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PET Project:
current and future developments
A. Trindade – PET/LIP Group
Jornadas LIP, January 2008
Outline:
Development of PET technologies applied to mammography (PET I)
Development of new technologies (PET II)
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Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women: 4500 new cases each year in Portugal
Whole body PET using 18F-FDG radiotracer has an increasing application for breast cancer detection
Breast Cancer and PET
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PET: physiological functions of the tissue
There is a need to improve the sensitivity and specificity of PET for small lesions
X-ray: lesion size, shape and tissue density
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Dedicated PET scanners for breast imaging
ClearPEM requirements:
High detection sensitivity
Spatial resolution (1-2 mm FWHM)
Time resolution for backgr. rejection (1-2 ns)
Shorter exams and/or less dose (370 MBq)
Detector concept:
Two planar heads (FOV ~ 15 cm x 17 cm)
Mammary gland and axilla region exams
Exam with the patient in prone position
Ajustable distance between heads and rotation
angle
Breast exam
Axilla exam
Positron Emission Mammography (PEM)
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IBEB (Inst. Biofísica e Engª Biomédica - FCUL)
HGO (Hospital Garcia de Orta)
IBILI (Inst. Biomédico Invest. Luz e Imagem - FMUC)
INOV / INESC-ID (Inst. Engª Sistemas Computadores)
INEGI (Inst. Engª Mecânica e Gestão Industrial)
The PET-Mammography Consortium
8 Institutes
40 People
Crystal Clear Collab.
LIP (Lab. Instrumentação e Física Exp. de Partículas)
TagusPark S.A.Financiamento: AdI (Agência de Inovação)
The PET-Mammography consortium was created in December 2002
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Scientific coordination
R&D activities on radiation detectors
Electronic systems arquitecture and development
Data acquisition software development
Detector design and performance studies
Detector integration
Commissioning and pre-clinical tests
PET/LIP Group
R. Bugalho, B. Carriço,
M. Ferreira, R. Moura,
C. Ortigão, J. Pinheiro,
J. C. Silva, P. Rodrigues,
A. Trindade, J. Varela
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Detector Module Performance
Optimization studies:
Crystal surface roughness
Reflector type
Optical coupling medium
Characterization studies:
Energy resolution: 15% @ 511 keV
Ligth collection
DOI resolution: 2.2 mm FWHM
Cross-talk contamination: 4-5%
Ageing effects
Discrete 32 channels electronic setups
Single readout(flood irradiation)
Double readout(flood and colimated
irradiations)
LIP
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APD Quality Control
400 Hamamatsu APD quality control
Gain vs bias voltage
Dark current
Gain gradient
One person full time for 4 months (2006)
Development of an automated setup (2007):
Slots for 16 APDs
Settings - Altera DE2 board/Labview
10 days for 400 APDs
LIP
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ClearPEM at Hospital Garcia de Orta(Installation in 2008, clinical trials with 300 patients)
Control Rack
Robot
INEGI
DetectorHeads
Data Acquisition Electronics
(L1 hardware trigger)
Cooling System(working Temp.=18ºC)
INEGI
Service Rack
1. FE Emulator Electronics (LIP, INOV)2. DAE Server (L2 software trigger) (LIP)3. Service Manager (slow control sw) (LIP)4. High Voltage Supplys5. Low Voltage Supplys
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Scanner Operator Workstation
Reconstruction andvisualization software
Acquisition tool (LIP, IBEB, IBILI)
Detector and data info.
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First ClearPEM Image (Na-22 source)
Acquired Data
Simulated Data
LIP, IBEB
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Lesion Detectability (5 min. exam)
LIP, IBEB
3D-OSEM images of a breast phantom from simulated dataImages not corrected for attenuation, scatters or randoms
Results support that ClearPEM scanner can improve the detection of breast lesions
5 mm lesions: 100% detectability for all L/B FDG ratios
3 mm lesions: 100% detectability for the highest L/B FDG ratios
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PET I Activities
Detector Integration
First full integration exercice of the ClearPEM system: May 2007 at TagusLIP
All the sub-systems were tested (next talk):
Detector heads integration Front-End electronics Data acquisition electronics Data acquisition and slow control software
Some revisions are currently in progress before the final integration
Commissioning and Pre-clinical tests
Detector calibration methods Image correction techniques: normalization Tests with radioactive phantoms Definition of the scanner operation protocols
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TagusLIP: LIP Laboratory at TagusPark Reorganization of the laboratory in
2007
Inside the bunker Bunker for work withradioactive sources
Laboratory AreaFirst floor
First floor
Computing
Internal network upgraded to Gigabit
Dedicated servers for data analysis and electronics developments
Mass storage in NFS server
Automatic synchronization with PET storage dCache area (FTP Grid)
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PET II Activities
New PET detector modules
Revised APD array / evaluation of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMTs)
Revised electronics: frontend and off-detector data acquisition (next talk)
Small animal imaging platform
ClearPEM-Sonic (PET-US)
PET insert for Magnet Resonance Imaging (PET-MRI)
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Baseline design like ClearPEM but several upgrades foreseen
To be installed at TagusLIP:
A technological demonstrator for future PET R&D developments
Link with institutes interested in PET for biomedical applications
Small Animal Imaging Platform
Moby (mouse) phantom Planar geometry
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Small Animal Images
Soft tissuein gray
Bone squeletonin white
Phantom Geometry
Reconstructed Activity
Anatomy/Activity Fusion
3D-OSEM images of a mouse bone scan (18F) from simulated data
Bone uptake
LIP, IBEB