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

作     者：ZHU Jie MA Wenyan ZHU Yufeng MA Hongguang WU Yuelei HU Huasi ZHANG Boping HUO Yonggang LIU Silu JIAN Bin WANG Zhaomin 

作者机构：The Second Artillery Engineering College Xi＇an 710025 China Nuclear Engineering Department School of Energy ＆ Engineering Xi＇an Jiaotong University Xi＇an 710049 China Department of Modern Physics University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 China Department of Electric Information Engineering Wuhan Polytechnic University Wuhan 430023 China 

出 版 物：《Nuclear Science and Techniques》 (核技术（英文）)

年 卷 期：2009年第20卷第1期

页      面：37-41页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 0827[工学-核科学与技术] 082701[工学-核能科学与工程] 

基　　金：Supported by National Foundation of Nature Science of China(No.10275063) 

主　　题：氢硼聚变 衰变 原子核 模拟 能谱 

摘      要：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 *** the ideal pinhole collimator must keep a compromise between spatial resolution and *** 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 *** 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 *** 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.