MEDAMI 2026 Valencia

Session

Nuclear Medicine Deployment in LMICs: Enabling Technologies

16 May 2026, 11:10

BIOHUB VLC

Conveners

Nuclear Medicine Deployment in LMICs: Enabling Technologies: Session 5

• Roger lecomte

Nuclear Medicine Deployment in LMICs: Enabling Technologies: Session 8

• Marta Freire

12. Low-Cost BGO PET System with DOI Measurement for Small-Animal Imaging

Mr Xin Yu (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)

16/05/2026, 11:10

Background: Bismuth germanate (BGO) crystals offer low cost, high density, excellent 511 keV photon stopping power and ultra-low intrinsic background, making them ideal for high-sensitivity positron emission tomography (PET) systems, especially for expanding the accessibility of molecular imaging in resource-limited settings, in which time resolution is not a critical requirement, such as...

15. Jagiellonian PET: Democratizing access to positron emission tomography with low-cost, modular, lightweight, and portable PET scanners based on plastic scintillators

Prof. Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

16/05/2026, 11:30

Pawel Moskal$^{1,2}$, Ewa Stępień$^{1,2}$
1 Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Poland,
2 Center for Theranostics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has an unparalleled impact on the day-to-day practice of personalized medicine. Yet, PET scanners are extremely expensive, and only a small fraction of the world population, living in the...

25. Design of Walk-Through PET-CT aiming for minimal motion and high throughput

Stefaan Vandenberghe

16/05/2026, 11:50

The Walk-Through (WT) PET-CT system is designed to significantly improve patient throughput, comfort, and cost-efficiency in clinical environments. Conventional tomographic imaging systems such as PET and CT scanners are limited by large physical footprints and inefficiencies in patient handling, which have become the primary bottleneck for throughput despite advances in acquisition speed. The...

28. Multiplexed SiPM Readout and Real-Time FPGA Processing for Pixelated BGO PET Detectors

Prof. Nicola Belcari (Department of Physics, University of Pisa)

16/05/2026, 12:10

We present a modular FPGA-based data acquisition and real-time processing architecture for SiPM-based PET detectors, developed in the context of compact, low-cost PET imaging. The system combines a multiplexed readout of a SiPM array with free-running high-speed ADCs and on-chip FPGA processing to extract event energy, timestamp, and interaction position in real time. The approach emphasizes...

36. Compton cameras for medical imaging

Gabriela Llosá (IFIC, CSIC-UV)

17/05/2026, 08:30

Compton cameras are systems that can image photons in a higher energy range than gamma cameras. While they are not intended to replace PET, which can achieve high resolution and sensitivity if this modality is available, or gamma cameras, which are cost effective and have good performance at photon energies below 300 keV, Compton cameras can be advantageous for obtaining good image quality...

39. From ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET to ⁹⁹ᵐTc-PSMA SPECT: Learning Cross-Modality Harmonization for Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine.

Alejandro López Montes

17/05/2026, 08:50

Background:
While ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET is the reference standard for prostate cancer imaging, its availability remains limited in many regions. In contrast, ⁹⁹ᵐTc-PSMA SPECT is more accessible but suffers from lower spatial resolution, higher noise, and inconsistent quantification. These differences hinder direct comparison across modalities and restrict the integration of SPECT data into...

2. Lithium Neutron Cancer Therapy: A Paradigm Shift Beyond Boron-Based Therapy

Gil Gonçalves

17/05/2026, 09:10

Gil Gonçalves1,2

1Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal;
2Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, particularly in aggressive and therapy-resistant tumors, underscoring the urgent need for...