The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is the first PET built from plastic scintillators. J-PET prototype consists of 192 detection modules arranged axially in three layers forming a cylindrical diagnostic chamber with the inner diameter of 85 cm and the axial field-of-view of 50 cm. An axial arrangement of long strips of plastic scintillators, their small light attenuation, superior timing properties, and relative ease of the increase of the axial field-of-view opens promising perspectives for the cost effective construction of the whole-body PET scanner, as well as construction of MR and CT compatible PET inserts. Present status of the development of the J-PET tomograph will be presented and discussed.
@article{arxiv.1710.11369,
title = {J-PET: a new technology for the whole-body PET imaging},
author = {S. Niedźwiecki and P. Białas and C. Curceanu and E. Czerwiński and K. Dulski and A. Gajos and B. Głowacz and M. Gorgol and B. C. Hiesmayr and B. Jasińska and Ł. Kapłon and D. Kisielewska-Kamińska and G. Korcyl and P. Kowalski and T. Kozik and N. Krawczyk and W. Krzemień and E. Kubicz and M. Mohammed and M. Pawlik-Niedźwiecka and M. Pałka and L. Raczyński and Z. Rudy and N. G. Sharma and S. Sharma and R. Y. Shopa and M. Silarski and M. Skurzok and A. Wieczorek and W. Wiślicki and B. Zgardzińska and M. Zieliński and P. Moskal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11369},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Presented at the 2nd Jagiellonian Symposium on Fundamental and Applied Subatomic Physics, Krak\'ow, Poland, June 4-9, 2017. To be published in Acta Phys. Pol. B