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  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Instrumentation

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  • Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are crucial for energy readout in gamma cameras.
  • Operational and environmental factors like temperature can cause PMT energy drift, necessitating corrections.
  • Accurate energy calibration is vital for precise event selection and positioning in SPECT.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate two methods for determining energy-scale changes in individual PMTs.
  • To establish a correction procedure for PMT energy drift in cardiac SPECT.
  • To enhance the accuracy and precision of energy readouts in the C-SPECT scanner.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from a vertical line source of 99mTc on a C-SPECT scanner.
  • Generated energy histograms for 130 PMTs, applying energy-fraction selection.
  • Employed bootstrapping for data realization and emulation of energy-scale changes.

Main Results:

  • Determined energy-scaling with high accuracy and precision.
  • Achieved an energy-scaling determination of -0.05% ± 0.03% (mean ± standard deviation).
  • Validated the effectiveness of the developed correction methods.

Conclusions:

  • The presented methods effectively quantify and correct PMT energy drift in SPECT systems.
  • Accurate energy-scale determination is achievable, improving the reliability of cardiac SPECT imaging.
  • These findings contribute to enhanced performance and diagnostic capabilities of SPECT scanners.