{"doi":"10.1109/trpms.2024.3361891","title":"Performance Comparison of DOI-Encoding PET Detectors Based on 1.1-mm Pitch BGO Arrays With Different Reflectors","abstract":"Bismuth germanate (BGO)-based positron emission tomography (PET) detectors are potential candidates for low-dose imaging PET scanners, owing to the high stopping power and low background radiation of BGO. In this article, we compared the performance of two dual-ended readout PET detectors based on <inline-formula xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$15\\times15$ </tex-math></inline-formula> BGO arrays. Both arrays had the same 1.1 mm pitch but utilized different reflectors—barium sulfate (BaSO4) and enhanced specular reflector film (ESR)—for high-resolution PET applications. The detectors were constructed with Hamamatsu 13361–2050-08 silicon photomultiplier arrays. Each BGO element had dimensions of <inline-formula xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$1.02\\times 1.02\\times20$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm3. The lateral surfaces of the BGO elements were unpolished (saw-cut), while the two ends were polished. Flood histograms showed that the detector based on the BGO array with BaSO4 reflector had much better crystal identification and depth-of-interaction (DOI) resolution. Specifically, the energy, DOI, and timing resolutions for the detector using the BGO array with BaSO4 reflector were 19.8 ± 1.5%, 4.13 ± 0.48 mm, and 2.80 ± 0.23 ns, respectively. In contrast, the values obtained using the BGO array with ESR reflector were 20.9 ± 2.1%, 7.69 ± 1.92 mm, and 2.93 ± 0.20 ns, respectively.","journal":"IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences","year":2024,"id":493957,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9589,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1286074,"name":"Shixian Du","orcid":"0009-0006-5269-2303","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":426566,"name":"Junwei Du","orcid":"0000-0002-1719-8266","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":43,"raw_metadata":{"citation_network_status":"fetched"},"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:09:07.920649Z","pmid":"39279872","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}