Compton Camera Based on Solid-State Detectors for Medical Imaging
by
Yonatan Calderon
(IFAE)
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Europe/Madrid
Seminar (IFAE)
Seminar
IFAE
Description
The Voxel Imaging PET (VIP) is an ambitious project financed by the European Research Council with the aim to prove the concept of using highly pixelated CdTe photo-detectors for positron emission tomography (PET) applications. This is a promising idea to overcome the limitations of the current state-of-the-art technology based on scintillating crystals and has the potential to revolutionize the PET technique and the nuclear medicine in general.
The Compton camera is one of the medical imaging scanners explored within the VIP project. Compton imaging has the potential to overcome the limitations of current gamma cameras found in hospitals. Thanks to the VIP detector technology this concept is closest to be realized than never before.