Energy, timing and position resolution studies with 16-pixel silicon photomultiplier matrices for small animal PET

Gabriela Llosà; Nicola Belcari; M. Giuseppina Bisogni; Gianmaria Collazuol; Sara Marcatili; Pierre Barrillon; Christophe De La Taille; Sylvie Bondil-Blin; Nicoleta Dinu; Mirko Melchiorri; Alessandro Tarolli; Claudio Piemonte; Alberto Del Guerra

doi:10.1109/TNS.2009.2030191

Energy, timing and position resolution studies with 16-pixel silicon photomultiplier matrices for small animal PET

Gabriela Llosà
, Nicola Belcari
, M. Giuseppina Bisogni
, Gianmaria Collazuol
, Sara Marcatili
, Pierre Barrillon
, Christophe De La Taille
, Sylvie Bondil-Blin
, Nicoleta Dinu
, Mirko Melchiorri
, Alessandro Tarolli
, Claudio Piemonte
, Alberto Del Guerra

Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Pisa
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
Linear Accelerator Laboratory
Université Paris-Sud
FBK-irst
FBK-irst

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Abstract

A high resolution small animal PET scanner that employs Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) matrices as photodetectors is under development at the University of Pisa and INFN Pisa. The first SiPM matrices fabricated by the Center for Scientific and Technological Research, FBK-irst (Trento, Italy), are being evaluated for this purpose. The devices are composed of 16 (4 ×4) pixel elements of 1 mm ×1 mm in a common substrate. The first tests have been carried out employing the ASIC MAROC2 for the readout. Energy and timing resolution, and position determination tests have been performed coupling both pixellated and continuous LYSO scintillator crystals to the matrix, and the results have been compared with the ones obtained for single SiPMs. The first tests on position determination with continuous crystals and SiPM matrices have been performed. An intrinsic spatial resolution of 0.61 mm FWHM has been obtained.

Original language	English
Article number	5280528
Pages (from-to)	2586-2593
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	56
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2009.2030191
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

G-APDs
Silicon photomultiplier
Small animal PET

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Llosà, G., Belcari, N., Bisogni, M. G., Collazuol, G., Marcatili, S., Barrillon, P., De La Taille, C., Bondil-Blin, S., Dinu, N., Melchiorri, M., Tarolli, A., Piemonte, C., & Del Guerra, A. (2009). Energy, timing and position resolution studies with 16-pixel silicon photomultiplier matrices for small animal PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 56(5), 2586-2593. Article 5280528. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2009.2030191

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