Beta camera low activity tumor imaging
Ljunggren, Kaj LU ; Strand, Sven-Erik LU ; Ceberg, Crister LU
; Sjöholm, Hans
; Elmqvist, Dan
; Brun, Arne
LU
and Salford, Leif
LU
(1993)
In Acta Oncologica
32(7-8).
p.869-872
- Abstract
- A new technique, the beta camera, to complement film autoradiography, with fast quantitative imaging of beta particle-emitting radionuclides has been developed. It consists of a thin plastic scintillator and a light-sensitive microchannel plate detector. The thin tissue sample is mounted on the scintillator. Our first system had a high background and a moderate spatial resolution of 900 microns. We now report an improved system with a photomultiplier tube mounted on the scintillator of the microchannel plate detector. Only events registered by both detectors are accepted. A fast coincidence unit processes the signals, and if a time overlap exists, an event is generated in the beta camera. In the coincidence mode, images with low activity... (More)
- A new technique, the beta camera, to complement film autoradiography, with fast quantitative imaging of beta particle-emitting radionuclides has been developed. It consists of a thin plastic scintillator and a light-sensitive microchannel plate detector. The thin tissue sample is mounted on the scintillator. Our first system had a high background and a moderate spatial resolution of 900 microns. We now report an improved system with a photomultiplier tube mounted on the scintillator of the microchannel plate detector. Only events registered by both detectors are accepted. A fast coincidence unit processes the signals, and if a time overlap exists, an event is generated in the beta camera. In the coincidence mode, images with low activity distribution of 201Tl (count rate 1 s-1) in 50 microns-thick slices of a human glioma tumor could be recorded with a spatial resolution of 500 microns. (Less)
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- Ljunggren, Kaj
LU
; Strand, Sven-Erik
LU
; Ceberg, Crister
LU
; Sjöholm, Hans
; Elmqvist, Dan
; Brun, Arne
LU
and Salford, Leif
LU
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- publishing date
- 1993
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
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- Acta Oncologica
- volume
- 32
- issue
- 7-8
- pages
- 869 - 872
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
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- pmid:8305238
- scopus:0027716103
- ISSN
- 1651-226X
- DOI
- 10.3109/02841869309096148
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Radiation Physics, Lund (013034000), Neurosurgery (013026000), Pathology, (Lund) (013030000)
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