Yongfeng Yang1, Julien Bec2, Jian Zhou2, Mengxi Zhang2, Martin S Judenhofer2, Xiaowei Bai2, Kun Di2, Yibao Wu2, Mercedes Rodriguez3, Purushottam Dokhale4, Kanai S Shah4, Richard Farrell4, Jinyi Qi2, Simon R Cherry2. 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China yf.yang@siat.ac.cn. 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California. 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California-Davis, Davis, California Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico; and. 4. Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts.
Abstract
UNLABELLED: We developed a prototype small-animal PET scanner based on depth-encoding detectors using dual-ended readout of small scintillator elements to produce high and uniform spatial resolution suitable for imaging the mouse brain. METHODS: The scanner consists of 16 tapered dual-ended-readout detectors arranged in a 61-mm-diameter ring. The axial field of view (FOV) is 7 mm, and the transaxial FOV is 30 mm. The scintillator arrays consist of 14 × 14 lutetium oxyorthosilicate elements, with a crystal size of 0.43 × 0.43 mm at the front end and 0.80 × 0.43 mm at the back end, and the crystal elements are 13 mm long. The arrays are read out by 8 × 8 mm and 13 × 8 mm position-sensitive avalanche photodiodes (PSAPDs) placed at opposite ends of the array. Standard nuclear-instrumentation-module electronics and a custom-designed multiplexer are used for signal processing. RESULTS: The detector performance was measured, and all but the crystals at the very edge could be clearly resolved. The average intrinsic spatial resolution in the axial direction was 0.61 mm. A depth-of-interaction resolution of 1.7 mm was achieved. The sensitivity of the scanner at the center of the FOV was 1.02% for a lower energy threshold of 150 keV and 0.68% for a lower energy threshold of 250 keV. The spatial resolution within a FOV that can accommodate the entire mouse brain was approximately 0.6 mm using a 3-dimensional maximum-likelihood expectation maximization reconstruction. Images of a hot-rod microphantom showed that rods with a diameter of as low as 0.5 mm could be resolved. The first in vivo studies were performed using (18)F-fluoride and confirmed that a 0.6-mm resolution can be achieved in the mouse head in vivo. Brain imaging studies with (18)F-FDG were also performed. CONCLUSION: We developed a prototype PET scanner that can achieve a spatial resolution approaching the physical limits of a small-bore PET scanner set by positron range and detector interaction. We plan to add more detector rings to extend the axial FOV of the scanner and increase sensitivity.
UNLABELLED: We developed a prototype small-animal PET scanner based on depth-encoding detectors using dual-ended readout of small scintillator elements to produce high and uniform spatial resolution suitable for imaging the mouse brain. METHODS: The scanner consists of 16 tapered dual-ended-readout detectors arranged in a 61-mm-diameter ring. The axial field of view (FOV) is 7 mm, and the transaxial FOV is 30 mm. The scintillator arrays consist of 14 × 14 lutetium oxyorthosilicate elements, with a crystal size of 0.43 × 0.43 mm at the front end and 0.80 × 0.43 mm at the back end, and the crystal elements are 13 mm long. The arrays are read out by 8 × 8 mm and 13 × 8 mm position-sensitive avalanche photodiodes (PSAPDs) placed at opposite ends of the array. Standard nuclear-instrumentation-module electronics and a custom-designed multiplexer are used for signal processing. RESULTS: The detector performance was measured, and all but the crystals at the very edge could be clearly resolved. The average intrinsic spatial resolution in the axial direction was 0.61 mm. A depth-of-interaction resolution of 1.7 mm was achieved. The sensitivity of the scanner at the center of the FOV was 1.02% for a lower energy threshold of 150 keV and 0.68% for a lower energy threshold of 250 keV. The spatial resolution within a FOV that can accommodate the entire mouse brain was approximately 0.6 mm using a 3-dimensional maximum-likelihood expectation maximization reconstruction. Images of a hot-rod microphantom showed that rods with a diameter of as low as 0.5 mm could be resolved. The first in vivo studies were performed using (18)F-fluoride and confirmed that a 0.6-mm resolution can be achieved in the mouse head in vivo. Brain imaging studies with (18)F-FDG were also performed. CONCLUSION: We developed a prototype PET scanner that can achieve a spatial resolution approaching the physical limits of a small-bore PET scanner set by positron range and detector interaction. We plan to add more detector rings to extend the axial FOV of the scanner and increase sensitivity.
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