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Simulation study of PET detector configuration with thick light guide and GAPD array having large-area microcells for high effective quantum efficiency.

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Light sharing PET detector configuration coupled with thick light guide and Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (GAPD) with large-area microcells was proposed to overcome the energy non-linearity problem and to obtain high light collection efficiency (LCE). METHODS:A Monte-Carlo simulation was conducted for the three types of LSO block, 4 × 4 array of 3 × 3 × 20 mm(3) discrete crystals, 6 × 6 array of 2 × 2 × 20 mm(3) discrete crystals, and 12 × 12 array of 1 × 1 × 20 mm(3) discrete crystals, to investigate the scintillation light distribution after conversion of the γ-rays in LSO. The incident photons were read out by three types of 4 × 4 array photosensors, which were PSPMT of 25% quantum efficiency (QE), GAPD1 with 50 × 50 µm(2) microcells of 30% photon detection efficiency (PDE) and GAPD2 with 100 × 100 µm(2) of 45% PDE. The number of counted photons in each photosensor was analytically calculated. The LCE, linearity and flood histogram were examined for each PET detector module having 99 different configurations as a function of light guide thickness ranging from 0 to 10 mm. RESULTS:The performance of PET detector modules based on GAPDs was considerably improved by using the thick light guide. The LCE was increased from 24 to 30% and from 14 to 41%, and the linearity was also improved from 0.97 to 0.99 and from 0.75 to 0.99, for GAPD1 and GAPD2, respectively. As expected, the performance of PSPMT based detector did not change. The flood histogram of 12 × 12 array PET detector modules using 3 mm light guide coupled with GAPDs was obtained by simulation, and all crystals of 1 × 1 × 20 mm(3) size were clearly identified. PET detector module coupled with thick light guide and GAPD array with large-area microcells was proposed to obtain high QE and high spatial resolution, and its feasibility was verified. CONCLUSIONS:This study demonstrated that the overall PET performance of the proposed design was considerably improved, and this approach will provide opportunities to develop GAPD based PET detector with a high LCE.

journal_name

Comput Methods Programs Biomed

journal_title

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine

authors

Kang J,Choi Y

doi

10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.04.007

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-07-01 00:00:00

pages

79-87

eissn

0169-2607

issn

1872-7565

pii

S0169-2607(15)30169-3

journal_volume

131

pub_type

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Simulation study of PET detector configuration with thick light guide and GAPD array having large-area microcells for high effective quantum efficiency.