Published May 2011
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Journal article
Investigation of the potential use of LaBr3:Ce scintillators for scintimammography imaging
- 1. Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH (United Kingdom)
- 2. Department of Radiological Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 10219, Riyadh 11432 (Saudi Arabia)
- 3. Joint Department of Physics, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT (United Kingdom)
Description
The motivation of this study is to exploit the high light yield and excellent energy resolution of LaBr3:Ce scintillators compared with NaI(Tl) crystal in scintimammograpic imaging systems. A dedicated gamma camera and 3D phantom were modelled using GATE Monte Carlo code under a variety of imaging situations including lession sizes, tumour activity-to-background ratios and tumour depths. The major finding of the present study is that LaBr3:Ce crystal-based cameras have the potential to detect small lesions (≤10 mm) at clinical TBR.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.189Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2010.06.189;
- PII
- S0168-9002(10)01379-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 633
- Journal Issue
- Suppl.1
- Journal Page Range
- p. S282-S285
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 11. international workshop on radiation imaging detectors
- Acronym
- IWORID
- Dates
- 28 Jun - 2 Jul 2009
- Place
- Prague (Czech Republic)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43054007
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; ENERGY RESOLUTION; GAMMA CAMERAS; LANTHANUM BROMIDES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS; SODIUM IODIDES
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; BROMIDES; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CALCULATION METHODS; CAMERAS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC PHOSPHORS; IODIDES; IODINE COMPOUNDS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MOCKUP; PHOSPHORS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; RESOLUTION; SIMULATION; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURAL MODELS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.