Title
Simulation Results Of A Small Animal Liquid Xenon Pet Detector
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations of a novel concept PET detector for small animal imaging are presented. The scintillation medium of the detector is liquid xenon whose characteristics in terms of detection rival with the common scintillator crystals. Moreover, the axial geometry of the detector enables depth of interaction measurement. A detector module has been built and an experimental test bench has been developed. Simulations of the test bench enabled to determine the methods to use for analysing the experimental data. Moreover, they indicate the spatial resolution in the axial direction and the energy resolution which can be expected from the detector. The results show an axial resolution of 2.87 +/- 0.12 mm and an energy resolution of 7.59 +/- 0.34%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541224
2008 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: FROM NANO TO MACRO, VOLS 1-4
Keywords
Field
DocType
Positron Emission Tomography, scintillation detectors, Monte Carlo simulations
Monte Carlo method,Test bench,Scintillation,Optics,Tomography,Xenon,Scintillator,Image resolution,Detector,Physics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1945-7928
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7