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  • Medical Imaging
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Instrumentation

Background:

  • Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems often require high resolution for specific regions like lesions or organs.
  • Designing a PET system with uniform high resolution is often not cost-efficient for all imaging tasks.
  • Existing solutions like inserts offer local resolution enhancement but present design complexities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate a cost-efficient PET system design strategy using two detector groups with different resolutions.
  • To evaluate an alternative to inserts: a system with one arc of normal-resolution detectors and one arc of high-resolution detectors (HRDs).
  • To analyze the impact of HRD arc location and size on system resolution properties.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing Monte Carlo simulations to model and analyze the proposed PET system design.
  • Assessing the spatial resolution and uniformity across the field-of-view (FOV).
  • Varying the placement and extent of the high-resolution detector arc.

Main Results:

  • The proposed design achieves significantly better resolution in a specific region compared to the rest of the FOV.
  • The region with enhanced resolution is defined by connecting the edges of the HRD arc to the FOV center.
  • Improved resolution uniformity is observed within the targeted area.

Conclusions:

  • A PET system combining normal and high-resolution detector arcs is a viable and potentially cost-effective strategy.
  • This design offers superior resolution in targeted regions, beneficial for lesion or organ imaging.
  • Further research can optimize HRD arc configuration for specific clinical applications.