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An educational tool for demonstrating the TOF-PET technique

Back, T ; Cederkäll, Joakim LU ; Cederwall, B ; Johnson, A ; Kerek, A ; Klamra, W ; van der Marel, J ; Molnar, J ; Novak, D and Sohler, D , et al. (2001) In Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment 471(1-2). p.200-204
Abstract
A detector system for positron emission tomography with time-of-flight capability has been built to serve as an educational tool for undergraduate students. The set-up consists of 48 BaF2 scintillator crystals, each coupled to a fast photo-multiplier tube, mounted in a circular geometry. The analogue detector pulses are handled by fast constant fraction discriminators. A dedicated unit reduces the 48 channels to eight channels via delay-fine encoding, and the signals are then fed to an eight channel fast time-to-digital converter. A VME processor sorts the events and sends them to a workstation where the coincident events are extracted. The time resolution of the detectors together with fast VME based electronics allows for time-of-flight... (More)
A detector system for positron emission tomography with time-of-flight capability has been built to serve as an educational tool for undergraduate students. The set-up consists of 48 BaF2 scintillator crystals, each coupled to a fast photo-multiplier tube, mounted in a circular geometry. The analogue detector pulses are handled by fast constant fraction discriminators. A dedicated unit reduces the 48 channels to eight channels via delay-fine encoding, and the signals are then fed to an eight channel fast time-to-digital converter. A VME processor sorts the events and sends them to a workstation where the coincident events are extracted. The time resolution of the detectors together with fast VME based electronics allows for time-of-flight measurements to improve on the signal-to-noise ratio in the, reconstructed images. The system can be used for different types of exercises for the students, varying from the fundamentals of scintillator detectors to advanced image reconstruction. The set-up is described and some results are presented. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)
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keywords
PET, TOF-PET, medical imaging
in
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment
volume
471
issue
1-2
pages
200 - 204
publisher
Elsevier
external identifiers
  • wos:000171206500039
  • scopus:9444228308
ISSN
0167-5087
DOI
10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00965-2
language
English
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  abstract     = {{A detector system for positron emission tomography with time-of-flight capability has been built to serve as an educational tool for undergraduate students. The set-up consists of 48 BaF2 scintillator crystals, each coupled to a fast photo-multiplier tube, mounted in a circular geometry. The analogue detector pulses are handled by fast constant fraction discriminators. A dedicated unit reduces the 48 channels to eight channels via delay-fine encoding, and the signals are then fed to an eight channel fast time-to-digital converter. A VME processor sorts the events and sends them to a workstation where the coincident events are extracted. The time resolution of the detectors together with fast VME based electronics allows for time-of-flight measurements to improve on the signal-to-noise ratio in the, reconstructed images. The system can be used for different types of exercises for the students, varying from the fundamentals of scintillator detectors to advanced image reconstruction. The set-up is described and some results are presented. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.}},
  author       = {{Back, T and Cederkäll, Joakim and Cederwall, B and Johnson, A and Kerek, A and Klamra, W and van der Marel, J and Molnar, J and Novak, D and Sohler, D and Steen, M and Uhlen, P}},
  issn         = {{0167-5087}},
  keywords     = {{PET; TOF-PET; medical imaging}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1-2}},
  pages        = {{200--204}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment}},
  title        = {{An educational tool for demonstrating the TOF-PET technique}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00965-2}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00965-2}},
  volume       = {{471}},
  year         = {{2001}},
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