Design and prototyping of a human brain PET scanner based on monolithic scintillators

Author

Mendes, P. Rato ; Alberdi, J. ; Cañadas, M. ; De Acilu, P. García ; Navarrete, J. ; Nuñez, L. ; Pérez, J.M. ; Romero, L. ; Sarasola, I. ; Willmott, C.

Author_Institution

CIEMAT (Centro de Investig. Energeticas, Tecnol. y Medioambientales), Madrid, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

2798

Lastpage

2800

Abstract

We are developing a PET insert for existing MRI equipment to be used in clinical PET/MR studies of the human brain. Previous results have demonstrated that our detector concept, based on monolithic scintillator crystals coupled to magnetically-compatible APD matrices with a dedicated ASIC front-end, is suitable for this application. In this work we present the final design of our PET scanner and report on the characterization of a prototype demonstrator used to validate the coincidence processing and data readout architecture.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; avalanche photodiodes; biomedical MRI; brain; positron emission tomography; readout electronics; scintillation counters; MRI equipment; coincidence processing; data readout; dedicated ASIC front-end; human brain PET scanner; magnetically-compatible APD matrices; monolithic scintillator crystals; monolithic scintillators; Application specific integrated circuits; Detectors; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9106-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874302

Filename

5874302