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Positron Emission Tomography With Resistive Plate Chamber Detectorsc - An Unlikely Approach

Name: Positron Emission Tomography With Resistive Plate Chamber Detectorsc - An Unlikely Approach
Start: 2013-12-18T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2013-12-18T15:00:00+00:00
Location: LIP Coimbra / Departamento de Física

by Miguel Couceiro (LIP)

Wednesday 18 Dec 2013, 14:00 → 15:00 UTC

Sala de Conferências (LIP Coimbra / Departamento de Física)

Sala de Conferências

LIP Coimbra / Departamento de Física

Universidade de Coimbra

Description

The aim of the present work was to study the feasibility of a full-body length PET scanner based on RPC detectors with a time resolution of 90 ps B for Single events and a coincidence time resolution of 300 ps Full With at Half Maximum (FWHM), by means of simulations performed in GEANT4 accounting for the detailed geometry of the foreseen RPC TOF-PET scanner, depicted in the figure below (along with a scheme of currently available commercial PET scanners), by assessing the expected performance of the RPC TOF-PET scanner by means of the NEMA NU2 standards for performance measurements of PET scanners.