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NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 12, Pages 4652-4659Publisher
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2022.07.020
Keywords
Nuclear medicine; Gamma camera imaging; Semiconductor detector; Thallium bromide (TlBr) material; Geant4 application for tomographic; emission (GATE) simulation; Quality control phantom; Quantitative analysis of image performance
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This study quantitatively evaluated the usefulness of thallium bromide (TlBr) as a detector material for gamma camera imaging. The results demonstrated that TlBr detectors showed better image quality compared with other detector materials.
Among the detector materials available at room temperature, thallium bromide (TlBr), which has a relatively high atomic number and density, is widely used for gamma camera imaging. This study aimed to verify the usefulness of TlBr through quantitative evaluation by modeling detectors of various com-pound types using Monte Carlo simulations. The Geant4 application for tomographic emission was used for simulation, and detectors based on cadmium zinc telluride and cadmium telluride materials were selected as a comparison group. A pixel-matched parallel-hole collimator with proven excellent per-formance was modeled, and phantoms used for quality control in nuclear medicine were used. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), contrast to noise ratio (CNR), sensitivity, and full width at half maximum (FWHM) were used for quantitative analysis to evaluate the image quality. The SNR, CNR, sensitivity, and FWHM for the TlBr detector material were approximately 1.05, 1.04, 1.41, and 1.02 times, respectively, higher than those of the other detector materials. The SNR, CNR and sensitivity increased with increasing detector thickness, but the spatial resolution in terms of FWHM decreased. Thus, we demonstrated the feasibility and possibility of using the TlBr detector material in comparison with commercial detector materials.(c) 2022 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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