SiliPET: An ultra-high resolution design of a small animal PET scanner based on stacks of double-sided silicon strip detector

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 571, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 22-25

  Di Domenico, Giovanni ^a,b   Zavattini, Guido ^a,b   Cesca, Nicola ^a   Auricchio, Natalia ^a,b   Andritschke, Robert ^c   Schopper, Florian ^c   Kanbach, Gottfried ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Molecular imaging; Positron emission tomography; Small animal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

MOLECULAR IMAGING; SILICON STRIP DETECTORS; SMALL ANIMALS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846340688     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.330     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. R.S. Miyaoka, S.G. Kohlmyer, T.K. Lewellen, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-48 1403.
2. C.Y. Tai, A. Chatziioannou, Y.F. Young, R.W. Silverman, K. Meadors, S. Siegel, D. Newport, J. Stickel, S. Cherry, Phys. Med. Biol. 48 1519.
3. J. Seidel, J.J. Vaquero, M.V. Green, Resolution uniformity and sensitivity of the NIH ATLAS small animal PET scanner: comparison to simulated LSO scanners without depth-of-interaction capability, IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec. (2001) 1555.
4. G. Zavattini, A. Del Guerra, N. Cesca, G. Di Domenico, M. Gambaccini, E. Moretti, N. Sabba, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-51 222.
5. I. Kawrakow, D.W.O. Rogers, The EGSNrc Code System: Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon transport, NRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada, NRCC Rep. PIRS-701, 2001.
6. Kanbach G., et al. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 541 (2005) 310
7. Bloser P., et al. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 512 (2003) 220