Feasibility study of imaging with tissue-scattered triple-γ coincidence events in Compton-PET
Abstract
Abstract The objective of the present work is to study Compton-PET imaging with single scattered (in tissue) data using a non-pure beta emitter (44Sc). Such radioisotopes are advantageous because of the extra gamma radiation to be used in triple-γ coincidences. Utilizing the single scattered events in conjunction with an additional gamma (1157 keV) emitted from 44Sc, provided us with an opportunity to obtain the direct images of the source activity distribution. The idea presented here is unique because there is hardly any imaging research with tissue-scattered data in the literature, especially for a Compton-PET system using a non-pure beta emitter. Initially, we described the locus of tissue-scattered point as a prolate spheroid surface or spindle toroid, which became two intersection points after using Compton cones from both ends of 511 keV photon detections. We considered a human-sized Compton-PET system of two types — (i) ideal and (ii) state-of-art scanner — depending on the energy and timing resolutions of detectors. The list-mode data were generated via GATE simulations. The appropriate trigger logic was applied using the two-window method to separate the events corresponding to single tissue-scattered and true (unscattered) coincidences. The imaging involves estimating the annihilation point for each triple-coincidence event using Compton cone of 1157 keV gamma and time-of-flight information for the 511 keV. Thus, we directly obtained images of the activity…
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