WO2006111883A2 - Digital silicon photomultiplier for tof-pet - Google Patents
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- the following relates to the radiation detection arts. It particularly relates to high-speed radiation detectors for positron emission tomography (PET), especially time-of-flight (TOF) PET, and will be described with particular reference thereto. However, the following relates more generally to radiation detectors for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), computed tomography (CT), and so forth, as well as to high-speed radiation detectors for other applications such as astronomy.
- PET positron emission tomography
- TOF time-of-flight
- a radiopharmaceutical is administered to a human patient or other imaging subject.
- the radiopharmaceutical produces radiation decay events that emit positrons, which travel a very short distance before rapidly interacting with an electron of the surrounding imaging subject in an electron-positron annihilation event to produce two oppositely directed gamma rays.
- the gamma rays are detected by radiation detectors surrounding the imaging subject as two substantially simultaneous radiation detection events that define a line of response (LOR) therebetween.
- the radiation detectors include scintillators that produce a burst or scintillation of light responsive to each gamma ray detection, and an array of photomultiplier tubes (PMT's) optically coupled with the scintillators that convert the light bursts into corresponding electrical signals.
- the PMT's are replaced by photodiodes that produce analog electrical currents proportional to the intensity of the light bursts.
- the gamma rays are detected "substantially simultaneously", if one of the two involved radiation detectors is closer to the electron-positron annihilation event than the other radiation detector, then there will be a small time difference between the two radiation detection events. Since gamma rays travel at the speed of light, this time difference between detections is typically around a few nanoseconds or less. In TOF-PET, the radiation detectors operate at sufficiently high speed to enable measurement of this small time-of-flight difference, which is then used to localize the electron-positron annihilation event along the LOR.
- the radiation detectors should have sub-nanosecond temporal resolution.
- PMTs are generally fast enough to perform TOF-PET imaging; however, PMTs are bulky, require high voltage biasing, and are not well- suited for small pixel sizes desirable for high resolution.
- Conventional photodiodes are fast enough for TOF-PET, but lack internal amplification, leading to poor signal-to-noise ratios.
- a charge-sensitive amplifier is typically employed to integrate the signal, which limits the bandwidth.
- Avalanche photodiodes can also be used; however, avalanche photodiodes typically suffer from high noise levels and high temperature and bias sensitivity in the gain.
- SiPM detectors have been proposed, for example in: E.A. Georgievskya et al., "The solid state silicon photomultiplier for a wide range of applications", 17 th Int'l Conf. on Photoelectronics and Night Vision Devices, Proceedings of SPIE vol. 5126 (2003); Golovin et al., "Novel type of avalanche photodetector with Geiger mode operation", Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physical Research A, volume 518, pages 560-64 (2004).
- SiPM detectors use a pixelated array of small avalanche photodiodes biased in the breakdown region and interconnected in parallel.
- the output is the analog sum of the currents of parallel- interconnected avalanche photodiodes operating in limited Geiger-mode.
- Each detected photon in the SiPM detector adds on the order of 10 6 electrons to the output current of the SiPM.
- the Geiger discharge responsive to photon detection is fast, providing sharp rising edges of the signal that facilitate precise time measurements.
- Energy- and temporal-resolution scales with l/sqrt(N) where N is the number of firing cells.
- the SiPM device has certain disadvantages.
- the analog current produced by a photon detection is affected by bias voltage, operating temperature, and critical circuit parameters such as the quenching resistance value. These factors can change the analog current produced by each photon detection, thus limiting the energy resolution of the SiPM.
- the analog configuration also has the disadvantages of producing high dark counts and allowing faulty avalanche photodiodes to substantially limit detector device manufacturing yield.
- a detector pixel for use in conjunction with a scintillator that converts a radiation particle to a burst of light.
- An array of detector cells is provided. Each detector cell includes a photodiode biased in a breakdown region and digital circuitry coupled with the photodiode.
- the digital circuitry is configured to output a first digital value in a quiescent state and a second digital value responsive to detection of a photon by the photodiode.
- Digital triggering circuitry is configured to output a trigger signal indicative of a start of an integration time period responsive to a selected number of one or more of the detector cells transitioning from the first digital value to the second digital value.
- Readout digital circuitry accumulates a count of a number of transitions of detector cells of the array of detector cells from the first digital state to the second digital state over the integration time period.
- digital timestamp circuitry is configured to output a digital timestamp associated with the count. The digital timestamp is based on a time of the trigger signal relative to a time reference signal.
- a radiation detector includes a scintillator and an array of detector pixels as set forth in the previous paragraph arranged to receive bursts of light produced by the scintillator in response to received radiation.
- a time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) imaging system is disclosed.
- a plurality of radiation detectors as set forth in the previous two paragraphs are disposed to detect gamma rays emitted from an imaging region.
- Gamma ray pair detection circuitry identifies two substantially simultaneous gamma ray detections by two of the radiation detectors.
- a line of response processor determines a spatial line of response connecting the two gamma ray detections.
- a time of flight processor localizes a positron-electron annihilation event along the line of response based on a time difference between the two substantially simultaneous gamma ray detections.
- a method is performed in conjunction with a scintillator that converts a radiation particle to a burst of light.
- Digital circuitry is switched from a first digital value to a second digital value responsive to detection of a photon by a photodiode biased in a breakdown region by the digital circuitry to define a switching event.
- a trigger signal indicative of a start of an integration time period is generated responsive to a selected number of one or more said switching events associated with a plurality of said photodiodes.
- a count of switching events associated with the plurality of said photodiodes is accumulated over the integration time period.
- the method further includes generating a digital timestamp associated with the accumulating over the integration time period. The digital timestamp is based on a time of generation of the trigger signal and a reference time signal.
- a radiation detector including a scintillator and circuitry for performing the method set forth in the previous paragraph.
- One advantage resides in providing high data-rate radiation detection for TOF-PET, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), transmission computed tomography (CT), astronomy, and other applications.
- SPECT single photon emission computed tomography
- CT transmission computed tomography
- Another advantage resides in providing a digital radiation detector output. Another advantage resides in providing a digitally timestamped detector output.
- Another advantage resides in providing improved spatial detector resolution.
- Another advantage resides in improved detector device manufacturing yield with low sensitivity to temperature, bias voltage, and process parameters.
- the invention may take form in various components and arrangements of components, and in various process operations and arrangements of process operations.
- the drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention.
- FIGURE 1 diagrammatically shows a TOF-PET system employing high-speed pixelated digital radiation detectors.
- FIGURE 2 diagrammatically shows a cross-sectional view of one of the pixelated digital radiation detectors of the TOF-PET system of FIGURE 1.
- FIGURE 3 shows a general circuit diagram of one of the detector cells of the pixelated digital radiation detector.
- FIGURE 4A shows a more detailed circuit diagram of one embodiment of one of the detector cells.
- FIGURE 4B shows a more detailed circuit diagram of another embodiment of one of the detector cells.
- FIGURE 5 shows a circuit diagram of one pixel of the pixelated digital radiation detector.
- FIGURE 6 shows a circuit diagram of one the pixelated digital radiation detectors.
- FIGURE 7 shows a cross-sectional view of one physical layout embodiment of the pixelated digital radiation detector, in which the photodiodes define a photodiode layer and the digital circuitry is disposed in a digital circuitry layer separate from and electrically coupled with the photodiode layer.
- FIGURE 8 shows a perspective view of another physical layout embodiment of the pixelated digital radiation detector, in which the photodiodes define a photodiode layer and the digital circuitry is disposed in the photodiode layer interspersed amongst the photodiodes.
- FIGURE 9 shows a plan view of the light-sensitive area of a variant device which includes the pixelated digital radiation detector area and an additional proportional photodiode that produces an analog photocurrent when the flux of photons is high enough to saturate the pixelated digital radiation detector area.
- FIGURE 10 shows an illustrative example of the measurement setup used in the first stage of a defective cell disablement process for detectors including analog circuitry.
- FIGURE 11 shows a block schematic of one imaging counter cell.
- FIGURE 12 shows a sensor block diagram.
- FIGURE 13 shows a photodetector incorporating a fuse for disablement.
- a time-of- flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) scanner 8 includes a plurality of radiation detectors 10 arranged to view an imaging region 12.
- the plurality of radiation detectors 10 are arranged in several rings of detectors along an axial direction; however, other arrangements of radiation detectors can be used.
- the plurality of radiation detectors 10 is diagrammatically illustrated; typically the radiation detectors are housed within a housing 14 of the scanner 8 and thus are not visible from the outside, and typically each ring of radiation detectors includes hundreds or thousands of radiation detectors.
- the TOF-PET scanner 8 includes a couch 16 or other support for positioning a human patient or other imaging subject in the imaging region 12.
- the couch 16 is linearly movable in the axial direction generally transverse to the rings of radiation detectors 10 to facilitate acquisition of three-dimensional imaging data.
- the imaging subject can be held stationary, and the plurality of rings of radiation detectors used to acquire three-dimensional TOF-PET imaging data.
- a suitable radiopharmaceutical is administered to the patient or other imaging subject prior to initiation of TOF-PET imaging.
- the radiopharmaceutical includes a radioactive substance that undergoes radioactive decay events that emit positrons.
- the positrons rapidly annihilate with nearby electrons of the imaging subject.
- the resulting positron-electron annihilation event produces two oppositely directed gamma rays having energies of 511 keV.
- the gamma rays travel at the speed of light, i.e. ⁇ 3xlO 8 meters/sec.
- the imaging region 12 typically has a diameter or other characteristic dimension of about two meters or less, the time-of- flight for a gamma particle from the position of the positron-electron annihilation event to one of the detectors of the plurality of radiation detectors 10 is about a few nanoseconds or less.
- the two oppositely directed gamma rays strike two of the radiation detectors substantially simultaneously.
- each radiation detector 10 includes a scintillator 20 that produces a scintillation or burst of light when the gamma ray strikes the scintillator 20.
- the burst of light is received by an array of detector pixels 22 monolithically disposed on a silicon substrate 24.
- the detector pixels 22 are digital detector pixels that output values including a digital representation of a count of photons (denoted “count” in FIGURE 1) and a digital representation of a timestamp (denoted "timestamp” in FIGURE 1) indicative of when the burst of light corresponding to the scintillation event was detected by the detector pixel 22.
- the plurality of radiation detectors 10 outputs indexing information including, for example, a detector index (denoted “n detecto r" in FIGURE 1) indicating which of the radiation detectors 10 output the radiation detection event, and a detector pixel index (denoted “k p ⁇ ” in FIGURE 1) indicating which detector pixel or pixels of that radiation detector detected the burst of light corresponding to the radiation detection event.
- the scintillator 20 is selected to provide high stopping power for 511 keV gamma rays with rapid temporal decay of the scintillation burst.
- Some suitable scintillator materials are LSO, LYSO, MLS, LGSO, LaBr and mixtures thereof.
- FIGURE 2 shows the scintillator 20 as a single crystal, an array crystals can instead be used.
- an optional planar light pipe 26 can be interposed between the scintillator 20 and the detector pixels 22 to improve transmission of photons of the scintillation light burst to the detector pixels 22.
- the scintillator 20 and optional light pipe 26 are optionally encased in a reflective coating 28 which directs scintillation light toward the pixels 22.
- the digital data concerning radiation detection events are processed by a pre-processor 30 that performs selected data processing. For example, if a scintillation event is detected by a plurality of detector pixels, then the pre-processor 30 can employ Anger logic or other processing to identify spatial coordinates r for each radiation detection event and to estimate an energy of the detected radiation particle. The resulting spatial and energy information for each radiation detection event is stored in an events buffer 32.
- the scintillator layer is divided into scintillator tiles sized to correspond with the detector pixels, and each detector pixel is optically coupled with a single scintillator tile.
- each scintillator tile may include a reflective coating similar to the reflective coating 28 to channel the scintillation photons to the coupled pixel.
- a gamma ray pair detection circuitry 34 processes the radiation detection events to identify pairs of substantially simultaneous gamma ray detections belonging to corresponding electron-positron annihilation events. This processing can include, for example, energy windowing (that is, discarding radiation detection events outside of a selected energy filtering window disposed about 511 keV) and coincidence-detecting circuitry (that is, discarding radiation detection event pairs temporally separated from each other by greater than a selected time filtering interval).
- a line-of-response (LOR) processor 38 processes the spatial information pertaining to the two gamma ray detection events (for example, with the two events represented by spatial coordinates ri and T 2 , respectively, as computed by the pre-processing 30) to identify a spatial line of response (LOR) connecting the two gamma ray detections. Since the two gamma rays emitted by a positron-electron annihilation event are oppositely spatially directed, the electron-positron annihilation event is known to have occurred somewhere on the LOR.
- the radiation detectors 10 have sufficiently high temporal resolution to detect a time-of-flight difference between the two "substantially simultaneous" gamma ray detections.
- a time-of-flight processor 40 analyzes the time difference between the times (denoted 'V and 1 V in FIGURE 1) of the two gamma ray detection events to localize the positron-electron annihilation event along the LOR.
- the result accumulated for a large number of positron-electron annihilation events, is a set of histoprojections 42.
- a reconstruction processor 44 reconstructs the set of histoprojections 42 into a reconstructed image using any suitable reconstruction algorithm, such as filtered backprojection or iterative backprojection with correction.
- the resulting reconstructed image is stored in an images memory 46, and can be displayed on a user interface 48, printed, stored, communicated over an intranet or the Internet, or otherwise used.
- the user interface 48 also enables a radiologist or other user to control the TOF-PET scanner 8; in other embodiments, a separate controller or control computer may be provided.
- each pixel 22 of the radiation detector 10 includes an array of detector cells 50; FIGURE 3 shows a general circuit diagram of one such detector cell 50.
- a photodiode 52 is biased in a breakdown region and serves as an input to digitizing circuitry 54.
- An output 56 of the digitizing circuitry 54 has a first digital value corresponding to a quiescent state, and transitions to a second digital value responsive to detection of a photon by the photodiode 52.
- the switching of the output 56 from the first digital value to the second digital value activates an open collector trigger line driver 60 which causes a trigger signal to be applied to a common trigger line or bus 62.
- an acquisition enable line 67 initiates the photon counter 66.
- a quenching circuit 70 which may be either active or passive, limits current through the photodiode 52 and is configured to facilitate transition the biasing circuitry from the second digital value back to the first digital value.
- the detector cell 50 may count more than one photon if the detector cell 50 is quenched back to the quiescent first digital value before the integration time period expires.
- the final count stored in the photon counter/FIFO buffer 66 is accessible via a digital bus 68.
- the photodiode 52 is suitably biased in a Geiger-mode type of operation. When the photodiode 52 breaks down, large amount of charge (for example, about 10 6 electrons per received detection in some photodiodes) is generated through the avalanche breakdown process. This charge is transported primarily through the quenching circuit 70, which has an effective resistance of typically several hundred kilo-ohms to limit the current flowing through the photodiode 52. With the current thus limited, charge remaining in the photodiode 52 distributes spatially to reduce the electric field in the avalanche region of the photodiode 52.
- the photodiode 52 includes a guard ring (not shown) around the periphery that prevents avalanche breakdown at the edges of the photodiode 52.
- the guard ring structure suitably acts like an ordinary reverse-biased PN diode with internal fields too low for the avalanche breakdown to occur.
- This embodiment includes a passive quenching circuit 70' embodied as a quenching resistor.
- a passive quenching circuit 70' embodied as a quenching resistor.
- the junction of the photodiode 52 breaks down and an electric current starts to flow through the photodiode 52 and the quenching resistor 70'.
- This current causes a voltage drop across the resistor 70', thus lowering the potential on the inverter input.
- the voltage difference relative to V DD should be large enough to drive the inverter output into a "high” state.
- the switching characteristics of the inverter can be optimized by adjusting the transistor widths.
- the inverter output returns to a "low” state automatically when the photodiode 52 recovers from the breakdown.
- the detector cell 50' further implements inhibit logic 74 which does not switch off a faulty detector cell completely, but rather prevents faulty detector cells from generating false triggers. Faulty detector cells will generate excess currents which are taken into account in the trigger validation circuit (described later).
- the trigger line 62 is tied to a "high" level via a pull-up resistor (not shown in FIGURE 4A). This way, the triggers from all the detector cells 50' are logically “or”-ed together and the trigger line 62 is pulled down by that detector cell which detects the first photon.
- FIGURE 4B a more detailed circuit diagram of another example embodiment detector cell 50" is described, which includes an active quenching circuit 70" to speed up the discharge of the junction capacitance of the photodiode 52 to return to the quiescent level, thus reducing the recovery time of the photodiode 52. Shorter recovery times are expected to lead to higher sensitivity, since a given detector cell 50" is more likely to count more than one photon during the integration time period when it recovers quickly, and are expected to lead to higher dynamic range and better energy resolution of the detector cell 50".
- the photon counter 66 is enabled either by the trigger line 62 or a dedicated line if a hierarchical trigger network is used, which is pulled down by that detector cell which detects the first photon, and is held down by main pixel logic (not shown in FIGURE 4B) for the integration time period.
- the number of detected photons accumulated by the photon counter 66 is transferred from the photon counter 66 to a buffer or other digital storage (not shown in FIGURE 4B) on the rising edge of the trigger line 62 or a dedicated readout line.
- the counter 66 is reset automatically, for example by the low level of the inverted and delayed signal on the trigger line 62, in preparation for the next scintillation burst detection event.
- the dead time between integration time periods can be as low as the buffer transfer time plus the reset time of the counter 66, which in some embodiments is expected to be less than one nanosecond for CMOS implementations.
- the detector cell 50" of FIGURE 4B also includes inhibit logic 74 to prevent false triggers from faulty detector cells.
- each pixel 22 of the radiation detector 10 includes a two-dimensional array of detector cells 50 and associated pixel- level digital pixel logic 80.
- Digital readout circuitry for the pixel 22 includes pixel- level digital acquisition and readout circuitry 82 and associated circuitry at the detector cell level.
- the digitizing circuitry 54 of each detector cell 50 provides a threshold-based binary digital output indicating whether or not the photodiode 52 of that detector cells has entered breakdown.
- the digital circuitry 54 outputs a first binary value when the photodiode 52 is in its quiescent state, and transitions to a second binary value when the photodiode current increases beyond a threshold value indicative of photon detection.
- the signal of each photodiode 52 is thus digitized at the level of the detector cell 50. Readout is performed by the pixel- level logic counting the digital transitions of the detector cells to produce a digital pixel output indicative of the number of detected photons.
- the digitize-and-count method of FIGURES 3 and 5 is far less sensitive to bias variations, operating temperature variations, tolerances in components of the quenching circuit 70, or so forth. As long as these secondary effects do not cause erroneous switching or missed switching of the thresholding digital circuitry 54, they generally do not affect the energy resolution of the detector cell 50.
- the detector cells 50 are addressed like in a standard memory block, using address decoders for the rows and columns of the array of detector cells 50.
- This solution provides a sequential readout of the cell data, in which case the pixel-level readout circuitry 82 can be a simple digital accumulator.
- cells lines are read out in parallel, with each line having its own accumulator for the partial sum, and the partial sums are added in a parallel adder tree.
- the adders are incorporated into the detection cells, so that the sum of the whole line is obtained while clocking the data out and the line sum is read out from the last detector cell in the line. As the summation in this latter readout approach can be pipelined, the readout architecture is fast, allowing short readout intervals.
- the counters should not be allowed to wrap around. For example, a four-bit counter counting from 0...15 should not be allowed to increment from 15 back to 0.
- saturation of the pixel 22 can be detected when the counter reads its highest value (e.g., 15 for a four-bit counter).
- the number of bits for avoiding wrap-around depends solely on the minimum anticipated cell recovery time and the maximum length of the integration period. While the integration window is a design parameter, the cell recovery time is of a statistical nature, as photon detection probability is a function of the slowly rising over-voltage during cell recovery.
- the digital bus 68 can be either a parallel or a serial bus, depending on space and time constraints.
- the digital pixel logic 80 further includes trigger digital circuitry 84, trigger validation circuitry 85, and an output buffer 86 that stores the photon count of the pixel 22.
- the trigger digital circuitry 84 accesses a reference clock 88 (shown as an electrical trace that is connected to a suitable oscillator or other clocking device not shown in FIGURE 5) to provide a time reference for the trigger digital circuitry 84.
- the trigger digital circuitry 84 determines the time stamp of a radiation detection event in a global (for example, scanner) time frame.
- the trigger digital circuitry modules 84 of all the pixels 22 of the scanner run synchronously at a precision of preferably less than lOOps.
- the reference signal 88 is used to synchronize the trigger digital circuitry modules 84 of the pixels, providing them with a common time base for the entire scanner.
- the integration time period is a fixed time interval starting at the occurrence of the trigger signal. In other embodiments, the integration time period is dynamically terminated when the rate of new counts decreases below a threshold value.
- the trigger digital circuitry 84 is also preferably configured to output the digital timestamp (see FIGURE 1) associated with the count.
- the digital timestamp is based on a time of the trigger signal output by the trigger line driver 60 of the first one of the detector cells 50 that detects a photon from a scintillation burst.
- the pixel logic 80 optionally still further includes data correction registers and inhibit sequence drivers.
- Automated test and calibration circuitry 87 is also optionally implemented by the pixel logic 80. In one test/calibration method, the dark count rate of the pixel 22 (possibly including background counts produced by intrinsic radioactivity of the scintillator 20) is monitored. In another test/calibration method, an external excitation from a test charge injected into the detector cells 50 is used to test and calibrate the pixel 22.
- the trigger validation circuitry 85 validates the trigger signal and aborts the integration if it is determined that the trigger signal was false. In one approach, the trigger validation circuitry 85 analyzes the current flowing through the bias network of the pixel 22. If the total current stays below a certain current threshold for a selected time interval (e.g. for 10 nanoseconds into the acquisition time period) as measured by a discriminator or other circuitry, then the acquisition is aborted and an automatic reset sequence is initiated in preparation for the next trigger.
- a certain current threshold for a selected time interval e.g. for 10 nanoseconds into the acquisition time period
- the discriminator output will rise to a 'high' level and the acquisition will continue.
- the falling edge of the bias current discriminator is used to detect the end of the scintillation burst so as to adapt the integration time period to substantially match the end of the acquisition interval. This can suppress pile-up in high count rate applications.
- Another suitable method makes use of the fact that the probability of two thermally generated triggers inside a short time window decreases with the distance of the triggering cells since thermal triggers are generally not correlated.
- the scintillation burst should act on detector cells 50 across the light-sensitive area of the pixel 22.
- the trigger validation circuitry 85 can analyze the triggers from individual detector cells 50, for example, and validate the trigger signal if two distant lines generate a trigger signal within a selected time window.
- Other approaches for trigger validation can also be used, such as employing a current sensor with adjustable discriminator set at a trigger threshold higher than the single photon level.
- the counter 66 is triggered by the acquisition enable line 67. Triggering on the first photon can be problematic if there is a high background flux of photons unrelated to positron-electron annihilation events. This background can be the result of, for example, a secondary slow decay mode of the scintillator. In such cases, detector cells fire frequently, increasing the dead time of the pixel. To provide more robust counter initiating, at the detector cell level (Figs.
- the photon counter is enabled by the separate, 'acquisition enable' line 67 which is pulled down by the pixel logic on either the detection of the first photon (trigger line goes down) or by the discriminator of the trigger validation circuit 85 when the current through the bias network has exceeded the user-defined trigger level.
- This line defines the length of the integration window and is driven by the pixel logic.
- the trigger validation circuit 85 is extended to include a multiplexer 89 selecting either the trigger line 62 (for a single photon trigger) or the leading edge discriminator output (for multiple photon trigger) as the input to the time to digital converter/trigger validation circuits.
- the trigger validation circuit 85 is extended to provide the 'acquisition enable' signal 67 to the detector cells 50, 50', 50". Page: 14
- a suitable logic can be implemented to generate the trigger signal if a selected number of cells (trigger lines) become active at the same time.
- This implementation has the practical advantage requiring only digital components.
- the threshold is defined only statistically.
- the open collector driver is optionally omitted from the detector cells and a modified design is used in the trigger validation circuit.
- the pixels 22 are arranged in a two-dimensional array to define the light-sensitive surface of the pixelated radiation detector 10.
- the embodiment shown in FIGURE 6 uses a pixel readout in which each line of pixels 22 is read out by FIFO buffers 90.
- the output buffers 90 each include tristate output buffers allowing the data to be transferred over a shared digital data bus 92.
- the events are sorted according to their time stamps by the readout arbitration in the line output buffers 90 and also by the shared bus arbitration by output buffer 92, thus leading to a stream of event data which is sorted over time.
- This optional feature substantially simplifies the search for coincident events.
- a data request daisy-chain is suitably used for write access arbitration. The daisy-chained sums are transferred to a radiation detector output buffer 94 for transfer off-chip.
- the digital circuitry (such as the digital biasing circuitry 54, 54', 54", digital triggering circuitry 60, 60', 60", 84, and readout digital circuitry 66, 82) of the radiation detector 10 are defined by CMOS circuitry disposed on the silicon substrate 24.
- CMOS circuitry disposed on the silicon substrate 24.
- the photodiodes 52 of the array of detector cells 50, 50', 50" define a photodiode layer 100
- the digital circuitry are disposed in a CMOS digital circuitry layer 102 separate from and electrically coupled with the photodiode layer 100.
- the photodiodes 52 define a photodiode layer 100', and the CMOS digital circuitry (such as the digital biasing circuitry 54, 54', 54", digital triggering circuitry 60, 60', 60", 84, and readout digital circuitry 66, 82) are disposed in the photodiode layer 100' interspersed amongst the photodiodes 52.
- the CMOS digital circuitry such as the digital biasing circuitry 54, 54', 54", digital triggering circuitry 60, 60', 60", 84, and readout digital circuitry 66, 82
- CMOS logic draws power only when switching states, only those parts of the radiation detector 10 that are continuously actively clocked by the clock 88 will contribute to the baseline power consumption. Since the pixel 22 is activated by a trigger signal generated by one of the photodiodes 52 which are biased in the breakdown region in the quiescent state, power consumption is dependent on the photon detection rate and, thus, on the flux of received photons plus the dark count rate. Control of power consumption of the pixel 22 can be implemented by deliberately increasing the dead time of an individual pixel between two acquisitions. This could be done automatically by the pixel logic 80 depending on the temperature of the pixel. The temperature of the pixel can be measured directly by a temperature sensor (not shown) or estimated indirectly from the dark count rate of the pixel 22.
- CMOS logic draws power only when switching states, the overall power consumption can be dramatically reduced by using a CMOS implementation over an analog implementation.
- the power consumption per channel is 3OmW and the global part of the chip is 162mW.
- the power consumption would be a constant 1156W.
- the power consumption for a CMOS implementation such as the various implementations described herein, has two different values, a static value and a dynamic value.
- the static power consumption is the power required when there are no counts and hence no switching of states. It does include power for the logic of for the dynamic switching as the logic must be ready to receive counts.
- the dynamic power consumption is the power required when the detector is actively receiving counts, and hence switching states.
- the power consumption in active state is dependent on the amount of activity; the more counts and switching of states, the power that is required.
- the static power consumption for a similar 1890 chip detector is about 1OW or less.
- the dynamic power consumption can vary, depending on the activity, but is typically about 300W or less.
- This saturation problem can be addressed in various ways. In one approach, the photosensitive area defined by the photodiodes 52 is broken into a larger number of smaller photodiodes. The reduced area of each photodiode reduces the likelihood that it will detect a photon.
- the larger total number of photodiodes provides higher pixel- level sensitivity to the flux of photons, although it generally does not fully compensate for the reduced area of each cell.
- the detector cells should have some separation to reduce optical crosstalk between neighboring detector cells. Typically, the separation of the cells is in the order of several microns or less, when trenches filled with opaque material are used for the separation. Thus, increasing the number of cells generally reduces the ratio of sensitive area to the total area of the cell to some degree. Additionally, increasing the number of detector cells, while keeping the cell size constant, typically leads to a proportional increase of the dark count rate.
- a proportional photodiode 110 is included in the photosensitive area.
- the proportional photodiode 110 is larger than the photodiodes 52 used in digital detection.
- the proportional photodiode 110 is configured to produce an analog photocurrent proportional to the flux of photons impinging upon the pixel 22 when said flux of photons is high enough to cause substantially all of the detector cells 50, 50', 50" of the pixel 22 to transition from the first digital state to the second digital state during the integration time period.
- the proportional photodiode 110 can be located in other positions respective to the array, such as centered in the array or at a corner of the array.
- the proportional photodiode 110 may be distributed as a plurality of smaller electrically interconnected proportional photodiodes, such as a proportional photodiode located at each corner of the array of pixels 22.
- the trigger signal output by the first one of the photodiodes 52 to detect a photon is still suitably used to provide the timing information for the gamma ray detection event.
- the timestamp output by the radiation detector 10 is used; however, if the digital photodiodes 52 saturate, then the photocurrent produced by the proportional photodiode 110 is used to indicate photon flux intensity rather than using the digital count.
- the proportional photodiode 110 can be a conventional PIN diode, an avalanche photodiode with integrated analog or digital readout circuitry, or the like.
- the pixelated digital radiation detectors are described herein in conjunction with an example TOF-PET application. However, the skilled artisan can readily adapt the disclosed pixelated digital radiation detectors for other application, such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging, transmission computed tomography (CT) imaging, astronomy applications, and so forth.
- SPECT single-photon emission computed tomography
- CT transmission computed tomography
- the scintillator 20 is suitably omitted from the radiation detector 10.
- a defective cell disabling method for an analog circuit system can comprise of two separate stages, namely a sensing stage and a calibration stage.
- a SiPM array or device under test (DUT) is biased at the nominal bias voltage above threshold in a light-tight setup.
- the Geiger-discharge in semiconductors generates secondary light photons, approximately 3 per 100,000 electrons in the junction on average.
- a cell with gain 1,000,000 will generate about 30 optical photons.
- the average wavelength of these photons is about 1 ⁇ m, thereby enabling the photons to travel large distances in silicon before being absorbed.
- Some of these photons trigger breakdowns in neighboring cells, commonly referred to as optical crosstalk, if proper shielding is not used.
- the sensing detectors must be 1 : 1 coupled to the DUT cells.
- the trigger rate of the sensing detectors can then be directly associated with the dark count rate of individual cells. Additional measurement of the charge pulse of the DUT can be used to directly measure the gain and its variation for individual DUT cells. However to collect sufficient statistics, such measurement would likely mean a significant increase of the measurement time.
- a laser beam will disable faulty cells. Additionally, the number of active cells per pixel can be adjusted to equalize the dynamic range of the pixels, if required. In some implementations, a fuse is used to disable the faulty cells. While a fuse would undesirably consume additional area, this can be minimized if the fuse is placed over the guard ring. Another alternative would be to cut the poly resistor itself.
- FIG. 10 An illustrative example of the measurement setup used in the first stage is shown in Figure 10.
- a single photon counter array 200 is 1:1 coupled to the DUT 210 using a collimator structure 220.
- the single photon counter array 200 must have significantly lower dark count rate and thus has to be cooled down to at least -50°C.
- Each detector 230 in the photon counter array 200 is triggered by photons emitted by the Geiger-mode discharge. The detector indicates the event by pulling down the row and column lines and starting a hold-off interval to avoid double counting of the same event.
- the length of the hold-off interval must be adjusted to the recovery time of the DUT.
- An active quenching/recharge circuit 240 can be used to obtain well-defined hold-off intervals. Additional circuits can be used to measure the charge of the pulse in correlation to the coordinates of the event.
- a block schematic of one imaging counter cell is shown in Figure 11, while a sensor block diagram is shown in Figure 12.
- Increasing the DUT temperature can be used to accelerate the measurement.
- the pixel dark count rate and gain data is used to select a subset of cells that will be disabled. This can be any number of defective cells as well as other cells that can be disabled to provide uniformity.
- a laser is used to cut the fuses in these cells, as illustrated in the modified detector cell shown in Figure 13.
- a report can be generated allowing a user to determine how many cells were disabled because they were deemed faulty.
- the report can further provide the location of the disabled faulty cells.
- the location of the disabled faulty cells can, in some embodiments, be used to disable other cells. Typically this would be done in some sort of geometrical pattern to allow for more uniform detection of radiation about the detector.
- the disablement of other cells can be automatic, in response to manual input or feedback, or a combination thereof.
- the resulting silicon photomultiplier array will have lower dark count rate at the expense of decreased sensitivity because of the area lost due to dead cells.
- the loss in dynamic range can be accounted for beforehand by integrating higher number of smaller- sized cells in the pixels.
- the fuse implementation can be used in combination with digital circuitry.
- the fuse can be used for calibration, while the digital circuitry is used for the count detection.
- Other embodiments incorporating these types of ideas are also contemplated by this disclosure.
- a leading edge discriminator can be used to generate the trigger signal and to suppress dark counts.
- the trigger signal can be generated digitally by applying a logical operation on the trigger lines. For example, a pixel can be subdivided into two halves, or blocks, and the trigger signal is only generated if both halves detect the photon. In such embodiments, the number and size of the blocks can be adjusted to set the average threshold and the selectivity.
- other similar designs can be implemented, including, but not limited to, other geometries and other ways of correlating pixel blocks.
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