Citation
Morrocchi, Matteo and Marcatili, Sara and Belcari, Nicola and Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina and Collazuol, Gianmaria and Ambrosi, Giovanni and Santoni, Cristiano and Corsi, Francesco and Foresta, Maurizio and Marzocca, Cristoforo and Matarrese, Gianvito and Sportelli, Giancarlo and Guerra Gutiérrez, Pedro and Santos Lleo, Andres de and Guerra, Alberto del
(2013).
Proof of concept of an imaging system demonstrator for PET applications with SiPM.
"Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A: : Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment", v. 720
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pp. 67-69.
ISSN 0168-9002.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.12.033.
Abstract
A PET imaging system demonstrator based on LYSO crystal arrays coupled to SiPM matrices is under construction at the University and INFN of Pisa. Two SiPM matrices, composed of 8×8 SiPM pixels, and 1,5 mm pitch, have been coupled one to one to a LYSO crystals array and read out by a custom electronics system. front-end ASICs were used to read 8 channels of each matrix. Data from each front-end were multiplexed and sent to a DAQ board for the digital conversion; a motherboard collects the data and communicates with a host computer through a USB port for the storage and off-line data processing. In this paper we show the first preliminary tomographic image of a point-like radioactive source acquired with part of the two detection heads in time coincidence.