Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs
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| author | Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Szymon Beyene, Ermias Yitayew Chug, Neha Conti, Maurizio Curceanu, Catalina Czerwiński, Eryk Das, Manish Eliyan, Kavya Valsan Hajduga, Jakub Jalali, Sharareh Kacprzak, Krzysztof Kaplanoglu, Tevfik Kapłon, Łukasz Kasperska, Kamila Khreptak, Aleksander Korcyl, Grzegorz Kozik, Tomasz Kumar, Deepak Venadan, Anoop Kunimmal Kubat, Karol Lisowski, Edward Lisowski, Filip Mędrala-Sowa, Justyna Mryka, Wiktor Moyo, Simbarashe Pandey, Piyush del Rio, Elena Perez Porcelli, Alessio Rachwał, Bartłomiej Rädler, Martin Rominger, Axel Sharma, Sushil Shi, Kuangyu Skurzok, Magdalena Steinberger, William M. Szumlak, Tomasz Tanty, Pooja Ardebili, Keyvan Tayefi Tiwari, Satyam Stępień, Ewa Łucja Moskal, Paweł |
| author_facet | Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Szymon Beyene, Ermias Yitayew Chug, Neha Conti, Maurizio Curceanu, Catalina Czerwiński, Eryk Das, Manish Eliyan, Kavya Valsan Hajduga, Jakub Jalali, Sharareh Kacprzak, Krzysztof Kaplanoglu, Tevfik Kapłon, Łukasz Kasperska, Kamila Khreptak, Aleksander Korcyl, Grzegorz Kozik, Tomasz Kumar, Deepak Venadan, Anoop Kunimmal Kubat, Karol Lisowski, Edward Lisowski, Filip Mędrala-Sowa, Justyna Mryka, Wiktor Moyo, Simbarashe Pandey, Piyush del Rio, Elena Perez Porcelli, Alessio Rachwał, Bartłomiej Rädler, Martin Rominger, Axel Sharma, Sushil Shi, Kuangyu Skurzok, Magdalena Steinberger, William M. Szumlak, Tomasz Tanty, Pooja Ardebili, Keyvan Tayefi Tiwari, Satyam Stępień, Ewa Łucja Moskal, Paweł |
| contents | Background: After its first ex-vivo and in-vivo demonstration, Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) has received considerable interest as a potential new diagnostic biomarker. High sensitivity Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems are needed for PLI since it requires simultaneous registration of annihilation photons and prompt gamma. In this simulation-based study, a~feasibility of PLI with the long axial field-of-view Biograph Vision Quadra (Quadra) and the Total Body J-PET scanner was investigated.
Methods: The study was performed using the GATE software. Background radiation, present within the Quadra tomograph, was added to the simulation. First, the optimal placement of the energy window for the registration of the prompt gamma was investigated. Next, the organ-wise sensitivity of Quadra was calculated for the $^{68}$Ga, $^{44}$Sc, $^{22}$Na and $^{124}$I radioisotopes. Finally, the sensitivity for the scandium isotope was compared to the sensitivities obtainable with the Total Body J-PET scanner, as well as with the modular J-PET prototype.
Results: The PLI sensitivities for the Quadra with the background radiation are estimated to 9.22(3), 10.46(4), 5.91(3), and 15.39(4) cps/kBq for the $^{44}$Sc, $^{68}$Ga, $^{22}$Na and $^{124}$I radioisotopes, respectively. The highest sensitivity was obtained when the energy window for the deexcitation photon is adjacent to the energy window for the annihilation photons. The determined PLI sensitivities with Quadra and the Total Body J-PET are in the order of sensitivities of standard PET imaging with the short axial field-of-view ($\sim$20 cm) PET scanners.
Conclusion: The organ-wise PLI sensitivity of Quadra has been computed for the $^{68}$Ga, $^{44}$Sc, $^{22}$Na and $^{124}$I radioisotopes. A sensitivity gain by a factor of 150 was estimated relative to the modular J-PET system previously used for the first in-vivo PLI. |
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| spellingShingle | Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Szymon Beyene, Ermias Yitayew Chug, Neha Conti, Maurizio Curceanu, Catalina Czerwiński, Eryk Das, Manish Eliyan, Kavya Valsan Hajduga, Jakub Jalali, Sharareh Kacprzak, Krzysztof Kaplanoglu, Tevfik Kapłon, Łukasz Kasperska, Kamila Khreptak, Aleksander Korcyl, Grzegorz Kozik, Tomasz Kumar, Deepak Venadan, Anoop Kunimmal Kubat, Karol Lisowski, Edward Lisowski, Filip Mędrala-Sowa, Justyna Mryka, Wiktor Moyo, Simbarashe Pandey, Piyush del Rio, Elena Perez Porcelli, Alessio Rachwał, Bartłomiej Rädler, Martin Rominger, Axel Sharma, Sushil Shi, Kuangyu Skurzok, Magdalena Steinberger, William M. Szumlak, Tomasz Tanty, Pooja Ardebili, Keyvan Tayefi Tiwari, Satyam Stępień, Ewa Łucja Moskal, Paweł Medical Physics Background: After its first ex-vivo and in-vivo demonstration, Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) has received considerable interest as a potential new diagnostic biomarker. High sensitivity Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems are needed for PLI since it requires simultaneous registration of annihilation photons and prompt gamma. In this simulation-based study, a~feasibility of PLI with the long axial field-of-view Biograph Vision Quadra (Quadra) and the Total Body J-PET scanner was investigated. Methods: The study was performed using the GATE software. Background radiation, present within the Quadra tomograph, was added to the simulation. First, the optimal placement of the energy window for the registration of the prompt gamma was investigated. Next, the organ-wise sensitivity of Quadra was calculated for the $^{68}$Ga, $^{44}$Sc, $^{22}$Na and $^{124}$I radioisotopes. Finally, the sensitivity for the scandium isotope was compared to the sensitivities obtainable with the Total Body J-PET scanner, as well as with the modular J-PET prototype. Results: The PLI sensitivities for the Quadra with the background radiation are estimated to 9.22(3), 10.46(4), 5.91(3), and 15.39(4) cps/kBq for the $^{44}$Sc, $^{68}$Ga, $^{22}$Na and $^{124}$I radioisotopes, respectively. The highest sensitivity was obtained when the energy window for the deexcitation photon is adjacent to the energy window for the annihilation photons. The determined PLI sensitivities with Quadra and the Total Body J-PET are in the order of sensitivities of standard PET imaging with the short axial field-of-view ($\sim$20 cm) PET scanners. Conclusion: The organ-wise PLI sensitivity of Quadra has been computed for the $^{68}$Ga, $^{44}$Sc, $^{22}$Na and $^{124}$I radioisotopes. A sensitivity gain by a factor of 150 was estimated relative to the modular J-PET system previously used for the first in-vivo PLI. |
| title | Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs |
| topic | Medical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03172 |