Detection Methods Coherent ↔ Incoherent Photon Detection ↔ Bolometric Photon Counting ↔ Integrating.
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"Photon Counting Medical X-ray Imaging from Mammography to CT" Mats Danielsson KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
The Art of Experiment, Berkeley, CA , May 2-3, 2014
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The Erling-Persson Family Foundation
Sponsors for the Project
CT Gantry
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Who Counted Photons First?
What was that?
Maybe a photon
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Energy
To Count Photons – What does it mean?
• Number of X-rays • Pulse height give the
energy for each X-ray • No electronic noise
Result
X-ray photons
Threshold 1
Threshold 2
Threshold 3
Electronic noise
1 2 3 Time
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X-ray photons
Energy
Time
Integrating Current: Today’s praxis in X-ray Imaging
• Area of • Indirect estimate of
number of photons
Result
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Photon Counting or Integrating – Two Ways of Eating the Smorgasbord
Mix everything before you eat and try to guess the ingredients
The normal way (one dish at a time)
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Example of Clinical use Today: Mammography
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Photon Counting Mammography
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Spiculated mass
2D
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Crystalline Silicon Detector
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DQE at Zero Spatial Frequency
Monnin et al. Med. Phys., vol. 34 (3), pp. 906-914, 2007
DQE(
0)
PHILIPS Micro Dose Photon Counting
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Clinical Example: Experience from Breast Check, the Irish Breast Screening Program
• 4 static & 16 mobile screening units
• Equipment: – 11 CsI scintillator
– 10 a-Se
– 7 Photon counting
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Ireland Breast Screening Program Cancer Detection Rates
Mccullagh et al. The British Institute of Radiology (2011), doi: 10.1259/bjr/29747759
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Ireland Breast Screening Program Radiation Dose
P Baldelli et. al., “Comprehensive Dose Survey Of Breast Screening In Ireland”, Radiation Protection Dosimetry , Vol. 145, No. 1, pp. 52–60, 2010
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Average Mean Glandular Dose
Philips MicroDose* GE Essential Hologic Selenia
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Visualization of Iodine Contrast Agent • 35 mm invasive lobular
carcinoma
• Difficult to detect in 2D
• Difficult to detect in tomosynthesis
• Energy subtraction – clear improvement in this case
Courtesy Dr. Felix Diekmann
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Differentiation of Cysts from Cancer
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CONFIDENTIAL 2
On the photo you can tell what is what…
Acrylic
Aluminum
Aluminum
Acrylic
Acrylic
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CONFIDENTIAL 2
But on the X-ray image, can you tell what is what?
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Spectral image of acrylic Spectral image of Aluminium
On photon counting spectral you can!
All acrylic removed Aluminum removed
Al Al
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Measuring breast tissue attenuation Björn Cederström, Erik Fredenberg Philips, Solna, Sweden Matthew G. Wallis, Paula Willsher, Cambridge Breast Unit and NIHR Cambridge Biomed. Research Centre, U.K.
David R. Dance, Kenneth C. Young, NCCPM, Royal Surrey County Hospital, U.K.
Setup: – cyst samples in 1-cm cuvettes – PMMA + Al step wedge
Method: – Map cyst fluid directly into
(PMMA, Al)-space
E. Fredenberg et al. “Measurement of breast-tissue x-ray attenuation by spectral mammography: first results on cyst fluid”, Phys. Med. Biol. 58 (2013) 8609–8620
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Measurement of solid tumor attenuation
• Published data on tumor composition/attenuation scarce
• Different experimental condition
• Use same setup as for cyst fluid
• Tailored sample holder
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Clinical use in the Future: Computed Tomography
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Overview of detector
• Detector element size: 0.4 × 0.5 mm2
• Depth segmentation:
16 segments along incident direction
• 8 thresholds for each channel
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ASIC – Developed for Silicon Spectral CT
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Detector Materials
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Detector Materials for Spectral Photon Counting
Material Signal (20 keV X-ray)
Fano- factor
Speed (ns)
70% Absorption Depth (mm)
20 keV 100 keV
Silicon 5500 0.1 10 1 28
Gas (Krypton) 770 0.2 10 12 900 (Xe 200)
CdTe/CZT 2000 0.1 10 0.1 1.3
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Compton Scattering versus Photo-effect
Silicon CdZnTe
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Compton scattering?
H Bornefalk and M Danielsson, “Photon-counting spectral computed tomography using silicon strip detectors: A feasibility study,” Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1999–2022, Apr. 2010
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Front-end Electronics -very similar to high energy physics
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• Fast
• Small Signals
• Low noise
• Massive parallel processing
• Small channel to channel variation
• Low power
• Temperature stable
• Digital readout not inducing noise
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Electronics for Photon Counting
Multi-level Comparators and Counters
Memory Pre amp Shaper
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Problems: Pile-up and charge sharing
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• 120 kVp polychromatic x-ray spectrum
• 33 ns deadtime per x-ray detection
• Linear relation up to 200 Mcps/mm2
Are we fast enough?
X-ray count rate (Mcps/mm2)
Maximum clinical count-rate
0 160 320 480 640 800
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Measurement of Energy Resolution - Example
𝑓 𝑥;𝜇,𝜎,Α,Β =12 erfc (
𝑥 − 𝜇√2𝜎
)(𝐴 𝑥 − 𝜇 + 𝐵)
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Measurement of Energy Resolution - Example
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Normalization
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Threshold off-set
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Clinical Benefit Example: Bone versus Iodine
Calcium Iodine - Concentration
matching Calcium attenuation
Voxels with different materials can appear the same in image
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Wear in Knee Replacements Image Courtesy of Dr L. Wiedenhielm, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm Hospital
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Silicon CT segmented image
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State-of-the-art Karolinska Hospital
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Clinical trial focusing on stroke planned for 2015
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X-rays have color