Radiant energy – Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling – With or including a luminophor
Patent
1984-05-24
1986-01-07
Fields, Carolyn E.
Radiant energy
Invisible radiant energy responsive electric signalling
With or including a luminophor
250366, 250367, 378147, G01T 1164
Patent
active
045635820
ABSTRACT:
A positron emission tomography camera having a plurality of detector rings positioned side-by-side or offset by one-half of the detector cross section around a patient area to detect radiation therefrom. Each ring contains a plurality of scintillation detectors which are positioned around an inner circumference with a septum ring extending inwardly from the inner circumference along each outer edge of each ring. An additional septum ring is positioned in the middle of each ring of detectors and parallel to the other septa rings whereby the inward extent of all the septa rings may be reduced by one-half and the number of detectors required in each ring is reduced. Each detector ring or offset ring includes a plurality of photomultiplier tubes and a plurality of scintillation crystals are positioned relative to the photomultiplier tubes whereby each tube is responsive to more than one crystal. Each alternate crystal in the ring is offset by one-half or less of the thickness of the crystal such that the staggered crystals are seen by more than one photomultiplier tube. This sharing of crystals and photomultiplier tubes allows identification of the staggered crystal and the use of smaller detectors shared by larger photomultiplier tubes thereby requiring less photomultiplier tubes, creating more scanning slices, providing better data sampling, and reducing the cost of the camera. The offset detector ring geometry combined with the additional septa reduces the cost of the positron camera and improves its performance.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4394576 (1983-07-01), Tanaka et al.
Derenzo, "Detectors, Sampling, Shielding, and Electronics for Positron Emission Tomography", Lawrence Berkeley Lab, LBL-13091, 08-81.
Burnham et al., "A Multicrystal Positron Camera", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 19(3), Jun. 1972, pp. 201-205.
Clayton Foundation for Research
Fields Carolyn E.
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