Mr
Pierre Etienne Vert
(LPC Clermont and DAPNIA)
12/05/2006, 14:00
S11 Perpectives
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The purpose of this study is to show how innovative concepts of compact, pipelined,
deadtimeless and ”Time Of Flight” capable electronics similar to those developped
for High Energy Physics experiments (LHC and post LHC) could be fairly and easily
transferred to the medical imaging field through clinical Positron Emission
Tomography scanners.
The two overriding weaknesses of PET camera...
Dr
Peter bruyndonckx
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
12/05/2006, 14:15
S11 Perpectives
oral
Monolithic scintillators are an attractive alternative to pixelated detector schemes in the design of high-
sensitivity, high resolution PET systems. The shape of the scintillation light distribution measured by a
position sensitive photo detector contains (x,y,z) information on the interaction point in the crystal. The
absence of inter-crystal optical reflectors significantly increases...
Prof.
Roberto Pani
(INFN Dept Experimental Medicine and Pathology - University of Rome "La Sapienza"-Italy)
12/05/2006, 14:30
S11 Perpectives
oral
Last year many research groups have been attracted from the first samples of LaBr3:Ce
crystals available from St.Gobain. Different applications are under investigation in
particular in the field of medical imaging. PET, SPECT and Compton camera
instrumentation seem to take advantage from the performances of this new
scintillation crystal. In fact, it shows many advantages with respect to...
Prof.
Harris Kagan
(Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University)
12/05/2006, 14:45
S11 Perpectives
oral
The Compton principle of electronic collimation overcomes the resolution-efficiency
tradeoff imposed by mechanical collimators, and therefore Compton-based imagers may
exhibit both high resolution and high efficiency. We have simulated and developed
both Compton SPECT and Compton PET imaging prototypes.
Simulations predict better than 3mm spatial resolution and about 10^-3...
Prof.
Madjid Boutemeur
(Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
12/05/2006, 15:00
S11 Perpectives
oral
It has been demonstrated [1] that PET information can be used successfully for
online monitoring of particle range as well as for dose quantification in both proton
and carbon therapy . Furthermore, it is clear that PET [1] is the only issue today
for an in-situ and non-invasive treatment plan monitoring. However, existent PET
systems are designed either for diagnostics or functional...
Prof.
Manjit Dosanjh
(CERN)
12/05/2006, 15:15
S11 Perpectives
oral
Cancer is a major societal problem and it is the main cause of death between the ages
of 45 to 65 years. In the treatment of cancer, radiotherapy (RT) plays an essential
role.
RT with ions, due to their unique physical and radiobiological properties, offers
several advantages over photons. In particular, they penetrate the patient with
minimal diffusion, they deposit their maximum energy...
