Beta camera low activity tumor imaging
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Summary, in English
A new technique, the beta camera, to complement film autoradiography, with fast quantitative imaging of beta particle-emitting radionuclides has been developed. It consists of a thin plastic scintillator and a light-sensitive microchannel plate detector. The thin tissue sample is mounted on the scintillator. Our first system had a high background and a moderate spatial resolution of 900 microns. We now report an improved system with a photomultiplier tube mounted on the scintillator of the microchannel plate detector. Only events registered by both detectors are accepted. A fast coincidence unit processes the signals, and if a time overlap exists, an event is generated in the beta camera. In the coincidence mode, images with low activity distribution of 201Tl (count rate 1 s-1) in 50 microns-thick slices of a human glioma tumor could be recorded with a spatial resolution of 500 microns.
Publishing year
1993
Language
English
Pages
869-872
Publication/Series
Acta Oncologica
Volume
32
Issue
7-8
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Cancer and Oncology
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1651-226X