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https://hdl.handle.net/10316/112650| Title: | An RPC-PET brain scanner demonstrator: first results | Authors: | 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 |
Keywords: | Positron Emission Tomography; Resistive Plate Chamber; Brain; Striatum | Issue Date: | 10-Nov-2022 | Publisher: | Elsevier | Project: | European Union and ANI — Agência Nacional de Inovação, S.A. via the programs PT2020 and COMPETE2020 (project POCI-01-0247-FEDER-039808) | Serial title, monograph or event: | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | Volume: | 1051 | Abstract: | 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/112650 | ISSN: | 01689002 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.nima.2023.168236 | Rights: | openAccess |
| Appears in Collections: | I&D CIBIT - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais FCTUC Física - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais I&D ICNAS - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais LIP - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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