Print Email Facebook Twitter Towards a Full-Flexible and Fast-Prototyping TOF-PET Block Detector Based on TDC-on-FPGA Title Towards a Full-Flexible and Fast-Prototyping TOF-PET Block Detector Based on TDC-on-FPGA Author Venialgo Araujo, E. (TU Delft (OLD)Applied Quantum Architectures) Lusardi, Nicola (Politecnico di Milano) Garzetti, Fabio (Politecnico di Milano) Geraci, Angelo (Politecnico di Milano) Brunner, S. (TU Delft RST/Medical Physics & Technology) Schaart, D.R. (TU Delft RST/Medical Physics & Technology) Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Date 2018 Abstract Typically, a time-of-flight (TOF) PET block detector is built using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), since they integrate a high number of channels at a reasonable power consumption and into a small area. However, ASICs’ flexibility is limited and prototyping times are long because a semiconductor fabrication process is required in every design iteration. Alternatively, fast terminal (FT) silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) require a simplified analog front-end in order to achieve time-of-flight (TOF) accuracy. In addition, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can allocate time-to-digital converters (TDCs) as well as complex digital readout logics. In this work, we propose building TOF-PET block detectors based on FPGAs, FT-SiPMs, and minimal amount of off-the-shelf components. In this way, TOF-PET accuracy is achieved with a full-flexible and fast prototyping solution. We evaluated the coincidence resolving time (CRT), performance degradations due to channel multiplexing, energy resolution, and scintillator pixel encoding performance of SiPM arrays utilizing the proposed approach. Experimental results show minimal timing degradations, when multiplexing FTs. Moreover, simulation results show a low reduction in the singles count rate of multiplexed channels at typical brain-PET radioactive doses. Subject silicon photomultiplier (SiPM)positron emission tomography (PET)coincidence resolving time (CRT)time-of-flight (TOF)time-to-digital converter (TDC)field-programmable gate array (FPGA) To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e250d591-05aa-4890-beb3-038e32df4776 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TRPMS.2018.2874358 Embargo date 2019-04-05 Source IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, PP (99), 1-11 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 E. Venialgo Araujo, Nicola Lusardi, Fabio Garzetti, Angelo Geraci, S. Brunner, D.R. Schaart, E. Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon Files PDF 08482311taverne.pdf 3.11 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e250d591-05aa-4890-beb3-038e32df4776/datastream/OBJ/view