ArticlePhysics in medicine and biology2018
Evaluation of a clinical TOF-PET detector design that achieves ⩽100 ps coincidence time resolution.
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Commercially available clinical positron emission tomography (PET) detectors employ scintillation crystals that are long ([Formula: see text]20 mm length) and narrow (4-5 mm width) optically coupled on their narrow end to a photosensor. The aspect ratio of this traditional crystal rod configuration and 511 keV photon attenuation properties yield significant variances in scintillation light collection efficiency and transit time to the photodetector, due to variations in the 511 keV photon interaction depth in the crystal. These variances contribute significant to coincidence time resolution degradation. If instead, crystals are coupled to a photosensor on their long side, near-complete light collection efficiency can be achieved, and scintillation photon transit time jitter is reduced. In this work, we compare the achievable coincidence time resolution (CTR) of LGSO:Ce(0.025 mol%) crystals 3-20 mm in length when optically coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) on either their short end or long side face. In this 'side readout' configuration, a CTR of 102 ± 2 ps FWHM was measured with [Formula: see text] mm
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