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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Design and Evaluation of Dual-ended Detectors for PET Mammography

Cuddy, Sarah Grace 06 December 2011 (has links)
Current positron emission mammography (PEM) depth of interaction (DOI) enabling detectors have low scintillator to photodetector encoding ratios, RE causing high system complexity and cost. The modularized dual-ended readout block (DERB) detector combines the Anger logic block detector with dual-ended readout to increase RE while measuring DOI. To investigate the trade-off between RE and spatial resolution, scalable DERB detectors with varying RE and light guide thickness were modelled with Monte- Carlo. Simulation showed RE can increase up to six-fold compared to the dual-ended readout design without significantly degrading spatial resolution. Experimental characterization of a RE = 9 : 8 DERB detector was found to achieve super-resolution <0.5 mm for resolving crystal indices, DOI resolution of ~5 mm FWHM, and mean energy resolution of 20% without recovering photons lost to neighbouring detector modules. The model was validated by agreement of simulation results adjusted for detector quantum efficiency with experimental results.
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Design and Evaluation of Dual-ended Detectors for PET Mammography

Cuddy, Sarah Grace 06 December 2011 (has links)
Current positron emission mammography (PEM) depth of interaction (DOI) enabling detectors have low scintillator to photodetector encoding ratios, RE causing high system complexity and cost. The modularized dual-ended readout block (DERB) detector combines the Anger logic block detector with dual-ended readout to increase RE while measuring DOI. To investigate the trade-off between RE and spatial resolution, scalable DERB detectors with varying RE and light guide thickness were modelled with Monte- Carlo. Simulation showed RE can increase up to six-fold compared to the dual-ended readout design without significantly degrading spatial resolution. Experimental characterization of a RE = 9 : 8 DERB detector was found to achieve super-resolution <0.5 mm for resolving crystal indices, DOI resolution of ~5 mm FWHM, and mean energy resolution of 20% without recovering photons lost to neighbouring detector modules. The model was validated by agreement of simulation results adjusted for detector quantum efficiency with experimental results.

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