论文信息 - System performance Simulations of the RatCAP awake rat brain scanner

System performance Simulations of the RatCAP awake rat brain scanner

The capability to create high quality images from data acquired by the Rat Conscious Animal PET tomograph (RatCAP) has been evaluated using modified versions of the PET Monte Carlo code Simulation System for Emission Tomography (SimSET). The proposed tomograph consists of lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) crystals arranged in 12 4 /spl times/ 8 blocks. The effects of the RatCAPs small ring diameter (/spl sim/40 mm) and its block detector geometry on image quality for small animal studies have been investigated. Since the field of view will be almost as large as the ring diameter, radial elongation artifacts due to parallax error are expected to degrade the spatial resolution and thus the image quality at the edge of the field of view. In addition to Monte Carlo simulations, some preliminary results of experimentally acquired images in both two-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D modes are presented.

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