logo

Monte-Carlo simulation of pinhole collimator of a small field of view gamma camera for small animal imaging

NUCLEAR ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION

Monte-Carlo simulation of pinhole collimator of a small field of view gamma camera for small animal imaging

ZHU Jie
MA Wenyan
ZHU Yufeng
MA Hongguang
WU Yuelei
HU Huasi
ZHANG Boping
HUO Yonggang
LIU Silu
JIAN Bin
WANG Zhaomin
Nuclear Science and TechniquesVol.20, No.1pp.37-41Published in print 20 Feb 2009
37702

Needs in scintimammography applications, especially for small animal cardiac imaging, lead to develop a small field of view, high spatial resolution gamma camera with a pinhole collimator. However the ideal pinhole collimator must keep a compromise between spatial resolution and sensitivity. In order to design a pinhole collimator with an optimized sensitivity and spatial resolution, the spatial resolution and the geometric sensitivity response as a function of the source to collimator distance has been obtained by means of Monte-Carlo simulation for a small field of view gamma camera with a pinhole collimator of various-hole diameters. The results show that the camera with pinhole of 1 mm, 1.5 mm and 2 mm diameter has respectively spatial resolution of 1.5 mm, 2.25 mm and 3 mm and geometric sensitivity of 0.016%, 0.022% and 0.036%, while the source to collimator distance is 3 cm. We chose the pinhole collimator with hole diameter size of 1.2 mm for our the gamma camera designed based on the trade-off between sensitivity and resolution.

Monte-Carlo simulationPinhole collimatorGamma cameraSmall field of viewHigh spatial resolution
References
[1] Bird A J, Ramsden D. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 1990, 299: 480-483.
[2] Majewski S, Farzanpay F, Goode A, et al. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 1998, 409: 520-523.
[3] Garibaldi F, Cisbani E, Cusanno F, et al. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 2001, 471: 222-228.
[4] Craig S L. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 2003, 497: 60-74.
[5] Pani R, Pellegrini R, Cinti M N, et al. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 2004, 527: 54-57.
[6] GEANT,

Detector Description and Simulation Tool, Application Software Group

. < http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/geantole/GEANTMAIN.html>.
Baidu ScholarGoogle Scholar
[7] Pani R, Scafe R, Pellegrini R, et al. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 2002, 477: 72-76.
[8] Position sensitive photomultiplier tube with crossed wire anodes R2486 series, Specifications manual (in Japanese). Hamamatsu: K.K. Electron Tube Center, 1993: 1-53. http://www.Hamamatsu.com.
[9] Guerra D, Belcari N. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys A, 2007, 583: 119-124.