study on the role of tissue-scattered events in improving sensitivity for a compact time of flight compton positron emission tomograph

  • In positron emission tomography improving time, energy and spatial detector resolutions and using Compton kinematics introduces the possibility to reconstruct a radioactivity distribution image from scatter coincidences, thereby enhancing image quality. The number of single scattered coincidences alone is in the same order of magnitude as true coincidences. In this work, a compact Compton camera module based on monolithic scintillation material is investigated as a detector ring module. The detector interactions are simulated with Monte Carlo package GATE. The scattering angle inside the tissue is derived from the energy of the scattered photon, which results in a set of possible scattering trajectories or broken line of response. The Compton kinematics collimation reduces the number of solutions. Additionally, the time of flight information helps localize the position of the annihilation. One of the questions of this investigation is related to how the energy, spatial and temporal resolutions help confine the possible annihilation volume. A comparison of currently technically feasible detector resolutions (under laboratory conditions) demonstrates the influence on this annihilation volume and shows that energy and coincidence time resolution have a significant impact. An enhancement of the latter from 400 ps to 100 ps leads to a smaller annihilation volume of around 50%, while a change of the energy resolution in the absorber layer from 12% to 4.5% results in a reduction of 60%. The inclusion of single tissue-scattered data has the potential to increase the sensitivity of a scanner by a factor of 2 to 3 times. The concept can be further optimized and extended for multiple scatter coincidences and subsequently validated by a reconstruction algorithm.

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Author:M. Olderog, P. Mohr, Stefan BegingORCiD, C. Tsoumpas, Karl Ziemons
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/NSS/MIC42677.2020.9507901
ISBN:978-1-7281-7693-2
Parent Title (English):2020 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
Publisher:IEEE
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of Completion:2021
Date of the Publication (Server):2021/08/19
Length:4 Seiten
Note:
2020 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 31 Oct.-7 Nov. 2020, Boston, MA, USA
Link:https://doi.org/10.1109/NSS/MIC42677.2020.9507901
Zugriffsart:campus
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Medizintechnik und Technomathematik