Author(s)

Hossein Zamani Zeinali^1*, Mehran Ataee², Hamid Ravanbakhsh³, Ehsan Masumi Goodarzi³, Samana Ghoreishi⁴, Gholamreza Raisali¹

¹Application of Radiation Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Karaj, Iran.
²Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (AEOI), Tehran, Iran.
³Department of Physics, Peyambare Azam Institute, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
⁴Parto Control in Advance Co., Tehran, Iran.

The Adaptive Quality Control Phantom (AQCP) is a computer-controlled phantom which positions and moves a radioactive source in the Field of View (FOV) of an imaging nuclear medicine device on a definite path to produce a spatial distribution of gamma rays to perform QC Tests such as the Collimator Hole Angulation (CHA) and the Center of Rotation (COR) of Single Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT). The collimator hole angulation for six collimators was measured using a point source and a computer-controlled cylindrical positioning system. In this method, the displacement of the image of a point source was examined as the AQCP was moving point source vertically away from the collimator face. The results of the high-accuracy measurement method of CHA show that the measurement accuracy for absolute angulation errors is better than ±0.024°. The Root Mean Square (RMS) of CHA for LEHR, LEHS and LEUHR collimators of SMV dual heads camera and LEGP, MEGP and HEGP of GE Millennium MG were evaluated to be 0.290°, 0.292°, 0.208°, 0.154°, 0.220° and 0.202°, respectively. It is to be added in this connection that the evaluated RMS of CHA for LEHR collimator with the distance variation from the collimator’s surface ±1 mm has been varied ±0.04 degree. A new method for the center of rotation assessment by AQCP is introduced and the results of this proposed method as compared with the routine QC test and their differences are discussed in detail. We defined and measured a new parameter called Dynamic Mechanical Error (DME) for applying the gantry motion correction.

Nuclear Medicine, Adaptive Quality Control Phantom, Collimator Hole Angulation, Center of Rotation

Zeinali, H. , Ataee, M. , Ravanbakhsh, H. , Goodarzi, E. , Ghoreishi, S. and Raisali, G. (2014) The Precise Methods for the Measurement of Collimator Hole Angulation and Center of Rotation of SPECT by Adaptive Quality Control Phantom. World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 4, 208-215. doi: 10.4236/wjnst.2014.44026.