We report on tests of a radionuclide imaging system for in vivo investigations in small animals with low energy gamma-rays as from 125I (27-35 keV). The system imaging optics features a high resolution coded aperture mask and a fine pitch silicon hybrid pixel detector of the Medipix2 series (55 μm pitch). The coded aperture (no-two-holes-touching MURA 62×62) had 70 μm holes in 75 μm tungsten, and was used in a 2:1 magnification for a field of view of about 7 mm. Laboratory tests with a 109Cd 22-keV source and in vivo mouse thyroid imaging tests with 125I show a system resolution of about 110 μm. This low energy, semiconductor-based, compact gamma camera is the basic imaging unit of a small animal single photon emission computed tomography system with deep sub-millimeter resolution.
Toward a Medipix2 coded aperture gamma microscope / R. A. C. C. O. R. S., I.; Autiero, Maddalena; Celentano, Luigi; Cozzolino, Rosanna; Laccetti, Paolo; R. C., Lanza; Marotta, Marcello; Mettivier, Giovanni; Montesi, MARIA CRISTINA; Riccio, Patrizia; Roberti, Giuseppe; Russo, Paolo. - 571:(2004), pp. 2461-2464. (Intervento presentato al convegno IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. and Medical Imaging Conference tenutosi a Roma nel Ottobre 16-22, 2004) [10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462754].
Toward a Medipix2 coded aperture gamma microscope
AUTIERO, MADDALENA;CELENTANO, LUIGI;COZZOLINO, ROSANNA;LACCETTI, PAOLO;MAROTTA, MARCELLO;METTIVIER, GIOVANNI;MONTESI, MARIA CRISTINA;RICCIO, PATRIZIA;ROBERTI, GIUSEPPE;RUSSO, PAOLO
2004
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We report on tests of a radionuclide imaging system for in vivo investigations in small animals with low energy gamma-rays as from 125I (27-35 keV). The system imaging optics features a high resolution coded aperture mask and a fine pitch silicon hybrid pixel detector of the Medipix2 series (55 μm pitch). The coded aperture (no-two-holes-touching MURA 62×62) had 70 μm holes in 75 μm tungsten, and was used in a 2:1 magnification for a field of view of about 7 mm. Laboratory tests with a 109Cd 22-keV source and in vivo mouse thyroid imaging tests with 125I show a system resolution of about 110 μm. This low energy, semiconductor-based, compact gamma camera is the basic imaging unit of a small animal single photon emission computed tomography system with deep sub-millimeter resolution.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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