Photodetectors for nuclear medical imaging

✍ Scribed by William W. Moses

• Book ID: 104066889
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 290 KB
• Volume: 610
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.05.032

✦ Synopsis

There have been a number of recent advances in photodetector technology, notably in photomultiplier tubes with high quantum efficiency (up to ~50%), hybrid photodetectors, and silicon-based Geiger-mode photodetectors. This paper looks at the potential benefits that these technologies can bring to nuclear medicine, notably SPECT and PET. We find that while the potential benefits to SPECT are relatively small, they can bring performance improvements in many areas for PET.