Design and development of data acquisition electronics for a 1 mm resolution clinical Positron Emission Tomography (PET) system
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional medical imaging modality often used for cancer imaging. A typical clinical PET scanner will have a resolution greater than 5 mm. This resolution cannot resolve small cancerous lesions and may cause some lesions to be missed. This dissertation describes the design of a 1 mm3 resolution breast-dedicated clinical PET scanner which will provide the ability to identify smaller lesions and improve breast cancer screening or treatment. The PET scanner achieves this resolution by decreasing the dimensions of the PET scintillation detection elements to 1x1x1 mm3, creating a 3D position sensitive scintillation detector system, and placing the panels up against the breast. The scanner design uses 4608 basic detector units, each of which comprise position sensitive avalanche photodiodes (PSAPDs) coupled to 8x8 arrays of 1x1x1 mm3 LYSO scintillation crystal elements, requiring 18,432 readout channels. This dissertation details and evaluates the electronic architecture required to synchronize and readout the signals from the densely packed detectors. It also describes the signal processing performed on the signals to maximize the capability of the system.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Reynolds, Paul Daniel |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Levin, Craig |
| Thesis advisor | Levin, Craig |
| Thesis advisor | Fox, John D |
| Thesis advisor | Pauly, John (John M.) |
| Advisor | Fox, John D |
| Advisor | Pauly, John (John M.) |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Paul Daniel Reynolds. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Paul Daniel Reynolds
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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