Title :
Development of skin surface radiation detector system to monitor radioactivity in arterial blood along with positron emission tomography
Author :
Watabe, Hiroshi ; Miyake, Masayasu ; Narita, Yuichirou ; Nakamura, Takashi ; Itoh, Masatoshi
Author_Institution :
Nat. Cardiovascular Center Res. Inst., Osaka, Japan
fDate :
8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A noninvasive blood radioactivity monitor system for positron emission tomography (PET) study has been developed. This system has dual plastic scintillators to detect positrons from the wrist artery. One is for monitoring the blood radioactivity in artery and tissue, and another is for monitoring only in tissue, in order to subtract background radiation from tissue. The authors carried out phantom experiments for evaluating basic characteristics of this monitor system. Clinical experiments using 15O-labeled water were also done to compare this system with a conventional invasive monitor
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; blood; positron emission tomography; radioactivity measurement; solid scintillation detectors; 15O-labeled water; PET; arterial blood; background radiation; dual plastic scintillators; medical instrumentation; noninvasive blood radioactivity monitor system; nuclear medicine; skin surface radiation detector system; wrist artery; Arteries; Blood; Imaging phantoms; Plastics; Positron emission tomography; Radiation detectors; Radiation monitoring; Skin; Solid scintillation detectors; Wrist;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
