Testing of the spatial resolution and efficiency of scintillating fiber PET modules

R. C. Chaney; E. J. Fenyves; H. Hammack; G. Nelson; J. A. Anderson; P. P. Antich; M. Atac

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Testing of the spatial resolution and efficiency of scintillating fiber PET modules

R. C. Chaney, E. J. Fenyves, H. Hammack, G. Nelson, J. A. Anderson, P. P. Antich, M. Atac

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Two experimental PET camera modules were constructed using (1) two 5 × 5 × 2.5 cm³ detector stacks made of parallel 0.5 and 1.0 mm diameter scintillating fibers and (2) two 5 × 5 × 5 cm³ detector stacks made of alternating x and y layers of 0.5 and 1.0 mm diameter scintillating fibers. Each stack was viewed by Hamamatsu R2486 position sensitive photomultipliers. The time resolution of the coincidence system was 10 nsec. The spatial resolution and efficiency of the PET modules was tested using an approximately 1 μci 0.5 mm diameter Na-22 source. The best results were achieved with the 1.0 mm parallel fiber stacks: 2.0 mm spatial resolution (FWHM) and 2.3 % efficiency. Possibilities to improve the characteristics of this arrangement and, particularly, the alternating x and y layer sucks are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1472-1474
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	39
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/23.173226
State	Published - Oct 1992

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