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Feasibility study of SiPM based scintillation detector for dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry

  • Park, Chanwoo (Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, College of Health Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Song, Hankyeol (Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, College of Health Science, Yonsei University) ;
  • Joung, Jinhun (Nucare. Inc.) ;
  • Kim, Yongkwon (Nucare. Inc.) ;
  • Kim, Kyu Bom (Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Chung, Yong Hyun (Department of Radiation Convergence Engineering, College of Health Science, Yonsei University)
  • Received : 2020.02.06
  • Accepted : 2020.03.30
  • Published : 2020.10.25
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Abstract

Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the noninvasive method to diagnose osteoporosis disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue. Many global companies and research groups have developed the various DXA detectors using a direct photon-counting detector such as a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) sensor. However, this approach using CZT sensor has some drawback such as the limitation of scalability by high cost and the loss of efficiency due to the requirement of a thin detector. In this study, a SiPM based DXA system was developed and its performance evaluated experimentally. The DXA detector was composed of a SiPM sensor coupled with a single LYSO scintillation crystal (3 × 3 × 2 ㎣). The prototype DXA detector was mounted on the dedicated front-end circuit consisting of a voltage-sensitive preamplifier, pulse shaping amplifier and constant fraction discriminator (CFD) circuit. The SiPM based DXA detector showed the 34% (at 59 keV) energy resolution with good BMD accuracy. The proposed SiPM based DXA detector showed the performance comparable to the conventional DXA detector based on CZT.

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