Novel Photon Counting Clinical CT Detectors

新型光子计数临床 CT 探测器

• 批准号: 7482068
• 负责人: WILLIAM C BARBER
• 金额: $ 14.2万
• 依托单位: DXRAY, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7482068
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Photon counting detectors with energy binning can improve CT performance by counting and binning each x-ray detected. Photon counting x-ray detectors applied to mammography and radiography have shown a dose reduction of 40% to 400% while maintaining sufficient contrast for these applications. For use in CT these detectors are limited, due to an upper bound in terms of their maximum count rate, and advances in maximum count rate capabilities is needed. In order to overcome count rate limitations, new technological developments in reducing the size of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) has been applied to reading out semiconductor detectors. These advancements, along with improvements to the cost and reliability of the compound semiconductor cadmium telluride (CdTe), allow us to develop a photon counting detector and read-out technology for CT. Therefore the overall goal of this Fast Track Phase I/Phase II proposal is to develop a photon counting CT detector with energy binning and read-out that is capable of producing energy resolved CT scan which can deliver less radiation dose and differentiate between tissue types.

描述(申请人提供)：具有能量入库的光子计数探测器可以通过对检测到的每一条X射线进行计数和入库来提高CT性能。应用于乳房X光照相和放射照相的光子计数X射线探测器在保持足够对比度的同时，剂量减少了40%到400%。对于CT中的使用，由于其最大计数速率的上限，这些检测器是有限的，并且需要在最大计数速率能力方面取得进展。为了克服计数速率限制，在减小专用集成电路(ASIC)尺寸方面的新技术发展已被应用于读出半导体探测器。这些进步，加上化合物半导体碲化镉(CdTe)成本和可靠性的提高，使我们能够开发用于CT的光子计数探测器和读出技术。因此，这一快速通道一期/二期方案的总体目标是开发一种具有能量存储和读出功能的光子计数CT探测器，该探测器能够产生能量分辨CT扫描，能够提供更少的辐射剂量并区分组织类型。