Re: Anger Camera question

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

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>Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:50:31 -0500
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>Subject:      Re: Anger Camera question
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>With one crystal and many PM tubes, the light from a scintillation event fans
>out to many of the tubes near the event and all the tubes triangulate the
>event location based on how much light they detect. With many small cystals
>and a 1:1 tube / crystal ratio the resolution would depend on the crystal and
>tube size. The scintillation light would not cross the crystal interfaces.
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>A multi-crystal design was used back in the 70's (by Baird I think) with
>light pipes between the crystal segments and the PM tubes to get the crystal
>size small enough for an acceptable (but very poor) resolution. The camera was
>by far the fastest gamma camera at the time and very useful for dynamic
>cardiac studies where the spacial resolution was adequate given the superior
>temporal resolution and sensitivity.
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>Hobie Shackford
>Medical Physicist
>Roger Williams Medical Center
>Providence, RI
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>Scott Crail wrote:
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>> Could someone explain the advantage of using one large NAI crystal with
>> many photomultiplier tubes vs using many smaller NAI crystal (which should
>> be cheaper and more stable) and a one to one ratio for tubes to crystals
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>> Scott Crail
>>  OSU
>> crail@engr.orst.edu
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