Photomultipliers With the Screening Grid at the Anode for TOF PET Block Detectors

被引：1

作者：

Moszynski, M. ^{[1
]}

Szczesniak, T. ^{[1
]}

Grodzicka, M.

Leclercq, R. ^{[2
]}

West, A. ^{[2
]}

Kapusta, M. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Ctr Nucl Res, PL-05400 Otwock, Poland

[2] ADIT, Sweetwater, TX 79556 USA

[3] Siemens Healthcare, Mol Imaging, Knoxville, TN 37932 USA

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE | 2016年 / 63卷 / 06期

关键词：

Fast PMTs; fast timing; LSO scintillator; time-of-flight PET; OF-FLIGHT PET; SCINTILLATORS; PROSPECTS; XP20D0; LSO;

D O I：

10.1109/TNS.2016.2614323

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

In spite of the excellent performance of SiPMs in the application of time-of-flight PET detectors, the development of better photomultipliers for PET detectors is still worth considering. Fast timing with detectors based on the PMT light readout depends mainly on the time jitter and the quantum efficiency of the PMTs. Several studies in the past showed that a screening grid at the anode significantly improves the time resolution when measured with scintillation detectors. ADIT Co. has started a development of a 1 '' diameter fast PMT with the screening grid at the anode to be applied in the block detectors in TOF PET scanners. In the presented studies, we report the first comparative study of the L25, a classical PMT, with one that is equipped with a screening grid. Adding the screening grid yielded a large improvement in the time resolution, up to a factor of 1.2.

引用

页码：2772 / 2776

页数：5

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