Abstract
The recent development of new prostate tracers has motivated us to build a low cost PET camera optimized to image the prostate. Coincidence imaging of positron emitters is achieved using a pair of curved detector banks. In this paper, we optimize the design of septa in the prostate camera for detecting prostate tumors. The performance of the system is measured using a prewhitening observer with a background-known-statistically task. The results show that the septa design has a large impact on lesion detection. At the background activity level of 0.1 μCi/cc, a novel septa design with 8-crystal spacing outperforms the traditional two-dimension (inter-plane septa) and three-dimension (septaless) designs.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Pages | 1357-1360 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Volume | 26 II |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Conference Proceedings - 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2004 - San Francisco, CA, United States Duration: Sep 1 2004 → Sep 5 2004 |
Other
| Other | Conference Proceedings - 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2004 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Francisco, CA |
| Period | 9/1/04 → 9/5/04 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Bioengineering