Conveners
PET and SPECT technologies
- Benlloch José (IFIC, Valencia)
The emergence of new technologies in the domain of nanophotonics, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, etc… open new perspectives for PET scanners with ultimate Time-of-Flight (TOF) performance. An ultimate goal of 10ps has been set in the frame of the 10ps TOFPET challenge: https://the10ps-challenge.org
Achieving this ambitious goal would allow improving the PET effective sensitivity...
Optimization of the timing resolution in the scintillation light readout has been one of the most important challenges in the SiPM field since the beginning of their development. Several sensor parameters contribute to the timing performance achieved in the application. The latest iteration of the NUV-HD SiPM technology developed at FBK feature Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE) in excess of...
The reduction of the Coincidence Time Resolution (CTR) down to a few tens of ps is one of the main challenges of basic ToF-PET research. Reaching these limits with modules that can be easily scalable to large scanners requires an optimization of the scintillator crystals, photodetectors and readout electronics employed. This work is focused on the FastIC, an 8-channel ASIC that was designed...
Identifying the photon origin and track on an event-to-event basis is of utmost importance to understand the underlying nature of light based fast timing detectors and to push the boundaries toward the ambitious goal of 10 ps coincidence time resolution (CTR). The photon history can be manifold: different production mechanism (Cherenkov/Scintillation), different materials in a composite...
