A modified spatial resolution formula for DOI-PET

Author

Xia, Yan ; Ma, Tianyu ; Liu, Yaqiang ; Wang, Shi ; Shao, Yiping

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Phys., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

2632

Lastpage

2635

Abstract

To evaluate the spatial resolution performance of PET systems, Derenzo published an analytic resolution formula in 1993 to analytically calculate spatial resolution in the center of FOV which accounts for impacts of geometrical, instrumental, reconstruction and physical factors and is now widely used to guide PET system design. Extending from this study, the crystal size is replaced by FWHM of coincidence response function, and then a modified approximate spatial resolution formula for circular configured DOI-PET is presented. This formula can account for the DOI resolution and estimate the overall system resolution over the entire FOV. With this formula, one can also predict uniform resolution condition and best achievable resolution. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to test the formula. Formula agreed well with experimental results.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; image reconstruction; image resolution; medical image processing; positron emission tomography; FWHM; Monte Carlo simulations; circular configured DOI-PET system; coincidence response function; crystal size; geometrical factors; image reconstruction; instrumental factors; modified spatial resolution formula; physical factors; Image resolution; Logic gates; Medical services; Positron emission tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6152705

Filename

6152705