THEEFFECTOFNON-IDEALDETECTORSONENERGY…：非理想的探测器对能量的影响….pptVIP

THE EFFECT OF NON-IDEAL DETECTORS ON ENERGY WEIGHTED SPECTRA USED IN X-RAY MEDICAL IMAGING George D. Patatoukas1, Panagiotis F. Liaparinos1, Anastasios D. Gaitanis2, Ioannis S. Kandarakis2, George S. Panayiotakis1 1. Department of Medical Physics, Medical School, University of Patras, 265 00 Patras, Greece 2.Depatrment of Medical Instrumentation Technology, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Agiou Spyridonos street, Aigaleo, 122 10 Athens, Greece AIM The present study investigates the effect that the energy weighting technique has on the quality of signal to noise ratio (SNR) in x-ray medical imaging under the assumption that the detector considered is non-ideal. A theoretical evaluation of the SNR under these conditions is carried out. INTRODUCTION Previous studies ignored scintillator-induced noise. SNR evaluation under mammographic conditions. Energy-sensitive pixel detectors, could define each photon not only spatially but also in terms of its energy. METHOD An algorithm was produced to study the variation of the weighting factor in terms of anode material, of energy and in terms of tumour or microcalcification thickness. Different anode materials (Molybdenum and Wolfram) were used for a variety of different energies from 25 to 40 kVp. Various possible thicknesses were considered for both microcalcifications and tumours. The phantom designed was 1-dimensional. METHOD (II) METHOD (III) The energy weighting factor is defined in the following way: Attenuation coefficient values were calculated according to the following formulae for the cross section τ(E) and mass attenuation coefficient μ (E): METHOD (IV) SCINTILLATOR CHARACTERISTICS (Gd2O2S:Tb) Emission: Forbidden 4f 4f transition Highest intensity line: 545 nm (green) High Z material (64) X-ray to light conversion efficiency ηc=0.19 Thickness: 32 mgcm-2 Density: 7.3 gcm-3 SIGNAL AND NOISE DEFINITION METHOD (V) SNR SNR WEIGHTED SNR RATIO RESULT