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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
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