The present invention relates to an alpha spectrometry scanner for measuring one or more characteristics of radiation particles received from a radioactive sample under test, which sample is comprised in a radiopharmaceutical, said scanner comprising: detector means comprising a pixelated detector comprising a two dimensional array of detector pixels sensitive to said radiation particles received from said sample; a readout circuit in electric communication with said detector means, arranged to readout each pixel of said array, and wherein said readout circuit is arranged to generate, based on said readout of each of said detector pixels, a charge pattern for each hit of a radiation particle on said detector means, said charge pattern comprising spatial data, temporal data and energy deposited for each detector pixel of said array; spectroscopic analyser means in electric communication with said readout circuit to receive each charge pattern generated by said readout circuit, wherein said spectroscopic analyser means are arranged with a selective algorithm to extract features from said charge pattern and to identify and quantify a corresponding alpha particle of said sample based on said extracted features; a collimator arranged for selecting radiation particles that are on a path from said radioactive sample under test, towards said detector means, wherein said collimator is positioned in front of said detector means, and is comprised of an alpha particle vacuum collimator or an alpha particle air-flush collimator, said vacuum collimator or air-flush collimator is arranged to restrict the passage of said radiation particles and select particles on the path towards the pixels of the array of the pixelated detector.
- 출원번호 : NL2024/050347
- 출원인 : TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT;ERASMUS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER ROTTERDAM;
- 특허번호 :
- IPC : G01T-001/29(2006.01);G01T-001/24(2006.01);G01T-001/36(2006.01);