Design and Performance of Liquid Xenon Detectors for PET

ORAL

Abstract

This work is aimed at developing liquid xenon (LXe) detectors for applications to positron emission tomography (PET). The advantages of LXe for PET compared to currently used methods include improved energy resolution by combining information from measuring the ionization as well as the scintillation light, 3-D sub-mm spatial resolution, and Compton scattering reconstruction. Results obtained for the energy resolution with a small prototype and an analysis of error sources will be presented.

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Authors

  • Astrid Muennich

    • TRIUMF

  • Pierre Amaudruz

  • Douglas Bryman

  • Leonid Kurchaninov

  • Philip Lu

  • Cam Marshall

  • Jean Pierre Martin

  • Fabrice Retiere

  • Aleksey Sher