Speaker
Christian Edwin Ritzer
(ETH Zurich (CH))
Description
The PETITION (PET for InTensive care units and Innovative protON therapy) collaboration recently started to develop two Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems to enable novel clinical applications. The first system (ICU-system) will be a mobile brain PET scanner, for the intensive care unit. The second system (PBT-system) will be employed in proton beam therapy featuring an opening for proton irradiation during image acquisition. A series of Monte-Carlo simulations have been done to obtain performance estimates. We measure a peak sensitivity of 2.66% (1.74%) for the ICU-system (PBT-system). For the spatial resolution we obtain values between 2.2mm and 2.7mm for the central region with both systems, matching well with the expectations.
Primary authors
Christian Edwin Ritzer
(ETH Zurich (CH))
Marina Beguin
(CERN)
Volker Commichau
(ETHZ)
Mrs
Judith Flock
Cristian Alejandro Fuentes Rojas
(CERN)
Antony Lomax
(PSI)
Mrs
Shubhangi Makkar
Mr
Keegan McNamara
Prof.
Mauro Oddo
John Olivier Prior
Prof.
Damien Weber
Dr
Carla Winterhalter
Guenther Dissertori
(ETH Zurich (CH))
