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High resolution PET scanner using rotating ring array of enlarged detectors having successively offset collimation apertures
High resolution PET scanner using rotating ring array of enlarged detectors having successively offset collimation apertures
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机译:使用具有依次偏移的准直孔的扩大的探测器的旋转环阵列的高分辨率PET扫描仪
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A greatly reduced number of scintillation cyrstal/PMT gamma ray detectors are employed in a ring array about a PET image volume. Because of the relatively small number of such detectors, the complexity and expense of associated electronic signal processing channels is greatly reduced (even if each such channel is provided with sophisticated time of flight capabilities). Similarly, because relatively fewer crystals are employed, it becomes possible to use much larger and faster response time scintillation crystals so as to greatly increase gamma ray detection efficiency and scatter rejection while also permitting the electronic circuits to better reject random events and to provide effective time of flight image data filtering. By providing successively offset collimation apertures for each successive detector of the ring array and by rotating the array 360 degrees through a large number of successive view angle positions, it is nevertheless possible to acquire extremely high resolution image data with a greatly reduced system cost. A multiple aperture embodiment provides improved sensitivity by using associated light collimators and photodiodes in conjunction with slow coincidence steering circuits.
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