Development and evaluation of photon-counting Cd0.875Zn0.125Te0.98Se0.02 detector for measuring bone mineral density

J. Byun; Y. Kim; J. Seo; E. Kim; K. Kim; A. Jo; W. Lee; B. Park

doi:10.1007/s13246-022-01213-4

Development and evaluation of photon-counting Cd_0.875Zn_0.125Te_0.98Se_0.02 detector for measuring bone mineral density

J. Byun, Y. Kim, J. Seo, E. Kim, K. Kim, A. Jo, W. Lee, B. Park

School of Health and Environmental Science

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Abstract

Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) has been actively researched and developed by researchers in various fields. In medical applications, especially photon-counting, CZT enables improved image quality, multi-material decomposition, and improved dose efficiency. Moreover, band gap engineering and selenium addition on CZT improved electrical, spectroscopic and structural properties, thereby supporting performance of CZT as a photon-counting detector. In this study, it is shown that Cd_0.875Zn_0.125Te_0.98Se_0.02 (CZTS) shows sufficient performance without loss of detection efficiency. We carried out a study involving the application of this CZTS on calculating bone mineral density (BMD) values, because this application has a novelty of new material for BMD sensor which follows the CdTe- or CdZnTe- based BMD detector. Anatomical images from different energy bins contained different information of attenuation although the images were taken in the same region at the same time. Moreover, calculated BMD values had a proper tendency depending on the amount of bone in that region. The final BMD value was 1.1972 g/cm², which is close to the real value of 1.2 g/cm². The introduction with a bone filter and a smaller pixel size will improve the accuracy and precision of photon-counting CZTS detectors for measuring BMD values. However, in this study the CZTS showed the feasibility that a photon-counting CZTS detector can help the measurement of BMD values and the diagnosis of osteoporosis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	245-253
Number of pages	9
Journal	Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13246-022-01213-4
Publication status	Published - 2023 Mar

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Funding Information:
National Research Foundation of Korea, 2020R1A2C2007376, B. Park, National research foundation of korea, RS-2022-00165164, J. Seo, Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning, 20214000000070, B. Park.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No.2018M2A2B3A01072384, RS-2022-00165164) and by Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government (MOTIE) (20214000000070, Promoting of expert for energy industry advancement in the field of radiation technology).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine.

Keywords

Bone mineral density
CdZnTeSe
Photon-counting detector

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biotechnology
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Biophysics
Biomedical Engineering
Instrumentation
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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