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Fast, High Resolution PET
Detector--Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.,
Dr. Gerald Entine, Principal
Investigator, GEntie@rmdinc.com
Dr. Gerald Entine, Business
Official, GEntie@rmdinc.com
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-03ER83760
Amount:
$100,000
Proton
Emission Technology (PET) is a powerful imaging tool that can provide diagnosis
for symptoms of diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, head trauma, and stroke.
However, the performance of current
clinical PET systems is limited by available detector technology, and improved
PET instrumentation will be needed to exploit the full potential of this
promising technique. This project
will investigate a new detector material for PET with fast response and high
energy resolution. The new detector
not only would significantly reduce scatter and random errors, the main
limitations in three-dimensional PET, but also would make time-of-flight PET a
possibility. Phase I will
demonstrate the feasibility of producing a high resolution, fast detector for
PET. Simulations and extensive
characterization of the detector will be conducted.
Commercial
Applications and Other Benefits as described by awardee:
The detector technology should be very promising for PET and other
medical imaging modalities such as SPECT. It
should also be applicable in nuclear and high energy physics, astronomy,
diffraction, non-destructive studies, safeguards, and bore hole logging.