AX-PET: from Demonstrator towards a Full-Ring Brain Scanner

• Authors: P. Solevi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Axial PET is a novel PET concept based on axially oriented crystals. The axial orientation of the scintillating elements mitigates the uncertainty in the determination of the depth of interaction and provides a scalable and flexible design than can be adapted to different imaging scenarios. Two Axial PET modules have been fully assembled and characterized at CERN with both point-like and extended sources. The capability of Axial PET to break the trade-off between sensitivity and spatial resolution was successfully demonstrated.

Keywords

EN

87.57.uk; 87.57.nf; 29.40.Mc; 29.40.Wk

Discipline

• 29.40.Mc: Scintillation detectors
• 87.57.nf: Reconstruction
• 87.57.uk: Positron emission tomography (PET)
• 29.40.Wk: Solid-state detectors

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 127
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 1462-1464

Dates

published

2015-05

Contributors

author

P. Solevi

• Instituto de Física Corpuscolar (CSIC/UV), Valencia, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1462