NEMA NU 2-2007 performance measurements of the Siemens Inveon™ preclinical small animal PET system

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作者
Kemp, Brad J. [1 ]
Hruska, Carrie B. [1 ]
McFarland, Aaron R. [2 ]
Lenox, Mark W. [2 ]
Lowe, Val J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Mayo Clin, Dept Radiol, Rochester, MN 55905 USA
[2] Siemens Med Solut, Preclin Collaborat, Knoxville, TN USA
关键词
IMAGING SMALL ANIMALS; TOMOGRAPHY-SCANNER; MICROPET; RESOLUTION;
D O I
10.1088/0031-9155/54/8/007
中图分类号
R318 [生物医学工程];
学科分类号
0831 ;
摘要
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) NU 2-2007 performance measurements were conducted on the Inveon (TM) preclinical small animal PET system developed by Siemens Medical Solutions. The scanner uses 1.51 x 1.51 x 10 mm LSO crystals grouped in 20 x 20 blocks; a tapered light guide couples the LSO crystals of a block to a position-sensitive photomultiplier tube. There are 80 rings with 320 crystals per ring and the ring diameter is 161 mm. The transaxial and axial fields of view (FOVs) are 100 and 127 mm, respectively. The scanner can be docked to a CT scanner; the performance characteristics of the CT component are not included herein. Performance measurements of spatial resolution, sensitivity, scatter fraction and count rate performance were obtained for different energy windows and coincidence timing window widths. For brevity, the results described here are for an energy window of 350-650 keV and a coincidence timing window of 3.43 ns. The spatial resolution at the center of the transaxial and axial FOVs was 1.56, 1.62 and 2.12 mm in the tangential, radial and axial directions, respectively, and the system sensitivity was 36.2 cps kBq(-1) for a line source (7.2% for a point source). For mouse-and rat-sized phantoms, the scatter fraction was 5.7% and 14.6%, respectively. The peak noise equivalent count rate with a noisy randoms estimate was 1475 kcps at 130 MBq for the mouse-sized phantom and 583 kcps at 74 MBq for the rat-sized phantom. The performance measurements indicate that the Inveon (TM) PET scanner is a high-resolution tomograph with excellent sensitivity that is capable of imaging at a high count rate.
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