Speaker
Dr
Paola Ferrario
(IFIC)
Description
Liquid xenon has several attractive features, which make it suitable for applications to nuclear medicine, such as high scintillation yield and fast scintillation decay time.
In this talk, I will review the state of the art of the investigations of liquid xenon in medical imaging and I will describe the PETALO (Positron Emission Tof Apparatus with Liquid xenOn) concept, a novel idea, which combines liquid xenon scintillating cells and silicon photomultipliers for the readout. A first Monte Carlo investigation has pointed out that this technology would provide an excellent intrinsic time resolution, which opens the possibility of measuring the Time-Of-Flight with high efficiency. Finally, I will explore the possibility of exploiting both scintillation and Cherenkov light for a high-sensitivity TOF-PET.
Primary author
Dr
Paola Ferrario
(IFIC)
Co-authors
Mr
José María Benlloch-Rodríguez
(IFIC)
Prof.
Juanjo Gomez-Cadenas
(IFIC)
