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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 26.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Nucl Sci. 2008 Jun 1;55(3):862–869. doi: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922832

TABLE I.

Performance of L(Y)SO PQS-Block Detectors

Detector
Application
Animal
PET
Human
PET
Scintillation Crystal LYSO LSO
Block size (mm3) 18.6 ×18.6 ×10 49.7 ×49.7 ×20
Crystal dimension (mm3) 1.27 ×1.27 ×10 3.25 ×3.25 ×20
Packing fraction 95.6% 98.2%
Decoding Resolution
crystals per PMT
196
crystals/PMT
225
crystals/PMT
The peak to valley ratio of
decoding map
2.7 2.8
Crystal signal pulse height range 560~780 487~807
Light collect efficiency 71.8% 60.3%
Crystal signal pulse heights of 4
regions
1: 712 2: 674 3:
654 4: 626
1: 610 2: 595
3: 595 4: 610
Light collect efficiency 87.9% 97.6%
Crystal energy resolution range 11.9% ~ 18.6% 12.0%~18.9%
Crystal energy resolution average 14.1% 15.6%
After symmetric restoration
Crystal signal pulse height range 607~743 538~648
Pulse height average 680 605
Light collect efficiency 81.7% 83.0%
Crystal energy resolution range 12.9% ~ 15.8% 13.5%~17.3%
Crystal energy resolution
average
14.1% 15.6%
Crystal energy resolution of 4
regions
1:14.1 2:13.9
3:13.9 4: 14.6
1: 15.4 2: 15.8
3: 15.3 4: 16.1
Average spec peak 679.9 ch 602.9 ch