First test of liquid Xe scintillation detector for PET

Author

Nishikido, F. ; Doke, T. ; Kikuchi, J. ; Yamamoto, M. ; Mori, T. ; Takizawa, K.

Author_Institution

Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

10-16 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

1424

Abstract

Liquid Xe has a fast response (decay time of scintillation light: 2.2 ns, 22 ns and that of recombination light: 45 ns), and high scintillation yield which is comparable to that of NaI(Tl) crystal. These properties are considered to be suitable for position emission tomography (PET). We constructed a new PET detector using scintillation light from liquid Xe and measured energy resolution, position resolution and time resolution with plastic scintillator. The energy resolution, the position resolution and the time resolution were 30.0 %, 5.4 mm and 706 ps with one PMT, respectively.

Keywords

liquid scintillation detectors; position sensitive particle detectors; positron emission tomography; sodium compounds; thallium; xenon; 2.2 ns; 22 ns; 45 ns; NaI(Tl) crystal; NaI:Tl; PET; Xe; energy resolution; liquid Xe scintillation detector; plastic scintillator; position emission tomography; position resolution; time resolution; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Plastics; Position measurement; Positron emission tomography; Scintillation counters; Solid scintillation detectors; Testing; Time factors; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2002 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7636-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2002.1239588

Filename

1239588