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A Basic Positron Emission Tomography System Constructed to Locate a Radioactive Source in a Bi-dimensional Space
Published on: February 1, 2016
Development and Characterization of Modular Readout Design for Two-Panel Head-and-Neck Dedicated PET System Based on
Yuli Wang1, Ryan Herbst2, Shiva Abbaszadeh1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
Abstract:
Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors are suitable for various applications due to the good energy resolution and the simple pixilation to achieve high spatial resolution. Our group is developing a two-panel head and neck dedicated positron emission tomography system based on CZT detectors. Each panel will consist of 150 CZT crystals (4×4×0.5 cm3) covering an area of 20×15 cm2 in an edge-on configuration to achieve high detector efficiency at 511 keV. In this work, we present the design and development of a full data acquisition chain that enables a low noise and compact readout for each panel. The initial results of the readout circuit were quantified using a 1 kHz square wave test pulse. The pulse amplitude was chosen to generate approximately the same amount of charges as a 511 keV photon would provide in CZT. The best-case FWHM electronic noise at 511 keV was measured to be 0.69% ± 0.16% (3.52 ± 0.81 in keV units after conversion). The FWHM electronic noise at 511 keV for a complete DAQ chain was 4.33% ± 0.30% (22.13 ± 1.53 in keV units).
