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Area of Science:

  • Nuclear Instrumentation
  • Medical Physics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Heterostructured scintillators offer potential for balancing sensitivity and timing in Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET) detectors.
  • Layering in scintillators can compromise time resolution due to light transport issues.
  • Double-sided readout (DSR) is explored to enhance light collection and Depth-of-Interaction (DOI) information retrieval.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of DSR on the time resolution and DOI performance of BGO&EJ232 heterostructures.
  • To investigate the intrinsic capture of DOI information using DSR.

Main Methods:

  • Evaluated 3x3x20 mm³ BGO&EJ232 heterostructures using single-sided readout (SSR) and DSR configurations.
  • Employed high-frequency electronics for precise timing measurements.
  • Measured Coincidence Time Resolution (CTR) and DOI resolution.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a DOI resolution of 6.4 ± 0.04 mm.
  • Improved CTR from 262 ± 8 ps (SSR) to 174 ± 6 ps (DSR) when measured against a reference detector.
  • In a symmetrical DSR configuration, achieved CTR of 254 ± 8 ps (all photopeak events) and 107 ± 5 ps (fastest events).

Conclusions:

  • High-frequency DSR effectively measures DOI resolution and enhances heterostructure time resolution by up to 40%.
  • DOI information is intrinsically captured by averaging timestamps from dual silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) without additional correction.
  • DSR is a promising technique for advancing TOF-PET detector performance.