Gamma-ray imaging using a CdZnTe pixel array and a high-resolution, parallel-hole collimator
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 47 (6), 1923-1927
- https://doi.org/10.1109/23.914471
Abstract
The poor performance of current parallel-hole collimators is an impediment to planar high-resolution gamma-ray imaging, even when high-resolution semiconductor detector arrays are available. High-resolution parallel-hole collimators are possible but have not been fabricated because conventional collimator construction techniques severely limit achievable bore size and septal thickness. We describe development and testing of a high-resolution collimator with 4096 260-/spl mu/m square bores and 380 /spl mu/-m pitch, matched to our existing 2.5 cm/spl times/2.5 cm hybrid 64/spl times/64 CdZnTe arrays with multiplexer readout. The collimator is a laminar composite of about 100 layers of W sheets produced by photolithography and has an efficiency of 5/spl times/10/sup -5/. We have demonstrated sub-millimeter spatial resolution at 140 keV in both phantom and animal imaging using this system. We present images of resolved individual vertebrae in the spine of a mouse and lymphatic channels and nodes in a rat. The collimator and semiconductor array could form a compact module for use in a wide variety of gamma-ray imaging systems.Keywords
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