ISSN 1004-4140
CN 11-3017/P
郑睿, 陈警斌, 刘雨龙, 等. 全数字PET关键材料硅酸钇镥闪烁晶体研究进展[J]. CT理论与应用研究(中英文), 2024, 33(4): 1-15. DOI: 10.15953/j.ctta.2024.014.
引用本文: 郑睿, 陈警斌, 刘雨龙, 等. 全数字PET关键材料硅酸钇镥闪烁晶体研究进展[J]. CT理论与应用研究(中英文), 2024, 33(4): 1-15. DOI: 10.15953/j.ctta.2024.014.
ZHENG R, CHEN J B, LIU Y L, et al. Advance in Lutetium Yttrium Silicate Scintillation Crystal for All-Digital PET[J]. CT Theory and Applications, 2024, 33(4): 1-15. DOI: 10.15953/j.ctta.2024.014. (in Chinese).
Citation: ZHENG R, CHEN J B, LIU Y L, et al. Advance in Lutetium Yttrium Silicate Scintillation Crystal for All-Digital PET[J]. CT Theory and Applications, 2024, 33(4): 1-15. DOI: 10.15953/j.ctta.2024.014. (in Chinese).

全数字PET关键材料硅酸钇镥闪烁晶体研究进展

Advance in Lutetium Yttrium Silicate Scintillation Crystal for All-Digital PET

  • 摘要: 硅酸钇镥(LYSO)凭借其优异的综合性能,已成为正电子发射断层成像(PET)中最为主流的闪烁晶体材料。近些年来,由多电压阈值(MVT)理论发展而来的全数字PET技术,实现了闪烁脉冲的源头数字化,提高了PET成像空间分辨率、系统灵敏度等关键指标,催生了质子治疗监测、正电子寿命谱等新应用。不同于传统的时间间隔采样方法,MVT是一种基于电压-时间的纵向采样技术,在时间很快的脉冲信号采样领域具有天然优势。因此,调控LYSO晶体的闪烁发光特性,以适应MVT采样方法,从而发掘其精准数字化的最大潜能,是数字PET应用需求下LYSO闪烁晶体的一个新发展方向。本文综述LYSO晶体的闪烁原理、性能调控和生长技术。梳理如何调制LYSO晶体光输出、衰减时间和均一性等关键性能,以适应全数字PET的采样特性。介绍本团队面向全数字PET需求,开发的快衰减、高均一LYSO晶体的研究进展。最后,结合LYSO研究现状和数字PET探测器的新需求,展望LYSO闪烁晶体的未来发展方向。

     

    Abstract: Lutetium Yttrium Silicate (LYSO) has become the most prominent scintillation crystal material in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) because of its outstanding comprehensive performance. In recent years, the emerging All-Digital PET technology based on the Multi-Voltage Threshold (MVT) method has digitized the origin of scintillation pulses, thereby improving key metrics such as spatial resolution and system sensitivity; this advancement has also given rise to new applications like proton therapy monitoring and positron lifetime spectroscopy. Unlike traditional time interval sampling methods, MVT represents a longitudinal sampling technique based on voltage-time, offering inherent advantages in rapidly varying pulse signal sampling domains. Consequently, tailoring the scintillation luminescence properties of LYSO crystals to adapt to the MVT sampling method becomes a new development direction for LYSO scintillation crystals under the demand of digital PET applications. This paper reviews the scintillation principles, performance modulation, and growth techniques of LYSO crystals. It outlines strategies for adjusting key properties of LYSO crystals, such as light output, decay time, and uniformity to align with the sampling characteristics of All-Digital PET. Furthermore, the paper presents the research progress of fast-decaying and highly uniform digitally modified LYSO crystals developed by the research team to meet the demands of All-Digital PET. Finally, based on the current research status of LYSO and the new demand for digital PET, the future development direction of LYSO scintillation crystals is discussed.

     

/

返回文章
返回