Spatial resolution and natural image quality assessment evaluation of gamma camera image using pinhole collimator in lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate scintillation detectoropen access
- Authors
- Kim, Kyuseok; Lee, Youngjin
- Issue Date
- Jul-2023
- Publisher
- KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
- Keywords
- Gamma camera imaging; Pinhole collimator; Lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) scintillation detector; Spatial resolution evaluations
- Citation
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.55, no.7, pp.2567 - 2571
- Journal Title
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 55
- Number
- 7
- Start Page
- 2567
- End Page
- 2571
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/88482
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.net.2023.04.027
- ISSN
- 1738-5733
- Abstract
- Scintillator materials are widely used in the medical and industrial fields for imaging systems using gamma cameras. In this study, image evaluation is performed by modeling a gamma camera system based on a lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) scintillation detector using a pinhole collimator that can improve the spatial resolution. A LYSO detector-based gamma camera system is modeled using a Monte Carlo simulation tool. The geometric concept of the pinhole collimator is designed using various magnification factors, and the spatial resolution is measured using the acquired source image. To eval-uate the resolution, the full width at half maximum (FWHM) and natural image quality assessment (NIQE), a no-reference-based parameter, are used. We confirm that the FWHM and NIQE values decrease simultaneously when the diameter of the pinhole collimator increases. Additionally, we confirm that the spatial resolution improves as the magnification factor increases under the same pinhole diameter condition. Particularly, a 0.57 mm FWHM value is obtained using the modeled gamma camera system with a LYSO scintillation detector. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that a pinhole collimator with a LYSO scintillation detector is a promising gamma camera imaging system.& COPY; 2023 Korean Nuclear Society, Published by Elsevier Korea LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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