Machine Learning with Scintillation Photon Counting Detectors to Advance PET Imaging Performance

利用闪烁光子计数探测器进行机器学习以提高 PET 成像性能

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Project Summary Clinical time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) systems capable of excellent coincidence time resolution (CTR) promise to drastically enhance effective 511 keV photon sensitivity. The ability to more precisely localize annihilation origins along system response lines constrains event data, providing improved signal-to- noise ratio (SNR) and reconstructed image quality by associating 511 keV photons more closely to their true origin. This SNR enhancement increases as CTR is improved, and a major goal of ongoing PET instrumentation research and development is to push system CTR ≤100 ps full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM). At this level of performance, events are constrained ≤1.5 cm, providing a ≥five-fold increase in SNR relative to a system with no TOF capability. Advanced systems capable of ≤100 ps FWHM CTR would effectively more than double or quadruple the effective 511 keV system sensitivity, in comparison to state-of-the-art, clinical TOF-PET systems (250-400 ps FWHM CTR). Thus, advancing CTR is also a pathway for greatly improved system sensitivity without increasing detection volume and system material cost. Standard PET detectors comprising segmented arrays of high-aspect-ratio scintillation crystal elements and aggressive electronic signal multiplexing cannot achieve this level of performance and are ultimately limited by poor light collection efficiency, depth-dependent scintillation photon transit time jitter seen by the photodetector, and poor electronic SNR for optimal discriminator time pickoff and 511 keV photon time of interaction estimation. To address this, we are developing a new detector readout concept for monolithic scintillation detectors which allows scintillation photons arriving at each photosensor pixel to be counted and directly digitized. The spatiotemporal arrival time of scintillation photons in monolithic detectors intrinsically carries all information on 511 keV photon energy, three-dimensional (3D) position and time of interaction, and 3D position of interaction dependent scintillation photon transit skew. [Thus, this new detector readout concept’s ability to directly digitize the temporal scintillation light maps on photosensor arrays coupled to monolithic scintillators offers a unique opportunity for machine learning (ML) techniques to extract 3D positioning and time of interaction estimators in large area, thick (high 511 keV photon detection efficiency) detector modules that are at the statistical limit of performance. We will leverage this new advancement to investigate the performance of ML applied to the digitized photon data streams from a prototype detector module to demonstrate high resolution, three-dimensional positioning capabilities and CTR in a design that also makes no sacrifices on detection efficiency. The proposed PET detector technology can have a significant impact on quantitative PET imaging. The image SNR enabled by the significant boost in effective sensitivity can be employed to substantially reduce tracer dose and shorten scan time/increase patient throughput, or to better visualize and quantify smaller lesions/features in the presence of significant background, which are important features that can make PET more practical and accurate, as well as help to expand its roles in patient management.]
项目摘要 具有良好符合时间的临床飞行时间正电子发射断层扫描(TOF-PET)系统 分辨率(CTR)承诺大大提高有效的511 keV光子灵敏度。能够更精确地 沿沿着系统响应线定位湮灭源约束事件数据,提供改进的信号- 通过将511 keV光子更接近于它们的真实光子, 起源这种SNR增强随着CTR的改善而增加,并且是正在进行的PET仪器的主要目标 研究和发展的目标是推动系统CTR ≤100 ps的半高宽(FWHM)。在这个级别的 性能,事件被限制为≤1.5 cm,相对于具有以下特性的系统,SNR增加≥ 5倍 没有飞行时间能力能够≤100 ps FWHM CTR的先进系统将有效地增加一倍以上, 与最先进的临床TOF-PET系统相比,有效的511 keV系统灵敏度提高了四倍 (250-400 ps FWHM CTR)。因此,提高CTR也是一种大大提高系统灵敏度的途径, 增加了检测体积和系统材料成本。标准PET探测器,其包括 高纵横比闪烁晶体元件和积极的电子信号多路复用不能实现这一点 并且最终受限于较差的光收集效率、深度依赖性闪烁 光电探测器观察到的光子渡越时间抖动,以及用于最佳渡越时间拾取的较差电子SNR 和511 keV光子相互作用时间估计。为了解决这个问题,我们正在开发一种新的探测器读数, 允许闪烁光子到达每个光电传感器像素的单片闪烁探测器的概念 被直接数字化闪烁光子在单片探测器中的时空到达时间 固有地携带关于511 keV光子能量、三维(3D)位置和时间的所有信息。 相互作用和相互作用相关的闪烁光子传输偏斜的3D位置。[Thus这款新的探测器 读出概念的能力,直接在光电传感器阵列上的时间闪烁光映射耦合 为机器学习(ML)技术提供了一个独特的机会, 大面积、厚(高511 keV光子探测效率)的相互作用估算器的定位和时间 检测器模块处于性能的统计极限。我们将利用这一新的进展, 研究ML应用于来自原型探测器模块的数字化光子数据流的性能 以展示高分辨率,三维定位能力和CTR的设计,也使 不牺牲检测效率。所提出的PET探测器技术可以对以下方面产生重大影响: 定量PET成像。通过有效灵敏度的显著提升实现的图像SNR可以 用于显著减少示踪剂剂量并缩短扫描时间/增加患者吞吐量,或更好地 在存在显著背景的情况下,可视化和量化较小的病变/特征,这很重要 这些功能可以使PET更加实用和准确,并有助于扩大其在患者中的作用。 管理。]

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Scintillation Photon Counting Detectors for 100 ps Time-of-Flight PET Imaging
用于 100 ps 飞行时间 PET 成像的闪烁光子计数探测器
  • 批准号:
    10504849
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 50.28万
  • 项目类别:
Scintillation Photon Counting Detectors for 100 ps Time-of-Flight PET Imaging
用于 100 ps 飞行时间 PET 成像的闪烁光子计数探测器
  • 批准号:
    10704157
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 50.28万
  • 项目类别:
Clinical Imaging Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Knife-Edge Slit Collimator-based Prompt Gamma Ray Imaging System
基于多刀口狭缝准直器的瞬发伽马射线成像系统的临床成像性能评估
  • 批准号:
    10511964
  • 财政年份:
    2022
  • 资助金额:
    $ 50.28万
  • 项目类别:
Low cost and high performance time-of-flight PET detectors
低成本、高性能飞行时间 PET 探测器
  • 批准号:
    9974310
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 50.28万
  • 项目类别:
Low cost and high performance time-of-flight PET detectors
低成本、高性能飞行时间 PET 探测器
  • 批准号:
    10569636
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 50.28万
  • 项目类别:
Low cost and high performance time-of-flight PET detectors
低成本、高性能飞行时间 PET 探测器
  • 批准号:
    10380854
  • 财政年份:
    2020
  • 资助金额:
    $ 50.28万
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