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Dec 15

SNR with pileup-1

Tag: Implementation,Noise,Physics,softwareadmin @ 4:04 pm
In the next posts, I will discuss my paper “Signal to noise ratio of energy selective x-ray photon counting systems with pileup”, which is available for free download here. The paper uses an idealized model to derive limits on the effects of pileup on the SNR of A-vector data. There have been many papers (see, for example Overdick et al.[4] Taguchi et al.[3], and Taguchi and Iwanczyk [6]) that use more or less realistic models of photon counting detectors to predict the quality of images computed from their data. These models are necessarily complex since state of the art is relatively primitive compared with the extreme count rate requirements in diagnostic imaging. The complexity of detailed models makes it hard to generalize from the results. Moreover, as research continues, the properties of the detectors will improve and their response will approach an idealized limit. This is the case with the energy integrating detectors used in state of the art medical imaging systems whose noise levels have been reduced so that the principal source of noise is the fundamental quantum noise that is present in all measurements with x-ray photons.

 

In this post, I will describe the rationale for an idealized model of photon counting detectors with pulse height analysis with pileup and illustrate it with the random data it generates. The following posts will show how the model can be applied to compute the SNR of systems with pileup and to compare the SNR to the full spectrum optimal value. The model will be used to determine the allowable response time so that the reduction in SNR due to pileup is small.

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