방사성동위원소 위치에 따른 산업용 SPECT 성능에 미치는 영향

Effect of Radioisotope Position on Performance of Industrial SPECT

  • 문진호 (한국원자력연구원 동위원소이용기술개발부) ;
  • 김종범 (한국원자력연구원 동위원소이용기술개발부) ;
  • 정성희 (한국원자력연구원 동위원소이용기술개발부)
  • Moon, Jinho (Radioisotope Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Jongbum (Radioisotope Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Jung, Sung-Hee (Radioisotope Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
  • 투고 : 2012.07.12
  • 심사 : 2012.08.13
  • 발행 : 2012.09.30

초록

Demand of fluid flow visualization has increased in industrial processes, because medical imaging technology is highly developed. As a part of the industrial process imaging technology, industrial single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) system was developed to measure the cross-sectional distribution of the process fluid. The SPECT consists of 36 NaI (Tl) detectors with the hexagonal configuration. Reconstructed images were acquired for various positions of radioactive source to estimate SPECT device performance. To evaluate the reliability of the experimental results, the Monte Carlo simulation results are compared with experimental results. In general, the experimental and simulation results were consistent. However, as the source position was getting far from the center of the reactor, the accuracy of reconstructed images was compromised. It seems to be due to the inconsistent spatial resolution of the collimators according to the source position.

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과제정보

연구 과제 주관 기관 : 교육과학기술부