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Akram MSH, Nishikido F, Levin CS, Takyu S, Obata T, Yamaya T. MRI compatibility study of a prototype radiofrequency penetrable oval PET insert at 3 T. Jpn J Radiol 2024; 42:382-390. [PMID: 38110835 DOI: 10.1007/s11604-023-01514-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE To perform an MRI compatibility study of an RF field-penetrable oval-shaped PET insert that implements an MRI built-in body RF coil both as a transmitter and a receiver. METHODS Twelve electrically floating RF shielded PET detector modules were used to construct the prototype oval PET insert with a major axis of 440 mm, a minor axis of 350 mm, and an axial length of 225 mm. The electric floating of the PET detector modules was accomplished by isolating the cable shield from the detector shield using plastic tape. Studies were conducted on the transmit (B1) RF field, the image signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and the RF pulse amplitude for a homogeneous cylindrical (diameter: 160 mm and length: 260 mm) phantom (NaCl + NiSO4 solution) in a 3 T clinical MRI system (Verio, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). RESULTS The B1 maps for the oval insert were similar to the MRI-only field responses. Compared to the MRI-only values, SNR reductions of 51%, 45%, and 59% were seen, respectively, for the spin echo (SE), gradient echo (GE), and echo planar (EPI) images for the case of oval PET insert. Moreover, the required RF pulse amplitudes for the SE, GE, and EPI sequences were, respectively, 1.93, 1.85, and 1.36 times larger. However, a 30% reduction in the average RF reception sensitivity was observed for the oval insert. CONCLUSIONS The prototype floating PET insert was a safety concern for the clinical MRI system, and this compatibility study provided clearance for developing a large body size floating PET insert for the existing MRI system. Because of the RF shield of the insert, relatively large RF powers compared to the MRI-only case were required. Because of this and also due to low RF sensitivity of the body coil, the SNRs reduced largely.
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- Md Shahadat Hossain Akram
- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-5128, USA
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied MRI Research, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Akram MSH, Levin CS, Nishikido F, Takyu S, Obata T, Yamaya T. Study on the radiofrequency transparency of partial-ring oval-shaped prototype PET inserts in a 3 T clinical MRI system. Radiol Phys Technol 2024; 17:60-70. [PMID: 37874462 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-023-00747-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the RF field responses of partial-ring RF-shielded oval-shaped positron emission tomography (PET) inserts that are used in combination with an MRI body RF coil. Partial-ring PET insert is particularly suitable for interventional investigation (e.g., trimodal PET/MRI/ultrasound imaging) and intraoperative (e.g., robotic surgery) PET/MRI studies. In this study, we used electrically floating Faraday RF shield cages to construct different partial-ring configurations of oval and cylindrical PET inserts and performed experiments on the RF field, spin echo and gradient echo images for a homogeneous phantom in a 3 T clinical MRI system. For each geometry, partial-ring configurations were studied by removing an opposing pair or a single shield cage from different positions of the PET ring. Compared to the MRI-only case, reduction in mean RF homogeneity, flip angle, and SNR for the detector opening in the first and third quadrants was approximately 13%, 15%, and 43%, respectively, whereas the values were 8%, 23%, and 48%, respectively, for the detector openings in the second and fourth quadrants. The RF field distribution also varied for different partial-ring configurations. It can be concluded that the field penetration was high for the detector openings in the first and third quadrants of both the inserts.
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- Md Shahadat Hossain Akram
- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305-5128, USA
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied MRI Research, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Anagawa 4-9-1, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Nitta M, Nishikido F, Inadama N, Hirano Y, Yamaya T. Discrimination of inter-crystal scattering events by signal processing for the X'tal cube PET detector. Radiol Phys Technol 2023; 16:516-531. [PMID: 37782423 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-023-00740-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Inter-crystal scattering (ICS) events cause degradation of the contrast in PET images. We developed the X'tal cube PET detector with submillimeter spatial resolution, which consisted of a segmented LYSO scintillator and 96 MPPCs. For this high spatial resolution PET detector, the ICS event was not negligible. In this study, we proposed a method to discriminate the ICS events and showed its feasibility by the following method. For each 96 MPPC, we measured the mean and standard deviation of the peak in the pulse height distribution obtained by the photoabsorption events in a scintillator pixel. Every time a newly detected event was identified as the segment, we monitored the reduced chi-square value that was calculated with the pulse height and the prepared mean and the standard deviation for each 96 MPPC. Since the pulse height caused by the photoabsorption event resulted in a small reduced chi-square value, we could eliminate the ICS events by setting a threshold on the reduced chi-square value. We carried out both a Monte Carlo simulation and a scanning experiment. By the simulation, we confirmed that the threshold of the reduced chi square significantly discriminated the ICS event. We obtained the response function by a scanning experiment with a 0.2 mm slit beam of 511 keV gamma-ray. The standard deviation of the response function was improved from 1.6 to 1.06 mm by eliminating the ICS events. The proposed method could significantly eliminate the ICS events and retain the true events.
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- Munetaka Nitta
- Faculty of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-Cho, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan.
- National Institutes of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan.
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- National Institutes of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- National Institutes of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, 65, Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 466-8550, Japan
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- National Institutes of Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Aung W, Tsuji AB, Rikiyama K, Nishikido F, Obara S, Higashi T. Imaging assessment of photosensitizer emission induced by radionuclide-derived Cherenkov radiation using charge-coupled device optical imaging and long-pass filters. World J Radiol 2023; 15:315-323. [PMID: 38058603 PMCID: PMC10696188 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v15.i11.315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Radionuclides produce Cherenkov radiation (CR), which can potentially activate photosensitizers (PSs) in phototherapy. Several groups have studied Cherenkov energy transfer to PSs using optical imaging; however, cost-effectively identifying whether PSs are excited by radionuclide-derived CR and detecting fluorescence emission from excited PSs remain a challenge. Many laboratories face the need for expensive dedicated equipment. AIM To cost-effectively confirm whether PSs are excited by radionuclide-derived CR and distinguish fluorescence emission from excited PSs. METHODS The absorbance and fluorescence spectra of PSs were measured using a microplate reader and fluorescence spectrometer to examine the photo-physical properties of PSs. To mitigate the need for expensive dedicated equipment and achieve the aim of the study, we developed a method that utilizes a charge-coupled device optical imaging system and appropriate long-pass filters of different wavelengths (manual sequential application of long-pass filters of 515, 580, 645, 700, 750, and 800 nm). Tetrakis (4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin (TCPP) was utilized as a model PS. Different doses of copper-64 (64CuCl2) (4, 2, and 1 mCi) were used as CR-producing radionuclides. Imaging and data acquisition were performed 0.5 h after sample preparation. Differential image analysis was conducted by using ImageJ software (National Institutes of Health) to visually evaluate TCPP fluorescence. RESULTS The maximum absorbance of TCPP was at 390-430 nm, and the emission peak was at 670 nm. The CR and CR-induced TCPP emissions were observed using the optical imaging system and the high-transmittance long-pass filters described above. The emission spectra of TCPP with a peak in the 645-700 nm window were obtained by calculation and subtraction based on the serial signal intensity (total flux) difference between 64CuCl2 + TCPP and 64CuCl2. Moreover, the differential fluorescence images of TCPP were obtained by subtracting the 64CuCl2 image from the 64CuCl2 + TCPP image. The experimental results considering different 64CuCl2 doses showed a dose-dependent trend. These results demonstrate that a bioluminescence imaging device coupled with different long-pass filters and subtraction image processing can confirm the emission spectra and differential fluorescence images of CR-induced TCPP. CONCLUSION This simple method identifies the PS fluorescence emission generated by radionuclide-derived CR and can contribute to accelerating the development of Cherenkov energy transfer imaging and the discovery of new PSs.
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- Winn Aung
- Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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Tashima H, Nishina T, Takyu S, Nishikido F, Suga M, Yamaya T. Optimum selection for multi-interaction events in Compton-PET hybrid reconstruction: a Monte Carlo study. Radiol Phys Technol 2023; 16:254-261. [PMID: 36943646 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-023-00714-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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In Compton PET, that has a scatterer inserted inside a PET ring, there are multi-interaction events that can be treated as both PET and Compton events. A PET event from multi-interaction events that include a Compton event and a photoelectric absorption event or two Compton events can be extracted by applying a PET recovery method. In this study, we aimed to establish a method to maximize image quality by utilizing such redundant events. We conducted brain-scale Monte Carlo simulations of a C-shaped Compton-PET geometry and a whole gamma imaging (WGI) geometry. Images were reconstructed by a hybrid image reconstruction method combining both PET and Compton events. The result showed that the spatial resolution was improved when treated as PET events while keeping the noise level. The effect of improvement was more significant in WGI than in C-shaped Compton PET because the number of events recovered as PET events having more accurate spatial information was much larger in WGI. When the PET-recovered multi-interaction events were also included as Compton events in the hybrid reconstruction, we did not observe any improvement in image quality, while the number of used events was largest. The results suggested that treating events as PET events exclusively was better for image quality.
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- Hideaki Tashima
- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan.
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
- Medical Engineering Course, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33, Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Medical Engineering Course, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33, Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
- Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, 1-33, Yayoicho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8522, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Takyu S, Tashima H, Nishikido F, Kamada K, Yoshikawa A, Yamaya T. The Correlation Between Scatter Detector Performance and Spatial Resolution in a Ring-shaped Compton Imaging System. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci 2023. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2023.3262814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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Kang HG, Tashima H, Wakizaka H, Nishikido F, Higuchi M, Takahashi M, Yamaya T. Submillimeter resolution positron emission tomography for high-sensitivity mouse brain imaging. J Nucl Med 2022:jnumed.122.264433. [PMID: 36581375 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.122.264433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful molecular imaging technique that can provide functional information of living objects. However, the spatial resolution of PET imaging has been limited to around 1 mm which makes it difficult to visualize mouse brain functions in detail. Here we report an ultrahigh resolution small animal PET scanner we developed that can provide a resolution approaching 0.6 mm to visualize the mouse brain functions with unprecedented detail. Methods: The ultrahigh resolution small animal PET scanner had 52.5 mm inner diameter and 51.5 mm axial coverage. The PET scanner consisted of 4 rings each of which had 16 DOI detectors. Each DOI detector consisted of a 3-layer staggered LYSO crystal array with a pitch of 1 mm and 4×4 SiPM array. The physical performance was evaluated in accordance with the NEMA NU4 protocol. The spatial resolution was evaluated with various resolution phantoms. In vivo glucose metabolism imaging of mouse brain was performed. Results: The peak absolute sensitivity was 2.84% with an energy window of 400-600 keV. The 0.55 mm rod structure of a resolution phantom was resolved using the iterative algorithm. The in vivo mouse brain imaging with 18F-FDG showed clear identification of cortex, thalamus, and hypothalamus which were barely distinguishable in a commercial preclinical PET scanner that we used for imaging comparison. Conclusion: The developed ultrahigh resolution small animal PET scanner is a promising molecular imaging tool for neuroscience research using rodent models.
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- Han Gyu Kang
- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan
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- National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan
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- National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan
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- National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan
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- National Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan
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Takyu S, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Obata F, Tashima H, Kamada K, Yoshikawa A, Yamaya T. Development of a Two-Layer Staggered GAGG Scatter Detector for Whole Gamma Imaging. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2021.3131811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Sodai Takyu
- Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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Mohammadi A, Tashima H, Takyu S, Iwao Y, Akamatsu G, Kang HG, Obata F, Nishikido F, Parodi K, Yamaya T. Feasibility of triple gamma ray imaging of 10C for range verification in ion therapy. Phys Med Biol 2022; 67. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac826a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective. In carbon ion therapy, the visualization of the range of incident particles in a patient body is important for treatment verification. In-beam positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is one of the methods to verify the treatment in ion therapy due to the high quality of PET images. We have shown the feasibility of in-beam PET imaging of radioactive 15O and 11C ion beams for range verification using our OpenPET system. Recently, we developed a whole gamma imager (WGI) that can simultaneously work as PET, single gamma ray and triple gamma ray imaging. The WGI has high potential to detect the location of 10C, which emits positrons with a simultaneous gamma ray of 718 keV, within the patient’s body during ion therapy. Approach. In this work, we focus on investigating the performance of WGI for 10C imaging and its feasibility for range verification in carbon ion therapy. First, the performance of the WGI was studied to image a 10C point source using the Geant4 toolkit. Then, the feasibility of WGI was investigated for an irradiated polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) phantom with a 10C ion beam at the carbon therapy facility of the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba. Main results. The average spatial resolution and sensitivity for the simulated 10C point source at the centre of the field of view were 5.5 mm FWHM and 0.010%, respectively. The depth dose of the 10C ion beam was measured, and the triple gamma image of 10C nuclides for an irradiated PMMA phantom was obtained by applying a simple back projection to the detected triple gammas. Significance. The shift between Bragg peak position and position of the peak of the triple gamma image in an irradiated PMMA phantom was 2.8 ± 0.8 mm, which demonstrates the capability of triple gamma imaging using WGI for range verification of 10C ion beams.
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Akram MSH, Obata T, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. Study on the RF transparency of electrically floating and ground PET inserts in a 3T clinical MRI system. Med Phys 2022; 49:2965-2978. [PMID: 35271749 DOI: 10.1002/mp.15588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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PURPOSE The positron emission tomography (PET) insert for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system that implements the radiofrequency (RF) built-in body coil of the MRI system as a transmitter is designed to be RF-transparent, as the coil resides outside the RF-shielded PET ring. This approach reduces the design complexities (e.g., large PET ring diameter) related to implementing a transmit coil inside the PET ring. However, achieving the required field transmission into the imaging region of interest (ROI) becomes challenging because of the RF shield of the PET insert. In this study, a modularly RF-shielded PET insert is used to investigate the RF transparency considering two electrical configurations of the RF shield, namely the electrical floating and ground configurations. The purpose is to find the differences, advantages and disadvantages of these two configurations. METHODS Eight copper-shielded PET detector modules (intermodular gap: 3 mm) were oriented cylindrically with an inner-diameter of 234 mm. Each PET module included four-layer LYSO scintillation crystal blocks and front-end readout electronics. RF-shielded twisted-pair cables were used to connect the front-end electronics with the power sources and PET data acquisition systems located outside the MRI room. In the ground configuration, both the detector and cable shields were connected to the RF ground of the MRI system. In the floating configuration, only the RF shields of the PET modules were isolated from the RF ground. Experiments were conducted using two cylindrical homogeneous phantoms in a 3T clinical MRI system, in which the built-in body RF coil (a cylindrical volume coil of diameter 700 mm and length 540 mm) was implemented as a transceiver. RESULTS For both PET configurations, the RF and MR imaging performances were lower than those for the MRI-only case, and the MRI-system provided SAR values that were almost double. The RF homogeneity and field strength, and the SNR of the MR images were mostly higher for the floating PET configuration than they were for the ground PET configuration. However, for a shorter axial FOV of 125 mm, both configurations offered almost the same performance with high RF homogeneities (e.g., 76 ± 10%). Moreover, for both PET configurations, 56 ± 6% larger RF pulse amplitudes were required for MR imaging purposes. The increased power is mostly absorbed in the conductive shields in the form of shielding RF eddy currents; as a result, the SAR values only in the phantoms were estimated to be close to the MRI-only values. CONCLUSIONS The floating PET configuration showed higher RF transparency under all experimental setups. For a relatively short axial FOV of 125 mm, the ground configuration also performed well which indicated that an RF-penetrable PET insert with the conventional design (e.g., the ground configuration) might also become possible. However, some design modifications (e.g., a wider intermodular gap and using the RF receiver coil inside the PET insert) should improve the RF performance to the level of the MRI-only case. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Md Shahadat Hossain Akram
- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science in the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 263-8555 Chiba, Inage, Anagawa 4-9-1, Japan
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- Department of Applied MRI Research, National Institute of Radiological Sciences in the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (NIRS-QST), 263-8555 Chiba, Inage, Anagawa 4-9-1, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science in the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 263-8555 Chiba, Inage, Anagawa 4-9-1, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Institute of Quantum Medical Science in the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 263-8555 Chiba, Inage, Anagawa 4-9-1, Japan
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Kang HG, Kim KJ, Kamada K, Yoshikawa A, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. Optimization of GFAG crystal surface treatment for SiPM based TOF PET detector. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2022; 8. [PMID: 35180713 DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ac56c6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Coincidence timing resolution (CTR) is an important parameter in clinical positron emission tomography (PET) scanners to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of PET images by using time-of-flight (TOF) information. Lutetium (Lu) based scintillators are often used for TOF-PET systems. However, the self-radiation of Lu-based scintillators may influence the image quality for ultra-low activity PET imaging. Recently, a gadolinium fine aluminum gallate (Ce:GFAG) scintillation crystal that features a fast decay time (~55 ns) and no self-radiation was developed. The present study aimed at optimizing the GFAG crystal surface treatment to enhance both CTR and energy resolution (ER). The TOF-PET detector consisted of a GFAG crystal (3.0 × 3.0 × 20 mm3) and a SiPM with an effective area of 3.0 × 3.0 mm2. The timing and energy signals were extracted using a high-frequency SiPM readout circuit and then were digitized using a CAMAC DAQ system. The CTR and ER were evaluated with nine different crystal surface treatments such as partial saw-cut and chemical polishing and the 1-side saw-cut was the best choice among the treatments. The respective CTR and ER of 202±2 ps and 9.5±0.1% were obtained with the 1-side saw-cut; the other 5-side mechanically polished GFAG crystals had respective values which were 18 ps (9.0%) and 1.3% better than those of the all-side mechanically polished GFAG crystal. The chemically polished GFAG crystals also offered enhanced CTR and ER of about 17 ps (8.2%) and 2.1%, respectively, over the mechanically polished GFAG crystals.
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- Han Gyu Kang
- Department of Nuclear Medicine Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and technology, Imaging Physics Group, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba Japan, Chiba, Chiba, 263-8555, JAPAN
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- Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Sendai 980 8577, Japan, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, JAPAN
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- New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku,, Sendai, JP, 980-8577, JAPAN
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- Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Sendai 980 8577, Japan, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8577, JAPAN
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- Advanced Nuclear Medicine Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan, Chiba, 263-8555, JAPAN
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Technology, 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan, Chiba, Chiba, 263-8555, JAPAN
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- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, JAPAN, Chiba, 263-8555, JAPAN
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Kang HG, Tashima H, Nishikido F, Akamatsu G, Wakizaka H, Higuchi M, Yamaya T. Initial results of a mouse brain PET insert with a staggered 3-layer DOI detector. Phys Med Biol 2021; 66. [PMID: 34666328 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac311c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Objective.Small animal positron emission tomography (PET) requires a submillimeter resolution for better quantification of radiopharmaceuticals. On the other hand, depth-of-interaction (DOI) information is essential to preserve the spatial resolution while maintaining the sensitivity. Recently, we developed a staggered 3-layer DOI detector with 1 mm crystal pitch and 15 mm total crystal thickness, but we did not demonstrate the imaging performance of the DOI detector with full ring geometry. In this study we present initial imaging results obtained for a mouse brain PET prototype developed with the staggered 3-layer DOI detector.Approach.The prototype had 53 mm inner diameter and 11 mm axial field-of-view. The PET scanner consisted of 16 DOI detectors each of which had a staggered 3-layer LYSO crystal array (4/4/7 mm) coupled to a 4 × 4 silicon photomultiplier array. The physical performance was evaluated in terms of the NEMA NU 4 2008 protocol.Main Results.The measured spatial resolutions at the center and 15 mm radial offset were 0.67 mm and 1.56 mm for filtered-back-projection, respectively. The peak absolute sensitivity of 0.74% was obtained with an energy window of 400-600 keV. The resolution phantom imaging results show the clear identification of a submillimetric rod pattern with the ordered-subset expectation maximization algorithm. The inter-crystal scatter rejection using a narrow energy window could enhance the resolvability of a 0.75 mm rod significantly.Significance.In an animal imaging experiment, the detailed mouse brain structures such as cortex and thalamus were clearly identified with high contrast. In conclusion, we successfully developed the mouse brain PET insert prototype with a staggered 3-layer DOI detector.
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- Han Gyu Kang
- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1, Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
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Tashima H, Yoshida E, Iwao Y, Wakizaka H, Mohammadi A, Nitta M, Kitagawa A, Inaniwa T, Nishikido F, Tsuji AB, Nagai Y, Seki C, Minamimoto T, Fujibayashi Y, Yamaya T. Development of a Multiuse Human-Scale Single-Ring OpenPET System. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2020.3037055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Mohammadi A, Inadama N, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. Development of dual-ended depth-of-interaction detectors using laser-induced crystals for small animal PET systems. Phys Med Biol 2021; 66. [PMID: 34325418 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac18fc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Sensitivity and spatial resolution of positron emission tomography (PET) scanners can be improved by using thicker scintillation crystals with depth-of-interaction (DOI) encoding. Subsurface laser engraving (SSLE) can be used to segment crystals of a scintillation detector in order to fabricate a DOI detector. We previously applied SSLE to crystal bars of 3 × 3 × 20 mm3and 1.5 × 1.5 × 20 mm3and developed two dual-ended detectors with DOI segments of 3 mm and 1.5 mm, respectively. To further improve the DOI resolution, our SSLE detector design can be used with smaller pitch crystal bars, making them excellent detector candidates for small animal PET scanners with submillimetre resolution. In the present study, three small crystal bars of 1 × 1 × 20 mm3, 2 × 1 × 20 mm3, and 2 × 1 × 40 mm3were laser engraved to 12, 20 and 40 segments, respectively, by applying SSLE in their height directions. The segmented crystal bars were characterised in three prototype detector arrangements. First, the 1 × 1 × 20 mm3crystal bars were characterised in an 8 × 8 crystal array designed for DOI encoding along crystal height in a conventional small animal PET design. Second, a 4 × 8 crystal array of 2 × 1 × 20 mm3crystal bars was characterised for using the DOI information for crystal interaction positioning along the axial axis of a small animal PET scanner. Finally, the third part of the study was performed on a single 2 × 1 × 40 mm3crystal bar with 40 segments to investigate the feasibility of DOI estimation in longer crystals for application in a system with extended axial length. We evaluated the capability of segment identification and energy resolution of theses detectors. The 3D position maps of the detectors were obtained using the Anger-type calculation and the crystal identification performance was evaluated for each detector. Clear segment separation was obtained for the crystal arrays with 12 (segment pitch of 1.67 mm) and 20 (segment pitch of 1 mm) segments. Mean energy resolutions of 8.8% ± 0.4% and 9.6% ± 0.8% at 511 keV were obtained for the segments in the central regions of the 8 × 8 array with 12 segments and the 4 × 8 array with 20 segments, respectively. Clear segment identification was found to be difficult for the detector with 40 segments, especially for the segments at the middle of the crystal. Energy and interaction positioning characterisation results suggest that both prototype detectors with 12 and 20 segments are well suited for small animal PET scanners with high spatial resolution.
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- Akram Mohammadi
- Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Institute of Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Akamatsu G, Takyu S, Yoshida E, Iwao Y, Tashima H, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. Evaluation of a Hamamatsu TOF-PET Detector Module With 3.2-mm Pitch LFS Scintillators and a 256-Channel SiPM Array. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2020.3035876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Kang HG, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. A staggered 3-layer DOI PET detector using BaSO4 reflector for enhanced crystal identification and inter-crystal scattering event discrimination capability. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2021; 7. [DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/abf6a8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Ahmed AM, Chacon A, Rutherford H, Akamatsu G, Mohammadi A, Nishikido F, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Yamaya T, Franklin DR, Rosenfeld A, Guatelli S, Safavi-Naeini M. A validated Geant4 model of a whole-body PET scanner with four-layer DOI detectors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 65:235051. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abaa24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Kang HG, Yamamoto S, Takyu S, Nishikido F, Mohammadi A, Akamatsua G, Sato S, Yamaya T. Energy spread estimation of radioactive oxygen ion beams using optical imaging. Phys Med Biol 2020; 65. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abc304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Radioactive ion (RI) beams combined with in-beam positron emission tomography enable accurate in situ beam range verification in heavy ion therapy. However, the energy spread of the radioactive beams generated as secondary beams is wider than that of conventional stable heavy ion beams which causes Bragg peak region and distal falloff region broadening. Therefore, the energy spread of the RI beams should be measured carefully for their quality control. Here, we proposed an optical imaging technique for the energy spread estimation of radioactive oxygen ion beams. A polymethyl methacrylate phantom (10.0 × 10.0 × 9.9 cm3) was irradiated with an 15O beam (mean energy = 247.7 MeV u−1, standard deviation = 6.8 MeV u−1) in the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba. Three different momentum acceptances of 1%, 2% and 4% were used to get energy spreads of 1.9 MeV u−1, 3.4 MeV u−1 and 5.5 MeV u−1, respectively. The in-beam luminescence light and offline beam Cerenkov light images were acquired with an optical system consisting of a lens and a cooled charge-coupled device camera. To estimate the energy spread of the 15O ion beams, we proposed three optical parameters: (1) distal-50% falloff length of the prompt luminescence signals; (2) full-width at half maximum of the Cerenkov light signals in the beam direction; and (3) positional difference between the peaks of the Cerenkov light and the luminescence signals. These parameters estimated the energy spread with the respective mean squared errors of 2.52 × 10−3 MeV u−1, 5.91 × 10−3 MeV u−1, and 0.182 MeV u−1. The distal-50% falloff length of the luminescence signals provided the lowest mean squared error among the optical parameters. From the findings, we concluded optical imaging using luminescence and Cerenkov light signals offers an accurate energy spread estimation of 15O ion beams. In the future, the proposed optical parameters will be used for energy spread estimation of other RI beams as well as stable ion beams.
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Rutherford H, Chacon A, Mohammadi A, Takyu S, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Hofmann T, Pinto M, Franklin DR, Yamaya T, Parodi K, Rosenfeld AB, Guatelli S, Safavi-Naeini M. Dose quantification in carbon ion therapy using in-beam positron emission tomography. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 65:235052. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abaa23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Mohammadi A, Tashima H, Iwao Y, Takyu S, Akamatsu G, Kang HG, Nishikido F, Yoshida E, Chacon A, Safavi-Naeini M, Parodi K, Yamaya T. Erratum: Influence of momentum acceptance on range monitoring of 11C and 15O ion beams using in-beam PET (2020 Phys. Med. Biol.
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125006). Phys Med Biol 2020; 65. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/abc36a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Kagami K, Koshimizu M, Fujimoto Y, Kishimoto S, Haruki R, Nishikido F, Asai K. X-ray detection properties of Bi-loaded plastic scintillators synthesized via solvent evaporation. RADIAT MEAS 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2020.106361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mohammadi A, Tashima H, Iwao Y, Takyu S, Akamatsu G, Kang HG, Nishikido F, Yoshida E, Chacon A, Safavi-Naeini M, Parodi K, Yamaya T. Influence of momentum acceptance on range monitoring of 11C and 15O ion beams using in-beam PET. Phys Med Biol 2020; 65:125006. [PMID: 32176873 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab8059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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In heavy-ion therapy, the stopping position of primary ions in tumours needs to be monitored for effective treatment and to prevent overdose exposure to normal tissues. Positron-emitting ion beams, such as 11C and 15O, have been suggested for range verification in heavy-ion therapy using in-beam positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, which offers the capability of visualizing the ion stopping position with a high signal-to-noise ratio. We have previously demonstrated the feasibility of in-beam PET imaging for the range verification of 11C and 15O ion beams and observed a slight shift between the beam stopping position and the dose peak position in simulations, depending on the initial beam energy spread. In this study, we focused on the experimental confirmation of the shift between the Bragg peak position and the position of the maximum detected positron-emitting fragments via a PET system for positron-emitting ion beams of 11C (210 MeV u-1) and 15O (312 MeV u-1) with momentum acceptances of 5% and 0.5%. For this purpose, we measured the depth doses and performed in-beam PET imaging using a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) phantom for both beams with different momentum acceptances. The shifts between the Bragg peak position and the PET peak position in an irradiated PMMA phantom for the 15O ion beams were 1.8 mm and 0.3 mm for momentum acceptances of 5% and 0.5%, respectively. The shifts between the positions of two peaks for the 11C ion beam were 2.1 mm and 0.1 mm for momentum acceptances of 5% and 0.5%, respectively. We observed larger shifts between the Bragg peak and the PET peak positions for a momentum acceptance of 5% for both beams, which is consistent with the simulation results reported in our previous study. The biological doses were also estimated from the calculated relative biological effectiveness (RBE) values using a modified microdosimetric kinetic model (mMKM) and Monte Carlo simulation. Beams with a momentum acceptance of 5% should be used with caution for therapeutic applications to avoid extra dose to normal tissues beyond the tumour when the dose distal fall-off is located beyond the treatment volume.
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- Akram Mohammadi
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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Toramatsu C, Mohammadi A, Wakizaka H, Seki C, Nishikido F, Sato S, Kanno I, Takahashi M, Karasawa K, Hirano Y, Yamaya T. Biological washout modelling for in-beam PET: rabbit brain irradiation by 11C and 15O ion beams. Phys Med Biol 2020; 65:105011. [PMID: 32235057 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab8532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Positron emission tomography (PET) has been used for dose verification in charged particle therapy. The causes of washout of positron emitters by physiological functions should be clarified for accurate dose verification. In this study, we visualized the distribution of irradiated radioactive beams, 11C and 15O beams, in the rabbit whole-body using our original depth-of-interaction (DOI)-PET prototype to add basic data for biological washout effect correction. Time activity curves of the irradiated field and organs were measured immediately after the irradiations. All data were corrected for physical decay before further analysis. We also collected expired gas of the rabbit during beam irradiation and the energy spectrum was measured with a germanium detector. Irradiated radioactive beams into the brain were distributed to the whole body due to the biological washout process, and the implanted 11C and 15O ions were concentrated in the regions which had high blood volume. The 11C-labelled 11CO2 was detected in expired gas under the 11C beam irradiation, while no significant signal was detected under the 15O beam irradiation as a form of C15O2. Results suggested that the implanted 11C ions form molecules that diffuse out to the whole body by undergoing perfusion, then, they are incorporated into the blood-gas exchange in the respiratory system. This study provides basic data for modelling of the biological washout effect.
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- Chie Toramatsu
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Tokyo Women's University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
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Chacon A, James B, Tran L, Guatelli S, Chartier L, Prokopvich D, Franklin DR, Mohammadi A, Nishikido F, Iwao Y, Akamatsu G, Takyu S, Tashima H, Yamaya T, Parodi K, Rosenfeld A, Safavi‐Naeini M. Experimental investigation of the characteristics of radioactive beams for heavy ion therapy. Med Phys 2020; 47:3123-3132. [PMID: 32279312 DOI: 10.1002/mp.14177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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- Andrew Chacon
- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Lucas Heights NSW 2234 Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Lucas Heights NSW 2234 Australia
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology 4‐9‐1 Anagawa Inage‐ku Chiba 263‐8555 Japan
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- Department of Medical Physics Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universit at Munchen Garching b Munchen Germany
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- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Lucas Heights NSW 2234 Australia
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Kang HG, Yamamoto S, Takyu S, Nishikido F, Mohammadi A, Horita R, Sato S, Yamaya T. Erratum: Optical imaging for the characterization of radioactive carbon and oxygen ion beams (2019 Phys. Med. Biol. 64 115009). Phys Med Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab297b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Chacon A, Guatelli S, Rutherford H, Bolst D, Mohammadi A, Ahmed A, Nitta M, Nishikido F, Iwao Y, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Akamatsu G, Takyu S, Kitagawa A, Hofmann T, Pinto M, Franklin DR, Parodi K, Yamaya T, Rosenfeld A, Safavi-Naeini M. Comparative study of alternative Geant4 hadronic ion inelastic physics models for prediction of positron-emitting radionuclide production in carbon and oxygen ion therapy. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:155014. [PMID: 31167173 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab2752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The distribution of fragmentation products predicted by Monte Carlo simulations of heavy ion therapy depend on the hadronic physics model chosen in the simulation. This work aims to evaluate three alternative hadronic inelastic fragmentation physics options available in the Geant4 Monte Carlo radiation physics simulation framework to determine which model most accurately predicts the production of positron-emitting fragmentation products observable using in-beam PET imaging. Fragment distributions obtained with the BIC, QMD, and INCL + + physics models in Geant4 version 10.2.p03 are compared to experimental data obtained at the HIMAC heavy-ion treatment facility at NIRS in Chiba, Japan. For both simulations and experiments, monoenergetic beams are applied to three different block phantoms composed of gelatin, poly(methyl methacrylate) and polyethylene. The yields of the positron-emitting nuclei 11C, 10C and 15O obtained from simulations conducted with each model are compared to the experimental yields estimated by fitting a multi-exponential radioactive decay model to dynamic PET images using the normalised mean square error metric in the entrance, build up/Bragg peak and tail regions. Significant differences in positron-emitting fragment yield are observed among the three physics models with the best overall fit to experimental 12C and 16O beam measurements obtained with the BIC physics model.
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- Andrew Chacon
- Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia. Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Lucas Heights, NSW 2234, Australia
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Mohammadi A, Tashima H, Iwao Y, Takyu S, Akamatsu G, Nishikido F, Yoshida E, Kitagawa A, Parodi K, Yamaya T. Range verification of radioactive ion beams of 11C and 15O using in-beam PET imaging. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:145014. [PMID: 31146265 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab25ce] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In advanced ion therapy, the visualization of the range of incident ions in a patient's body is important for exploiting the advantages of this type of therapy. It is ideal to use radioactive ion beams for in-beam positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in particle therapy due to the high quality of PET images caused by the high signal-to-noise ratio. We have shown the feasibility of this idea through an in-beam PET study for 11C and 15O ion beams using the dedicated OpenPET system. In this work, we investigate the potential difference between the Bragg peak position and the position of the maximum detected positron-emitting fragments by a PET system for the radioactive beams of 11C and 15O. For this purpose, we measured the depth dose in a water phantom and performed PET scans of an irradiated PMMA phantom for the available beams of 11C and 15O at the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). Then, we simulated the depth dose profiles in the water phantom and the yield of the positron-emitting fragments in a PMMA phantom for both available beams using the Monte Carlo code PHITS. The positions of the Bragg peak and maximum positron-emitting fragments from the measurements were well reproduced by simulation. The effect of beam energy broadening on the positional differences between two peaks was studied by simulating an irradiated PMMA phantom. The differences in position between the Bragg peak and the maximum positron-emitting fragments increased when the beam energy spread was broadened, although the differences were zero for the ideal mono-energetic beams. Greater differences were observed for 11C ion beams compared to 15O ion beams, although both beams had the same range in water, and the higher energy corresponded to a larger difference. For the known energy spread of the beams, the predicted differences between two peaks from the simulation were consistent with the measured data within submillimetre agreement.
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- Akram Mohammadi
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan. Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
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Iwao Y, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Ida T, Yamaya T. Seated versus supine: consideration of the optimum measurement posture for brain-dedicated PET. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:125003. [PMID: 31096205 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab221d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Some recently developed brain-dedicated positron emission tomography (PET) scanners measure subjects in a sitting position. Sitting enables PET scanning under more natural conditions for the subjects and also helps with making the scanners smaller. It is unclear, however, how much the degree of head motion when sitting differs from the supine posture commonly employed in clinical PET. In this report, we describe development of a markerless and contactless head motion tracking system and a study of healthy volunteers in several different postures to determine the optimum posture for brain PET. We used Kinect® (Microsoft) and developed software that can measure head motion with about 1 mm (translation) and less than 1° (rotation) accuracy. In the volunteer study, we measured the amount of head motion, with and without head fixation, in supine, normal sitting, and reclining postures. The results indicated that the normal sitting posture without head fixation had the largest head movement, and that the reclining and supine postures were similarly effective for minimizing head movement (average head movement of about 0.5 mm during 1 min). We also visualized the influence that head motion had on images for each pose by simulating the actual motions obtained from the volunteer study using a digital Hoffman phantom. Comparisons with the original image showed that the extent to which motion was reduced in the reclining and supine postures were quantitatively equivalent. The head motions of the volunteer studies were also reproduced using a mannequin head on a motorized stage to assess how well the proposed motion measurement system worked when used for motion correction. The results indicated that even though the system improved image quality for all postures, the reclining and supine postures could provide better image quality than the normal sitting posture.
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- Yuma Iwao
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chiba, Japan
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Kang HG, Yamamoto S, Takyu S, Nishikido F, Mohammadi A, Horita R, Sato S, Yamaya T. Optical imaging for the characterization of radioactive carbon and oxygen ion beams. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 64:115009. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab1ccf] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Akamatsu G, Tashima H, Iwao Y, Wakizaka H, Maeda T, Mohammadi A, Takyu S, Nitta M, Nishikido F, Rutherford H, Chacon A, Safavi-Naeini M, Yoshida E, Yamaya T. Performance evaluation of a whole-body prototype PET scanner with four-layer DOI detectors. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:095014. [PMID: 30978704 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab18b2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Parallax error caused by the detector crystal thickness degrades spatial resolution at the peripheral regions of the field-of-view (FOV) of a scanner. To resolve this issue, depth-of-interaction (DOI) measurement is a promising solution to improve the spatial resolution and its uniformity over the entire FOV. Even though DOI detectors have been used in dedicated systems with a small ring diameter such as for the human brain, breast and small animals, the use of DOI detectors for a large bore whole-body PET system has not been demonstrated yet. We have developed a four-layered DOI detector, and its potential for a brain dedicated system has been proven in our previous development. In the present work, we investigated the use of the four-layer DOI detector for a large bore PET system by developing the world's first whole-body prototype. We evaluated its performance characteristics in accordance with the NEMA NU 2 standard. Furthermore, the impact of incorporating DOI information was evaluated with the NEMA NU 4 image quality phantom. Point source images were reconstructed with a filtered back projection (FBP), and an average spatial resolution of 5.2 ± 0.7 mm was obtained. For the FBP image, the four-layer DOI information improved the radial spatial resolution by 48% at the 20 cm offset position. The peak noise-equivalent count rate (NECR) was 22.9 kcps at 7.4 kBq ml-1 and the scatter fraction was 44%. The system sensitivity was 5.9 kcps MBq-1. For the NEMA NU 2 image quality phantom, the 10 mm sphere was clearly visualized without any artifacts. For the NEMA NU 4 image quality phantom, we measured the phantom at 0, 10 and 20 cm offset positions. As a result, we found the image with four-layer DOI could visualize the 2 mm-diameter hot cylinder although it could not be recognized on the image without DOI. The average improvements in the recovery coefficients for the five hot rods (1-5 mm) were 0.3%, 4.4% and 26.3% at the 0, 10 and 20 cm offset positions, respectively (except for the 1 mm-diameter rod at the 20 cm offset position). Although several practical issues (such as adding end-shields) remain to be addressed before the scanner is ready for clinical use, we showed that the four-layer DOI technology provided higher and more uniform spatial resolution over the FOV and improved contrast for small uptake regions located at the peripheral FOV, which could improve detectability of small and distal lesions such as nodal metastases, especially in obese patients.
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- Go Akamatsu
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chiba, Japan. Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
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Hofmann T, Pinto M, Mohammadi A, Nitta M, Nishikido F, Iwao Y, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Chacon A, Safavi-Naeini M, Rosenfeld A, Yamaya T, Parodi K. Dose reconstruction from PET images in carbon ion therapy: a deconvolution approach. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 64:025011. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaf676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Nitta M, Inadama N, Nishikido F, Yoshida E, Tashima H, Kawai H, Yamaya T. Development of the X’tal Cube PET Detector With Segments of (0.77 mm)3. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2018.2865219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Nishikido F, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Yamaya T. [State-of-the-Art Technologies in Nuclear Medicine Imaging]. Igaku Butsuri 2018; 38:10-18. [PMID: 30122717 DOI: 10.11323/jjmp.38.1_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Nuclear medicine imaging is an important tool for cancer diagnosis, brain research, molecular imaging research and so on. Therefore, various imaging techniques and methods are being developed and investigated in nuclear medicine physics. In this report, we introduce state-of-the-art techniques, such as Compton camera imaging, time-of-flight positron emission tomography, semiconductor detectors for medical applications, image reconstruction and deep learning, which were reported in the 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference.
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- Fumihiko Nishikido
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
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Toramatsu C, Yoshida E, Wakizaka H, Mohammadi A, Ikoma Y, Tashima H, Nishikido F, Kitagawa A, Karasawa K, Hirano Y, Yamaya T. Washout effect in rabbit brain: in-beam PET measurements using
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Mohammadi A, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Nitta M, Shimizu K, Sakai T, Yamaya T. Development of a dual-ended readout detector with segmented crystal bars made using a subsurface laser engraving technique. Phys Med Biol 2018; 63:025019. [PMID: 29176052 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa9d03] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Depth of interaction (DOI) information is indispensable to improving the sensitivity and spatial resolution of positron emission tomography (PET) systems, especially for small field-of-view PET such as small animal PET and human brain PET. We have already developed a series of X'tal cube detectors for isotropic spatial resolution and we obtained the best isotropic resolution of 0.77 mm for detectors with six-sided readout. However, it is still challenging to apply the detector for PET systems due to the high cost of six-sided readout electronics and carrying out segmentation of a monolithic cubic scintillator in three dimensions using the subsurface laser engraving (SSLE) technique. In this work, we propose a more practical X'tal cube with a two-sided readout detector, which is made of crystal bars segmented in the height direction only by using the SSLE technique. We developed two types of prototype detectors with a 3 mm cubic segment and a 1.5 mm cubic segment by using 3 × 3 × 20 mm3 and 1.5 × 1.5 × 20 mm3 crystal bars segmented into 7 and 13 DOI segments, respectively, using the SSLE technique. First, the performance of the detector, composed of one crystal bar with different DOI segments and two thorough silicon via (TSV) multi-pixel photon counters (MPPCs) as readout at both ends of the crystal bar, were evaluated in order to demonstrate the capability of the segmented crystal bars as a DOI detector. Then, performance evaluation was carried out for a 4 × 4 crystal array of 3 × 3 × 20 mm3 with 7 DOI segments and an 8 × 8 crystal array of 1.5 × 1.5 × 20 mm3 with 13 DOI segments. Each readout included a 4 × 4 channel of the 3 × 3 mm2 active area of the TSV MPPCs. The three-dimensional position maps of the detectors were obtained by the Anger-type calculation. All the segments in the 4 × 4 array were identified very clearly when there was air between the crystal bars, as each crystal bar was coupled to one channel of the MPPCs; however, it was necessary to optimize optical conditions between crystal bars for the 8 × 8 array because of light sharing between crystal bars coupled to one channel of the MPPCs. The optimization was performed for the 8 × 8 array by inserting reflectors fully or partially between the crystal bars and the best crystal identification performance was obtained with the partial reflectors between the crystal bars. The mean energy resolutions at the 511 keV photo peak for the 4 × 4 array with air between the crystal bars and for the 8 × 8 array with partial reflectors between the crystal bars were 10.1% ± 0.3% and 10.8% ± 0.8%, respectively. Timing resolutions of 783 ± 36 ps and 1.14 ± 0.22 ns were obtained for the detectors composed of the 4 × 4 array and the 8 × 8 array with partial reflectors, respectively. These values correspond to single photon timing resolutions. Practical X'tal cubes with 3 mm and 1.5 mm DOI resolutions and two-sided readout were developed.
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- Akram Mohammadi
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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Akram MSH, Obata T, Suga M, Nishikido F, Yoshida E, Saito K, Yamaya T. MRI compatibility study of an integrated PET/RF-coil prototype system at 3T. J Magn Reson 2017; 283:62-70. [PMID: 28881235 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2016] [Revised: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 08/23/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We have been working on the development of a PET insert for existing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems for simultaneous PET/MR imaging, which integrates radiofrequency (RF)-shielded PET detector modules with an RF head coil. In order to avoid interferences between the PET detector circuits and the different MRI-generated electromagnetic fields, PET detector circuits were installed inside eight Cu-shielded fiber-reinforced plastic boxes, and these eight shielded PET modules were integrated in between the eight elements of a 270-mm-diameter and 280-mm-axial-length cylindrical birdcage RF coil, which was designed to be used with a 3-T clinical MRI system. The diameter of the PET scintillators with a 12-mm axial field-of-view became 255mm, which was very close to the imaging region. In this study, we have investigated the effects of this PET/RF-coil integrated system on the performance of MRI, which include the evaluation of static field (Bo) inhomogeneity, RF field (B1) distribution, local specific absorption rate (SAR) distribution, average SAR, and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). For the central 170-mm-diameter and 80-mm-axial-length of a homogenous cylindrical phantom (with the total diameter of 200mm and axial-length of 100mm), an increase of about a maximum of 3μT in the Bo inhomogeneity was found, both in the central and 40-mm off-centered transverse planes, and a 5 percentage point increase of B1 field inhomogeneity was observed in the central transverse plane (from 84% without PET to 79% with PET), while B1 homogeneity along the coronal plane was almost unchanged (77%) following the integration of PET with the RF head coil. The average SAR and maximum local SAR were increased by 1.21 and 1.62 times, respectively. However, the SNR study for both spin-echo and gradient-echo sequences showed a reduction of about 70% and 60%, respectively, because of the shielded PET modules. The overall results prove the feasibility of this integrated PET/RF-coil system for using with the existing MRI system.
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- Md Shahadat Hossain Akram
- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan.
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan
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- Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan
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- Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Japan.
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Koyama A, Miyoshi H, Shimazoe K, Otaka Y, Nitta M, Nishikido F, Yamaya T, Takahashi H. Radiation stability of an InGaZnO thin-film transistor in heavy ion radiotherapy. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2017. [DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/aa78ae] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Yoshida E, Tashima H, Shinaji T, Shimizu K, Wakizaka H, Mohammadi A, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. Development of a Whole-Body Dual Ring OpenPET for in-Beam PET. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1109/trpms.2017.2703823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Ahmed AM, Tashima H, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Yamaya T. Simulation study comparing the helmet-chin PET with a cylindrical PET of the same number of detectors. Phys Med Biol 2017; 62:4541-4550. [DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa685c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Hirano Y, Nitta M, Nishikido F, Yoshida E, Inadama N, Yamaya T. Induced radioactivity of a GSO scintillator by secondary fragments in carbon ion therapy and its effects on in-beam OpenPET imaging. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:4870-89. [PMID: 27280308 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/13/4870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The accumulation of induced radioactivity within in-beam PET scanner scintillators is of concern for its long-term clinical usage in particle therapy. To estimate the effects on OpenPET which we are developing for in-beam PET based on GSOZ (Zi doped Gd2SiO5), we measured the induced radioactivity of GSO activated by secondary fragments in a water phantom irradiation by a (12)C beam with an energy of 290 MeV u(-1). Radioisotopes of Na, Ce, Eu, Gd, Nd, Pm and Tb including positron emitters were observed in the gamma ray spectra of the activated GSO with a high purity Ge detector and their absolute radioactivities were calculated. We used the Monte Carlo simulation platform, Geant4 in which the observed radioactivity was assigned to the scintillators of a precisely reproduced OpenPET and the single and coincidence rates immediately after one treatment and after one-year usage were estimated for the most severe conditions. Comparing the highest coincidence rate originating from the activated scintillators (background) and the expected coincidence rate from an imaging object (signal), we determined the expected signal-to-noise ratio to be more than 7 within 3 min and more than 10 within 1 min from the scan start time. We concluded the effects of scintillator activation and their accumulation on the OpenPET imaging were small and clinical long-term usage of the OpenPET was feasible.
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- Yoshiyuki Hirano
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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Hirano Y, Nishikido F, Kokuryo D, Yamaya T. After-pulsing, cross-talk, dark-count, and gain of MPPC under 7-T static magnetic field. Radiol Phys Technol 2016; 9:245-53. [PMID: 27188511 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-016-0356-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2016] [Revised: 04/28/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Multi-pixel photon counters (MPPCs) have been used instead of photomultiplier tubes for positron emission tomography combined with magnetic resonance (PET-MR). However, the effects of the magnetic field (MF) on the intrinsic properties-gain, cross-talk, after-pulsing, and dark-count-have not been sufficiently investigated. Therefore, we measured these properties for two types of MPPCs-S10931-50P and S12572-50P-in a static 7-T MF. These properties were measured with a pulse-shape analysis using pulse data acquired by a digital oscilloscope in the presence of the MF (w/MF) and the absence of the MF (w/o MF) by changing the supplied over-voltages (from 0.95 to 2.1 V for S10931 and from 2.1 to 3.3 V for S12572). No significant differences between the w/MF and w/o MF cases were observed for either MPPC, suggesting that the gain, cross-talk, after-pulsing, and dark-count are insensitive to a 7-T MF. The present work shows that constant MPPC performance is expected under a strong MF and demonstrates positive results for PET-MR.
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- Yoshiyuki Hirano
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan. .,Gunma University, 3-39-22 Showa-Machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan.
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Nishikido F, Tashima H, Suga M, Inadama N, Eiji Y, Obata T, Yamaya T. Imaging performance of a full-ring prototype PET-MRI system based on four-layer DOI-PET detectors integrated with a RF coil. EJNMMI Phys 2016; 2:A18. [PMID: 26956273 PMCID: PMC4798672 DOI: 10.1186/2197-7364-2-s1-a18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
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- National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan
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Hirano Y, Takuwa H, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Nakajima Y, Wakizaka H, Yamaya T. Washout rate in rat brain irradiated by a11C beam after acetazolamide loading using a small single-ring OpenPET prototype. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:1875-87. [PMID: 26863938 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/5/1875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Tashima H, Yoshida E, Inadama N, Nishikido F, Nakajima Y, Wakizaka H, Shinaji T, Nitta M, Kinouchi S, Suga M, Haneishi H, Inaniwa T, Yamaya T. Development of a small single-ring OpenPET prototype with a novel transformable architecture. Phys Med Biol 2016; 61:1795-809. [PMID: 26854528 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/4/1795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The single-ring OpenPET (SROP), for which the detector arrangement has a cylinder shape cut by two parallel planes at a slant angle to form an open space, is our original proposal for in-beam PET. In this study, we developed a small prototype of an axial-shift type SROP (AS-SROP) with a novel transformable architecture for a proof-of-concept. In the AS-SROP, detectors originally forming a cylindrical PET are axially shifted little by little. We designed the small AS-SROP prototype for 4-layer depth-of-interaction detectors arranged in a ring diameter of 250 mm. The prototype had two modes: open and closed. The open mode formed the SROP with the open space of 139 mm and the closed mode formed a conventional cylindrical PET. The detectors were simultaneously moved by a rotation handle allowing them to be transformed between the two modes. We evaluated the basic performance of the developed prototype and carried out in-beam imaging tests in the HIMAC using (11)C radioactive beam irradiation. As a result, we found the open mode enabled in-beam PET imaging at a slight cost of imaging performance; the spatial resolution and sensitivity were 2.6 mm and 5.1% for the open mode and 2.1 mm and 7.3% for the closed mode. We concluded that the AS-SROP can minimize the decrease of resolution and sensitivity, for example, by transforming into the closed mode immediately after the irradiation while maintaining the open space only for the in-beam PET measurement.
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- Hideaki Tashima
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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Murayama S, Jo JI, Arai K, Nishikido F, Bakalova R, Yamaya T, Saga T, Kato M, Aoki I. γ-PARCEL: Control of Molecular Release Using γ-Rays. Anal Chem 2015; 87:11625-9. [PMID: 26525641 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We previously have developed the photoresponsive tetra-gel and nanoparticles for controlling the function of the encapsulated substance by UV irradiation. However, the penetration ability of the UV is not high enough. Here, we developed a radiation-responsive tetra-gel and nanoparticle based on γ-ray-responsive X-shaped polyethylene glycol (PEG) linker with a disulfide bond. The nanoparticle could retain small molecules and biomacromolecules. γ-Rays were used as a trigger signal because of their higher penetrating ability. This allowed a spatiotemporal release and control of the encapsulated substances from the nanoparticle in the deeper region, which is impossible by using light exposure (ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared).
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- Shuhei Murayama
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and GPLLI Program, The University of Tokyo , 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences , 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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Sakurai H, Itoh F, Hirano Y, Nitta M, Suzuki K, Kato D, Yoshida E, Nishikido F, Wakizaka H, Kanai T, Yamaya T. Positron annihilation spectroscopy of biological tissue in11C irradiation. Phys Med Biol 2014; 59:7031-8. [PMID: 25360543 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/22/7031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Nishikido F, Tachibana A, Obata T, Inadama N, Yoshida E, Suga M, Murayama H, Yamaya T. Development of 1.45-mm resolution four-layer DOI-PET detector for simultaneous measurement in 3T MRI. Radiol Phys Technol 2014; 8:111-9. [PMID: 25348721 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-014-0298-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Recently, various types of PET-MRI systems have been developed by a number of research groups. However, almost all of the PET detectors used in these PET-MRI systems have no depth-of-interaction (DOI) capability. The DOI detector can reduce the parallax error and lead to improvement of the performance. We are developing a new PET-MRI system which consists of four-layer DOI detectors positioned close to the measured object to achieve high spatial resolution and high scanner sensitivity. As a first step, we are investigating influences the PET detector and the MRI system have on each other using a prototype four-layer DOI-PET detector. This prototype detector consists of a lutetium yttrium orthosilicate crystal block and a 4 × 4 multi-pixel photon counter array. The size of each crystal element is 1.45 mm × 1.45 mm × 4.5 mm, and the crystals are arranged in 6 × 6 elements × 4 layers with reflectors. The detector and some electric components are packaged in an aluminum shielding box. Experiments were carried out with 3.0 T MRI (GE, Signa HDx) and a birdcage-type RF coil. We demonstrated that the DOI-PET detector was normally operated in simultaneous measurements with no influence of the MRI measurement. A slight influence of the PET detector on the static magnetic field of the MRI was observed near the PET detector. The signal-to-noise ratio was decreased by presence of the PET detector due to environmental noise entering the MRI room through the cables, even though the PET detector was not powered up. On the other hand, no influence of electric noise from the PET detector in the simultaneous measurement on the MRI images was observed, even though the PET detector was positioned near the RF coil.
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- Fumihiko Nishikido
- Department of Biophysics Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan,
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Tashima H, Yoshida E, Hirano Y, Nishikido F, Inadama N, Murayama H, Yamaya T. Efficient one-pair experimental system for spatial resolution demonstration of prototype PET detectors. Radiol Phys Technol 2014; 7:379-86. [PMID: 24938490 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-014-0276-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Revised: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/04/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In the development of depth-of-interaction (DOI)-positron emission tomography (PET) detectors, one of the important steps toward their practical use is an evaluation of their imaging performance, such as the spatial resolution as measured by use of a point source and a one-pair experimental system which simulates actual PET geometries. The DOI-PET detectors have a broad field of view providing good imaging performance compared with conventional detectors. Therefore, evaluation including the region from the center to the periphery close to the detector ring is required in an effort to show their advanced performance regarding uniform spatial resolution. In this study, we aimed to develop and evaluate an efficient one-pair experimental system for demonstration of the DOI-PET detector performance. For this purpose, we propose a one-pair experimental system that can simulate an arbitrary ring diameter and acquire projection data efficiently by skipping unnecessary combinations according to the position of the point source. As a result, the proposed system and our measuring scheme could significantly reduce the total measurement time, especially for a large ring size such as that used in brain PET scanners and whole-body PET scanners. We used the system to evaluate the X'tal cube PET detector with a 2-mm cubic crystal array arranged in simulated PET geometries with ring diameters of 8.2 and 14.6 cm for 12 and 18 detector blocks, respectively. The results showed that a uniform spatial resolution was achieved even in the peripheral region, and measurements were obtained semi-automatically in a short time.
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- Hideaki Tashima
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan,
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Hirano Y, Yoshida E, Kinouchi S, Nishikido F, Inadma N, Murayama H, Yamaya T. Monte Carlo simulation of small OpenPET prototype with (11)C beam irradiation: effects of secondary particles on in-beam imaging. Phys Med Biol 2014; 59:1623-40. [PMID: 24614643 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/7/1623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In-beam positron emission tomography (PET) can enable visualization of an irradiated field using positron emitters (β+ decay). In particle therapies, many kinds of secondary particles are produced by nuclear interactions, which affect PET imaging. Our purpose in this work was to evaluate effects of secondary particles on in-beam PET imaging using the Monte Carlo simulation code, Geant4, by reproducing an experiment with a small OpenPET prototype in which a PMMA phantom was irradiated by a (11)C beam. The number of incident particles to the detectors and their spectra, background coincidence for the PET scan, and reconstructed images were evaluated for three periods, spill-time (beam irradiation), pause-time (accelerating the particles) and beam-off time (duration after the final spill). For spill-time, we tested a background reduction technique in which coincidence events correlated with the accelerator radiofrequency were discarded (RF gated) that has been proposed in the literature. Also, background generation processes were identified. For spill-time, most background coincidences were caused by prompt gamma rays, and only 1.4% of the total coincidences generated β+ signals. Differently, for pause-time and beam-off time, more than 75% of the total coincidence events were signals. Using these coincidence events, we failed to reconstruct images during the spill-time, but we obtained successful reconstructions for the pause-time and beam-off time, which was consistent with the experimental results. From the simulation, we found that the absence of materials in the beam line and using the RF gated technique improved the signal-to-noise ratio for the spill-time. From an additional simulation with range shifter-less irradiation and the RF gated technique, we showed the feasibility of image reconstruction during the spill-time.
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- Yoshiyuki Hirano
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan
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Yoshida E, Tashima H, Nishikido F, Murayama H, Yamaya T. Reduction method for intrinsic random coincidence events from (176)Lu in low activity PET imaging. Radiol Phys Technol 2014; 7:235-45. [PMID: 24496884 DOI: 10.1007/s12194-014-0258-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2013] [Revised: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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For clinical studies, the effects of the intrinsic radioactivity of lutetium-based scintillators such as LSO used in PET imaging can be ignored within a narrow energy window. However, the intrinsic radioactivity becomes problematic when used in low-count-rate situations such as gene expression imaging or in-beam PET imaging. Time-of-flight (TOF) measurement capability promises not only to improve PET image quality, but also to reduce intrinsic random coincidences. On the other hand, we have developed a new reduction method for intrinsic random coincidence events based on multiple-coincidence information. Without the energy window, an intrinsic random coincidence is detected simultaneously with an intrinsic true coincidence as a multiple coincidence. The multiple-coincidence events can serve as a guide to identification of the intrinsic coincidences. After rejection of multiple-coincidence events detected with a wide energy window, data obtained included a few intrinsic random and many intrinsic true coincidence events. We analyzed the effect of intrinsic radioactivity and used Monte Carlo simulation to test both the TOF-based method and the developed multiple-coincidence-based (MC-based) method for a whole-body LSO-PET scanner. Using the TOF- and MC-based reduction methods separately, we could reduce the intrinsic random coincidence rates by 77 and 30 %, respectively. Also, the intrinsic random coincidence rate could be reduced by 84 % when the TOF+MC reduction methods were applied. The developed MC-based method showed reduced number of the intrinsic random coincidence events, but the reduction performance was limited compared to that of the TOF-based reduction method.
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- Eiji Yoshida
- Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan,
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