Alignment of Emission Gamma Ray Sources with Nai(Ti) Scintillation Detectors by Two Laser Beams to Pre-Operation using Alternating Minimization Technique
Accurate timing alignment and stability is important
to maximize the true counts and minimize the random counts in
positron emission tomography So signals output from detectors must
be centering with the two isotopes to pre-operation and fed signals
into four units of pulse-processing units, each unit can accept up to
eight inputs. The dual source computed tomography consist two units
on the left for 15 detector signals of Cs-137 isotope and two units on
the right are for 15 detectors signals of Co-60 isotope. The gamma
spectrum consisting of either single or multiple photo peaks. This
allows for the use of energy discrimination electronic hardware
associated with the data acquisition system to acquire photon counts
data with a specific energy, even if poor energy resolution detectors
are used. This also helps to avoid counting of the Compton scatter
counts especially if a single discrete gamma photo peak is emitted by
the source as in the case of Cs-137. In this study the polyenergetic
version of the alternating minimization algorithm is applied to the
dual energy gamma computed tomography problem.
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for high-quality portable radiography," Radiographics 12(1), 111-120,
1992.
[2] Brezovich I. A. and Jordan S., "A device for precision positioning and
alignment of room lasers to diminish their contribution to patient setup
errors," J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys. 8(4), 45-53, 2007.
[3] Matsumoto M., and Kanamori H., "Determination of x-ray tube focal
spot position," Med. Phys. 20(4), 1029-1031, 1993.
[4] Miyajima S., Imagawa K., and Matsumoto M., "An alignment method
for mammographic X-ray spectroscopy under clinical conditions," Br. J.
Radiol. 75(897), 763-766, 2002.
[5] Meng F. B., Yan A. M., Zhou G., Wu X. Z., and Liu H., "Development
of a dual-detector x-ray imaging system for phase retrieval study,"
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B 254(2), 300-306 , 2007.
[6] Gamio JC, Castro J, Rivera L, Alamilla J, Garcia-Nocetti F, Aguilar L."
Visualisation of gas-oil two-phase flows in pressurised pipes using
electrical capacitance tomography" Flow Measurement and
Instrumentation 16(2-3),129-134, 2005.
[7] Tortora PR, Ceccio SL, O'Hern TJ, Trujillo SM, Torczynski JR. "
Quantitative measurement of solids distribution in gas-solid riser flows
using electrical impedance tomography and gamma densitometry
tomography" International Journal of Multiphase Flow 32(8),972-995,
2006
[8] Stephen A. Dyer " Survey of instrumentation and measurement" IEEE,
p. 920, 2001.
[9] L'Annunzioat, Micheal "Handbook of Radioactivity Analysis" Chemical
reviews, p. 404, 2003.
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to maximize the true counts and minimize the random counts in
positron emission tomography So signals output from detectors must
be centering with the two isotopes to pre-operation and fed signals
into four units of pulse-processing units, each unit can accept up to
eight inputs. The dual source computed tomography consist two units
on the left for 15 detector signals of Cs-137 isotope and two units on
the right are for 15 detectors signals of Co-60 isotope. The gamma
spectrum consisting of either single or multiple photo peaks. This
allows for the use of energy discrimination electronic hardware
associated with the data acquisition system to acquire photon counts
data with a specific energy, even if poor energy resolution detectors
are used. This also helps to avoid counting of the Compton scatter
counts especially if a single discrete gamma photo peak is emitted by
the source as in the case of Cs-137. In this study the polyenergetic
version of the alternating minimization algorithm is applied to the
dual energy gamma computed tomography problem.", keywords = "Alignment, Spectrum, Laser, Detectors, Image", volume = "6", number = "3", pages = "297-3", }