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FYS 4250

FYS 4250. Biomedical instrumentation. Chapt 12b: Nuclear imaging methods. Overview. Gamma camera Positron emission technology (PET) Computer tomography (CT) Proton therapy Electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Scintillation-detector. Gamma Camera.

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FYS 4250

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  1. FYS 4250 Biomedical instrumentation Chapt 12b: Nuclear imaging methods

  2. Overview • Gamma camera • Positron emission technology (PET) • Computer tomography (CT) • Proton therapy • Electrical impedance tomography (EIT)

  3. Scintillation-detector

  4. Gamma Camera • A camera for nuclear imaging. The most used so far was invented by H. Anger in the 1960’s (The Anger camera)

  5. Anger camera Photons with a proper direction are let through the collimator, into the detector and photomultipliers

  6. Anger Camera (cont.)

  7. Gamma-camera

  8. Collimator focusing

  9. Actual isotopes(1)

  10. Actualisotopes(2) half life half life ”parents”

  11. Line spread og MTF

  12. PET camera

  13. Annihilation coincidence detection • Emitted positrons lose their kinetic energy by causing excitation and ionization • A positron that has lost most of the energy will interact with an electron by an annihilation • This annihilation will convert the mass of the electron-positron pair into two 511-keV photons, emitted in contrary directions

  14. Annihilation coincidence detection • If a simultaneous photon is registered in two different detectors, the annihilation came into being along a straight line between the two detectors . The electronics within a scanner detects the simultaneous hits in a process called annihilation coincidence detection • When two simultaneous hits have been detected, a line between the two detectors is calculated

  15. True, random, and scatter coincidences • A true coincidence = detection is the result of a single nuclear annihilation • A random coincidence = photons from different nuclear transformations are detected simultaneously at the detectors. May give erroneous results. • A scatter coincidence = one or both photons from a single annihilation are scattered in different directions but still detected in the detector

  16. Design of a PET scanner • PET = scintillation crystals coupled to photo mulitiplier tubes (PMT) • The signals are then processed in pulse mode in order to find the position, energy and the timestamp for each interaction • The energy levels can be used to discriminate between scatter coincidences and true coincidences • Early PET scanners coupled each scintillation crystal to a single PMT • Size of individual crystal largely determined spatial resolution of the system • Modern designs couple larger crystals to more than one PMT • Relative magnitudes of the signals from the PMTs coupled to a single crystal used to determine the position of the interaction in the crystal

  17. PET-CT • Usually combined with CT in order to localize activity in the body

  18. Non-invasive surgery Kilde: NIRS, Chiba, Japan

  19. Non-invasive surgery Heavy ion therapy (Proton-terapi) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7159/box/449133a_BX1.html Kilde: NIRS, Chiba, Japan http://www.triumf.info/public/about/virtual_tour.php?section=3&single=18

  20. Non-invasive surgery A treatment for patients with a local tumor not possible to treat with regular therapeutic methods Kilde: Magne Guttormsen, Fysisk Institutt, UIO

  21. Non-invasive surgery Better dose distribution to the tumor Source: Magne Guttormsen, Fysisk Institutt, UIO

  22. Non-invasive surgery Kilde: NIRS, Chiba, Japan

  23. Non-invasive surgery Minimalized heavy ion therapy centre Tung-kjerne terapi sentre • Less size than today’s centres • Reduced investmentcost, approximately 800 mill NOK Kilde: NIRS, Chiba, Japan

  24. Computertomography (CT)

  25. Computertomograph (CT)

  26. What is the CT? • Mathematical transform to the measured data. • Reconstruct n dimension function (image) => projection data of n – 1 dimension • Radon Transform (1917)“Two dimension and three dimension object can be reconstructed from the infinite set of projection data”. • The First CT: 1973 in the U.S.4 minutes scan, thickness of 10mm

  27. Concept of CT ・Getting the shape by back projection of the projection data. ・For example, outward view is the quadrangle => it is the cylinder CT Algorithm

  28. X Blur Basic principle of CT-Reconstruction of 2 dimensional image- Projection Data curvilinear integral of absorption coefficient regarding Y y y X-ray detector array Y X x x object X X-ray tube Reconstruction field Data Acquisition field Simple Backprojection

  29. 1., 2. and 3. generation scannerLinear translation + rotationCirkular scanningVolume scanning

  30. CT picture old technology

  31. Geometry of a CT-scanner

  32. Image reconstruction

  33. Back- projection (1)

  34. Back- • projection (2)

  35. y X x x ω or x Basic principle of CT -Reconstruction of 2 dimensional image- Projection Data x * Filtered Projection data Reconstruction Filter Multidirectional Backprojection Filtered Backprojection

  36. CT image

  37. CT 3-D image

  38. 2D og 3D images

  39. Rapidscanner

  40. Multislice CT • Several rings of detectors for multiple scanning of several layers. • Time efficiant, a 4 slice multislice CT is up to 8 times faster than a single slice CT • Possible monitoring of a beating heart ++

  41. Reconstruction process

  42. Reconstruction process Data acquisition at angle : 0 – 180 degree Obtain F(u,v) and then 2D IFFT -> reconstruction Radon Transform is equivalent to Filtered backprojection !

  43. Example of Simulation Model Image SimpleBackprojection Filtered Backprojection

  44. Electrical impedansetomography (kap 8.7)

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