{"title":"Clinical evaluation of single-photon attenuation correction for 3D whole-body PET","authors":"C. Watson, A. Schaefer, W. K. Luk, C. Kirsch","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.773867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.773867","url":null,"abstract":"Reports on the first clinical evaluation of the /sup 137/Cs single photon transmission measurement that has been implemented on the Siemens/CTI ECAT ART. Thorax phantom studies are performed to verify the accuracy of the transmission measurement. Pre-injection (with patient repositioning) and post-injection transmission scans and attenuation corrected emission images of 25 patients are compared with respect to estimated linear attenuation coefficients, specific activities and standardized uptake values in lesions. The authors find that both pre- and post-injection transmission provide accurate estimates of attenuation correction factors. Post-injection estimates for attenuation coefficients and specific activities in larger regional ROIs are nearly the same as pre-injection values, but exhibit 18% greater pixel standard deviation. Estimates of standardized uptake in smaller lesion ROIs are 13% higher with post-injection correction, but there is no difference in the ROI pixel variances.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115518851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Beier, D. Cowen, P. Keener, J. Klein, F. Newcomer, D. McDonald, M. Neubauer, R. Van Berg, R. G. Van de Water, P. Wittich
{"title":"Performance of the electronics for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory","authors":"E. Beier, D. Cowen, P. Keener, J. Klein, F. Newcomer, D. McDonald, M. Neubauer, R. Van Berg, R. G. Van de Water, P. Wittich","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.774309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.774309","url":null,"abstract":"The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a second generation solar neutrino water Cherenkov detector using 1000 tonnes of D/sub 2/O viewed by almost 10000 20 cm photomultiplier tubes. The observatory, located 6800 ' below ground in INCO Ltd's Creighton mine near Sudbury Ontario, recently began full time operation. The SNO electronics provides deadtimeless sub-ns time and 0.1-1000 photoelectrons (pe) of charge measurement. While the solar neutrino event rate is low, the electronics must handle backgrounds in excess of 1 kHz and bursts in excess of 1 MHz. The integrated trigger system handles multiple independent triggers via 10000:1 analog sums. The electronics use three full custom integrated circuits plus standard commercial chips. There are 14 different printed circuit boards mounted in custom crates and racks. The DAQ interface is VME compatible.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"480 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115877160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Dorfan, T. Dubbs, A. Grillo, W. Rowe, H. Sadrozinski, A. Seiden, E. Spencer, S. Stromberg, R. Wichmann, N. Ipe, S. Mao
{"title":"Measurement of dose rate dependence of radiation induced damage to the current gain in bipolar transistors","authors":"D. Dorfan, T. Dubbs, A. Grillo, W. Rowe, H. Sadrozinski, A. Seiden, E. Spencer, S. Stromberg, R. Wichmann, N. Ipe, S. Mao","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775155","url":null,"abstract":"We report the study of radiation induced change in the current gain of bipolar transistors for three different gamma dose rates. The dose rates differed by a factor of 60 with the lowest close to that anticipated for the LHC, and the highest at a rate we have been routinely using for radiation damage tests. The maximum dose attained was 200 kRad, which is high enough to compare with other measurements. The importance of annealing to high dose rate data is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124260057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical determination of the collimator geometrical transfer function for the reconstruction of SPECT data","authors":"A. Formiconi, A. Passeri, P. Calvini","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.771649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.771649","url":null,"abstract":"Iterative SPECT reconstruction algorithms allow to include the information relative to the geometrical system response with accuracy and flexibility. Since the experimental setup of a camera-collimator system may vary considerably, it is necessary to fit the restoration potential of the algorithm to the actual acquisition conditions. In order to avoid any experimental procedure, the authors developed a method to calculate weighting factors from the theoretical knowledge of the geometrical system response of a multihole collimator. The calculation of the weighting factors was based on an appropriate discretization of the Radon transform whose kernel was modified to describe the variable system response of the collimator.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124279169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of possible causes of artifactual decreases in the left ventricular apex with SPECT cardiac perfusion imaging","authors":"P. H. Pretorius, Matt A. King","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.773868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.773868","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this investigation were to determine the impact on apparent localization in the apex of the LV of cardiac and respiratory motion, extra-cardiac uptake, the anisotropic spatial resolution associated with imaging, and apical thinning. The ability of attenuation compensation (AC), and of combined attenuation and spatial resolution correction (ARC) to alter the impact of these factors on apparent apex counts was also investigated. The MCAT phantom was used to simulate cardiac gated radionuclide perfusion imaging both with and without apical thinning of the left ventricular wall. Simple respiratory motion of the structures of the chest was included in the simulation. After reconstruction using the maximum likelihood ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) algorithm with no correction for physical degradation (NC), with AC, and with ARC, polar maps were generated. Results show that cardiac motion had no impact on apex counts other than the absolute values increasing linearly as the myocardium thickens. Respiratory motion of a magnitude similar to that observed clinically does not influence the apex, but does have some effect on adjacent regions. A small decrease in apical counts was observed with body-contouring as opposed to imaging with a circular camera orbit. Counts in the apex varied greatly with extent of the thinning. AC increased the visibility of the apparent decrease in apical counts over NC with apical thinning, as did ARC over AC.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"272 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124401166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of high gain GEM detectors","authors":"A. Bressan, L. Ropelewski, F. Sauli, D. Morman","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.774814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.774814","url":null,"abstract":"We describe systematic measurements, carried out with single and double GEM detectors with printed circuit read-out. The maximum safe operating gain has been measured at increasing radiation flux, and under exposure to heavily ionizing tracks. Detection efficiency, localization accuracy and cluster size have been measured in a minimum ionizing particle beam. With a suitably configured readout electrode, fast two-dimensional localization of radiation is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"182 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124589313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic pole-zero/zero-pole digital compensator for high-resolution spectroscopy: design and experiments","authors":"Angelo Geraci, A. Pullia, G. Ripamonti","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.774313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.774313","url":null,"abstract":"In a high-resolution spectroscopy system the relatively long exponential decay due to the charge preamplifier is customarily canceled in an analogue fashion by means of a PZ (pole-zero) stage. The accurateness of such a compensation has a big impact on the energy resolution because it strongly affects the baseline-stability problems. Automatic methods operating in the analogue domain are used but they require mechanical adjustment of trimmers, which is bulky and not adequate in experiments with many measurement channels. We have automatically and on-line performed such a compensation in a digital way, while maintaining a spectroscopy performance and keeping at minimum both the ADC sampling frequency (thus power consumption) and its resolution (thus cost). This is done through an IIR filter, implemented within a FPGA by a DSP. The so-compensated waveform has, in excellent approximation, an all-pole shape. Starting from such a signal, the minimum-noise filters for energy and/or time measurements are then promptly synthesized and implemented for real time operation through the same DSP.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117008096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kippen, G. Pendleton, R. Mallozzi, G. Richardson, P. Hink, W. Binns, M. Israel, K. Rielage, J. Buckley, G. Fishman, T. Parnell, M. Christl, R. Wilson, T. Koshut
{"title":"Simulations and preliminary results from the SIFTER (scintillating fiber telescope for energetic radiation) beam test apparatus","authors":"R. Kippen, G. Pendleton, R. Mallozzi, G. Richardson, P. Hink, W. Binns, M. Israel, K. Rielage, J. Buckley, G. Fishman, T. Parnell, M. Christl, R. Wilson, T. Koshut","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775234","url":null,"abstract":"The Scintillating Fiber Telescope for Energetic Radiation (SIFTER) is a large-area instrument concept for high-energy (E>10 MeV) gamma-ray astronomy. It takes advantage of the technology of fine (/spl sim/1 mm/sup 2/) plastic scintillating fibers in the context of a pair tracker/calorimeter telescope. In our on-going SIFTER research, we have developed a small test apparatus, consisting of 12 fiber planes, each with a potential active area of 10 cm/spl times/10 cm covered with a thin tantalum foil converter. This apparatus has been tested with high-energy photons (/spl sim/0.5-1.6 GeV) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory Hall B tagged gamma-ray facility. We report on the preliminary beam test results, concentrating on comparisons with detailed Monte Carlo simulations of the instrument performance, including track reconstruction, angular resolution and detection efficiency.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123607828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Arfelli, V. Bonvicini, A. Bravin, G. Cantatore, E. Castelli, M. Fabrizioli, R. Longo, A. Olivo, S. Pani, D. Pontoni, P. Poropat, M. Prest, A. Rashevsky, L. Rigon, G. Tromba, A. Vacchi, E. Vallazza
{"title":"Data acquisition, processing and control for the SYRMEP/FRONTRAD experiment","authors":"F. Arfelli, V. Bonvicini, A. Bravin, G. Cantatore, E. Castelli, M. Fabrizioli, R. Longo, A. Olivo, S. Pani, D. Pontoni, P. Poropat, M. Prest, A. Rashevsky, L. Rigon, G. Tromba, A. Vacchi, E. Vallazza","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.775158","url":null,"abstract":"The SYRMEP/FRONTRAD experiment is performing a R&D program in order to assess the performances of a scanning X-ray detector operating at the ELETTRA Synchrotron light source, in an energy range optimized for mammographic imaging. The detector itself consists of a stack of silicon detectors positioned edge-on with respect to the X-ray beam direction. The data acquisition system must perform several tasks: from the control of the motors during the scanning procedure, to the collection of the data that are recorded on CAMAC modules and refer to the slots of the image while it is forming. The system has to process the data during the scan and to store them on a local disk. In addition, the environmental conditions (global dose measured by an ionization chamber, temperature, dark current of the detector and status of the electronics power supplies) have to be monitored and the proper action taken. We have implemented a multiprocessing system using TCP/IP and RPC to manage the tasks. The overall control is done by a GUI built using the Tcl/Tk package.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123958056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a 3D position sensitive scintillation detector using neural networks","authors":"D. Clement, R. Frei, J. Loude, C. Morel","doi":"10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.773818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.1998.773818","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a novel method of exploiting light division in a scintillating crystal to localise in three-dimensions the point of interaction of an impinging photon. For this, light output of a detector block is mapped for known irradiation positions of a collimated photon beam and used to train a set of three independent multilayer neural networks. Spatial resolutions obtained with a Monte Carlo simulation of a cubic 2/spl times/2/spl times/2 cm/sup 3/ CsI(Tl) crystal fully covered with 24 Si PIN photodiodes are better than 2 mm fwhm in the three directions over the entire volume of the detector block. For comparison, the spatial resolution reconstructed in two dimensions from a simple Anger logic based on the photodetectors coupled to the rear side of the crystal is about 3.5 mm fwhm for the same experimental setup.","PeriodicalId":129202,"journal":{"name":"1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. 1998 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.98CH36255)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126118990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}