event-date:
26.03.2024

Title:
"Development of next generation of brain-PET (BRAIN PET EXPLORER)"

We invite you to the seminar on March 26, 2024; place: B-2-50, speaker: Prof. Andrzej Krol (Department of Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA).

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Announcement about the seminar

Abstract

Brain-PET has the potential to play an important role in the early diagnosis, clinical workup and research on brain diseases and mental illnesses including Alzheimer’s, providing that quantitative imaging performance of brain-PET could be improved. For this purpose, we are developing advanced detector modules, readout electronics and associated algorithms, leveraging in particular recent progress in time-of-flight (TOF) detector technologies. These modules will lay the foundation for a follow-on project to develop an ultra-high-performance dedicated whole-brain TOF-PET camera (BRAIN PET EXPLORER) for research and clinical work. This device will overcome the current technology shortcomings by providing substantial gain in effective sensitivity and much higher spatial resolution imaging over the current most advanced brain-PET systems (e.g., NeuroEXPLORER). The crucial factors for improved performance of TOF-PET are better coincidence time resolution (CTR), better localization of the gamma-ray detection events, and higher gamma-ray detection efficiency.