A GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation to describe the time response of a coupled SiPM and LYSO detection system

作者：Leming E^*; De Santo A; Salvatore F; Camanzi B; Lohstroh A

来源：Journal of Instrumentation, 2014, 9(06): C06008.

DOI：10.1088/1748-0221/9/06/C06008

• Scintillators, scintillation and light emission processes (solid, gas and liquid scintillators)
• Photon detectors for UV, visible and IR photons (solid-state) (PIN diodes, APDs, Si-PMTs, G-APDs, CCDs, EBCCDs, EMCCDs etc)
• Detector modelling and simulations I (interaction of radiation with matter, interaction of photons with matter, interaction of hadrons with matter, etc)

In recent years the silicon photomultiplier has been investigated as an alternative to the traditional photomultiplier tube in a range of applications, including Time-of-flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET). In this paper we discuss a GEANT4 simulation framework, which has been developed to drive the design of a scalable TOF-PET apparatus to be built at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. First results presented in this paper simulate the response of an Hamamatsu Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (S10362-33-050c) coupled to LYSO scintillating crystals, with focus on the timing response of coincidence signals.

• 出版日期2014-6