RPC-PET: status and perspectives

Authors

  • M. Couceiro LIP, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas; ISEC, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
  • A. Blanco LIP, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • Nuno C. Ferreira IBILI, Instituto Biomédico de Investigação de Luz e Imagem, Faculty of Medicine
  • R. Ferreira Marques LIP, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas; Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra
  • P. Fonte LIP, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas; ISEC, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
  • L. Lopes LIP, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas

Keywords:

RPC-PET

Abstract

The status of the RPC-PET technology for small animals is briefly reviewed and its sensitivity performance for human PET studied through Monte-Carlo simulations. The cost-effectiveness of these detectors and their very good timing characteristics open the possibility to build affordable TOF-PET systems with very large fields of view. Simulations suggest that the sensitivity of such systems for human wholebody screening, under reasonable assumptions, may exceed the present crystal based PET technology by a factor up to 20.

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Published

2007-01-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 7 (2007)

Section

Invited Communications