A digital phoswich detector using time-over-threshold for depth of interaction in PET.

Physics in Medicine and Biology
David L ProutArion F Chatziioannou

Abstract

We present the performance of a digital phoswich positron emission tomography (PET) detector, composed by layers of pixilated scintillator arrays, read out by solid state light detectors and an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). We investigated the use of integrated charge from the scintillation pulses along with time-over-threshold (ToT) to determine the layer of interaction (DOI) in the scintillator. Simulations were performed to assess the effectiveness of the ToT measurements for separating the scintillator events and identifying cross-layer-crystal-scatter (CLCS) events. These simulations indicate that ToT and charge integration from such a detector provide sufficient information to determine the layer of interaction. To demonstrate this in practice, we used a pair of prototype LYSO/BGO detectors. One detector consisted of a 19 × 19 array of 7 mm long LYSO crystals (1.36 mm pitch) coupled to a 16 × 16 array of 8 mm long BGO crystals (1.63 mm pitch). The other detector was similar except the LYSO crystal pitch was 1.63 mm. These detectors were coupled to an 8 × 8 multi-pixel photon counter mounted on a PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC. This high performance ASIC provided digital readout of the integrated charge and ToT from...Continue Reading

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