Conveners
Medical Applications
- Grigori Feofilov (St. Petersburg State University (RU))
Medical Applications
- Grigori Feofilov (St. Petersburg State University (RU))
Dr
Jorge A. Neves
(LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Lisbon, Portugal)
2/14/13, 2:00 PM
Talk
We present a feasibility study of the ClearPEM technology for simultaneous PET-MR imaging. The basic ClearPEM detector module is composed of 12 LYSO:Ce crystal matrices, each with 4x8 individual crystals (2x2x20mm3) optically coupled on both ends to S8550 hamamatsu APD arrays that are read out by two front-end boards. Each board integrates two low-noise ASICs of 192 channels each for APD...
Benjamin Armand Frisch
(CERN)
2/14/13, 2:25 PM
Talk
Prostate cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer in males. Pancreas cancer, on the other hand, is among the deadliest cancers. Both require advanced imaging techniques for their diagnosis and staging. The endoTOFPET-US collaboration develops a multimodal imaging technique for endoscopic exams. It combines the benefits of high resolution metabolic imaging with Time-Of-Flight...
Dr
Franco Garibaldi
(INFN Roma1)
2/14/13, 2:50 PM
Talk
Prostate Carcinoma, is a heterogeneous disease, asymptomatic to rapidly systemic malignancy. Standard techniques cannot detect early disease. An endorectal PET-TOF MRI probe would solve the problem. The internal probe has to be used in coincidence with external dedicated detectors and/or a standard PET. The performance of the probe dominates, with improvement in spatial resolution and...
Kim-Eigard Hines
(University of Oslo)
2/14/13, 3:15 PM
Talk
COMPET is a pre-clinical MRI compatible PET scanner which decouples sensitivity and resolution by the use of a novel detector design. The detector is built using square 8 × 8 cm layers consisting of 30 LYSO crystals interleaved with 24 Wavelength shifting fibers (WLS). By stacking several layers into a module, the point-of-interaction (POI) can be measured in 3D. Four layers forms a PET ring...
Peter Krizan
(University of Ljubljana)
2/14/13, 4:30 PM
Talk
A time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF PET) prototype apparatus, based on the principles of Cherenkov photon detection, was tested in experiments with a simple phantom. The time resolution obtained with such a system was 116 ps FWHM, with the single detector efficiency of 4.3%. Such excellent time resolution enabled a very fast image reconstruction algorithm to achieve results...
Matteo Morrocchi
(University of Pisa / Infn Pisa)
2/14/13, 4:55 PM
Talk
The 4DM-PET experiment aims to develop an innovative detector module for PET applications. The device is composed of a continuous LYSO scintillator crystal coupled to two SiPM matrices on its top and bottom surfaces. The peculiarity in using a continuous crystal is the ability to reconstruct the Depth of Interaction of the 511 keV photons generated by the annihilation of the positrons emitted...
Carlo Civinini
(Universita e INFN (IT))
2/14/13, 5:20 PM
Talk
Proton Computed Tomography (pCT) is an imaging technique based on the use of proton beams with kinetic energies above 200 MeV to directly measure stopping power (SP) distributions inside the tissue volume. PRIMA (PRoton IMAging) is an italian collaboration working on the development of a pCT scanner based on a tracker and a calorimeter to measure single protons trajectory and residual energy....
Dr
Ronaldo Bellazzini
(INFN-Pisa and PIXIRAD IMAGING COUNTERS srl)
2/14/13, 5:45 PM
Talk
An innovative X-ray imaging sensor with intrinsic digital characteristics is presented. It is based on Chromatic Photon Counting technology. The detector is able to count
individually the incident X-ray photons and to separate them according to their energy (two'color' images per exposure). The energy selection occurs in real time and at radiographic imaging speed (GHz global counting rate)....
