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  • Medical Imaging Physics
  • Nuclear Medicine Technology
  • Computational Modeling

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  • Positron range causes blurring in positron emission tomography (PET) images, limiting spatial resolution.
  • Accurate positron range kernels are crucial for correcting this blurring, especially in heterogeneous tissues.
  • Existing methods struggle with inhomogeneous stopping power at tissue boundaries.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel approach for generating accurate 3D blurring kernels for PET.
  • To improve PET spatial resolution in both homogeneous and heterogeneous media.
  • To enable fast computation of positron annihilation probability for improved efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Positron energy deposition was approximated by tracking straight paths based on material stopping power.
  • Positron stopping power was derived from 511 keV gamma photon attenuation coefficients using PET attenuation maps.
  • The method facilitates rapid calculation of positron annihilation probability per voxel.

Main Results:

  • Positron path distributions for 18F in polyurethane closely matched Geant4 simulations.
  • The model accurately represented tissue boundaries (water, bone, lung) and showed minimal computational artifacts (<1%).
  • Calculated annihilation probabilities showed less than 20% difference compared to Geant4 simulations.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method effectively generates accurate positron range kernels.
  • This approach is expected to significantly enhance spatial resolution in PET, particularly for non-standard isotopes.
  • The method's ability to handle tissue inhomogeneities offers broad applicability in PET imaging.