A Monte Carlo based simulation of an high speed ADC-based TOF-PET read-out system

Author

Brekke, Njål ; Röhrich, Dieter ; Ullaland, Ketil ; Gruner, Renate

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radiol., Haukeland Univ. Hosp., Bergen, Norway

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

3022

Lastpage

3024

Abstract

Software for a Monte Carlo based simulation of a future Time-of-Flight (TOF) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) system´s scintillator geometry, multi-pixel silicon photomultiplier and high-speed Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) readout system has been developed. Results from running simulations with different ADC sampling-rates and analog filter time constants are being presented. A trigger-system suitable for running real time in FPGAs, a digital constant fraction zero crossing discriminator, are used to determine the full system time resolution.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; analogue-digital conversion; field programmable gate arrays; filters; image resolution; image sampling; medical image processing; photomultipliers; positron emission tomography; scintillation counters; FPGA; Monte Carlo simulation; analog filter time constants; analog to digital converter; digital constant fraction zero crossing discriminator; full system time resolution; high speed ADC-based TOF-PET read-out system; multipixel silicon photomultiplier; sampling rates; scintillator geometry; time-of-flight positron emission tomography; trigger system; Crystals; Low pass filters; Monte Carlo methods; Optical filters; Photonics; Positron emission tomography; Timing;

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.2010.5874353

Filename

5874353