Performance evaluation of the plate and array types of NaI(Tl), CsI(Tl) and CsI(Na) for small gamma camera using PSPMT

Author

Seo, H.K. ; Choi, Y. ; Kim, J.H. ; Im, K.C. ; Woo, S.K. ; Choe, Y.S. ; Lee, K.-H. ; Kim, S.E. ; Choi, Y.I. ; Kim, B.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nucl. Med., Sungkyunkwan Univ. Sch. of Med., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Abstract

The intrinsic performances of the plate and array types of NaI(Tl), CsI(Tl) and CsI(Na) were measured to evaluate the characteristics of the popular scintillators employed for the development of small gamma cameras. Sensitivities, energy resolution and spatial resolution of the six scintillators, optically coupled to a Hamamatsu R3941 PSPMT, were measured for 140 keV using a gamma camera developed in the authors´ laboratory. All the array type scintillators presented good spatial resolution (<2 mm) and the plate type scintillators provided better sensitivities than the array type scintillators. NaI(Tl)-plate showed the best sensitivity and energy resolution (16.8%) but the worst spatial resolution (1.3 mm) but the worst sensitivity. Among the plate type scintillators, CsI(Tl) provided good sensitivity and energy resolution (18.2%) close to the plate type scintillators with modest sacrifice in spatial resolution

Keywords

arrays; biomedical equipment; cameras; gamma-ray detection; image resolution; photomultipliers; radioisotope imaging; solid scintillation detectors; 140 keV; CsI(Na); CsI(Tl); CsI:Na; CsI:Tl; Hamamatsu R3941 PSPMT; NaI(Tl); NaI:Tl; PSPMT; array type; energy resolution; medical diagnostic imaging; medical instrumentation; nuclear medicine; plate type; sensitivity; small gamma camera; spatial resolution; Cameras; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Optical coupling; Optical sensors; Performance evaluation; Sea measurements; Spatial resolution; Surface treatment; Windows;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6503-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949358

Filename

949358