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For successful targeted alpha radiotherapy (TAT), verifying the accurate position and distribution of a targeted radiotherapeutic agent in a patient or phantom is important. This paper, describes our investigation of depth-of-interaction (DOI) Compton imaging for the two γ-rays emitted during TAT with the 225Ac radioactive isotope. We optimized the design parameters of the DOI Compton camera, for example, the inter-detector distance, based on the figure of merit (FOM). The performance of DOI Compton imaging for TAT was improved because Doppler broadening and the energy uncertainty are inversely proportional to the radiation energy and the position uncertainty of the depth information is decreased. After the contrast phantom and the resolution phantom had been designed, two reconstruction algorithms, the filtered back-projection (FBP) algorithm and the maximum-likelihood expectation maximization (MLEM) algorithm, were applied to each reconstructed phantom image, and the qualities of the reconstructed images for the two γ-rays (218 keV and 440 keV) were compared. In the quantitative evaluation of the reconstructed images, the MLEM reconstruction algorithm performed better than the FBP algorithm. Based on Monte Carlo simulation studies, the DOI Compton images of the 225Ac radioactive isotope emitting two γ-rays demonstrated the capability of imaging a targeted radiotherapeutic agent in TAT.
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Yoon, C., Jo, S., Cho, Y. et al. Estimate of the 225Ac Radioactive Isotope Distribution by Means of DOI Compton Imaging in Targeted Alpha Radiotherapy: A Monte Carlo Simulation. J. Korean Phys. Soc. 76, 954–960 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.76.954
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