Author(s):
Fonte, Paulo ; Lopes, Luís ; Alves, Rui ; Carolino, Nuno ; Crespo, Paulo ; Couceiro, Miguel ; Cunha, Orlando ; Dias, Nuno ; Ferreira, Nuno C. ; Fetal, Susete ; Lopes, Ana L. ; Michel, Jan ; Moreira, Jorge ; Pereira, Américo ; Saraiva, João ; Silva, Carlos ; Silva, Magda ; Traxler, Michael ; Abrunhosa, Antero ; Blanco, Alberto ; Castelo-Branco, Miguel ; Pimenta, Mário
Date: 2022
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/112650
Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
Subject(s): Positron Emission Tomography; Resistive Plate Chamber; Brain; Striatum
Description
We present first results from a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner demonstrator based on Resistive Plate Chambers and specialized for brain imaging. The device features a 30 cm wide cubic field-of-view and each detector comprises 40 gas gaps with 3D location of the interaction point of the photon. Besides other imagery, we show that the reconstructed image resolution, as evaluated by a hot-rod phantom, is sub-millimetric, which is beyond the state-of-the-art of the standard PET technology for this application.
European Union and ANI — Agência Nacional de Inovação, S.A. via the programs PT2020 and COMPETE2020 (project POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039808)
