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Novel Scintillator for PET Imaging
Title: Dr.
Phone: (617) 668-6808
Email: msquillante@rmdinc.com
Title: Dr.
Phone: (617) 668-6800
Email: gentine@rmdinc.com
75530-Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful imaging tool that can provide diagnosis for symptoms of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, head trauma and stroke. However, the performance of current clinical PET systems is limited by available detector technology, and there is an urgent need for improvement in PET instrumentation, in order to exploit the full potential of this promising technique. This project will develop a new detector material for PET, with fast response and high luminosity, leading to a detector with high energy and timing resolution. Other benefits include significantly reduced scatter and randoms, the main limitations in three-dimensional PET, and the possibility of time-of-flight PET. Phase I will demonstrate the feasibility of producing a high resolution, fast detector for PET. Extensive characterization of the detector is also planned. Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: The detector technology should be very promising for PET and other medical imaging modalities such as CT. It should also be applicable in nuclear and high energy physics, astronomy, diffraction, non-destructive studies, safeguards, and bore hole logging.
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