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PETALO SIGNED

A positron emission tomography apparatus based on liquid xenon with time of flight applications

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Project "PETALO" data sheet

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Coordinator	FUNDACION DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER Organization address address: PASEO MANUEL LARDIZABAL 4 city: DONOSTIA SAN SEBASTIAN postcode: 20018 website: http://dipc.ehu.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Spain [ES]
Total cost	1˙500˙000 €
EC max contribution	1˙500˙000 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2017-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-07-01 to 2023-06-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FUNDACION DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER FUNDACION DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER Organization address address: PASEO MANUEL LARDIZABAL 4 city: DONOSTIA SAN SEBASTIAN postcode: 20018 website: http://dipc.ehu.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (DONOSTIA SAN SEBASTIAN)	coordinator	968˙893.00
2	UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA Organization address address: AVENIDA BLASCO IBANEZ 13 city: VALENCIA postcode: 46010 website: www.uv.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (VALENCIA)	participant	306˙250.00
3	AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Organization address address: CALLE SERRANO 117 city: MADRID postcode: 28006 website: http://www.csic.es contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (MADRID)	participant	224˙856.00

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Project objective

This project presents a new technology for detectors used in positron emission tomography (PET), based on liquid xenon instead of current scintillator crystals. The basic element is a liquid xenon scintillating cell, with its size optimized to maximize the number of gammas that interact in the cell. Silicon photomultipliers read out by low power, low noise customized integrated circuits for time of flight applications will be used as sensors. Xenon is a noble gas which scintillates as response to ionizing radiation. Scintillation is very fast and intense, which results in the possibility of building a PET of good energy and spatial resolution and excellent time resolution. This, in turn, makes possible the measurement of the time-of-flight (TOF), which increases the sensitivity of the detector. Recently, the PI has published a Monte Carlo study of the coincidence resolving time that can be achieved by the PETALO technology, obtaining the promising result of less than 100 ps FWHM, which would be a break-through in the PET scanner field. The low cost of liquid xenon compared to conventional scintillating crystals opens two possible applications: one one hand, a full body PET reducing the cost and with an already better performance than the current technology; on the other hand, a smaller brain scanner, optimized to maximize the improvement in the performance with TOF measurements. This project will demonstrate the technological and commercial feasibility of the proposed technology. For this purpose, first a set of prototypes with two cells will be built to evaluate the resulting performance of the PETALO technology using different kinds of photosensors (UV light sensitive SiPMs versus conventional ones coated with a wavelength shifter). In a second phase, a full ring of the dimensions of a brain scanner will be built, using the technology that has performed better according to the results of this first phase.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	C. Romo-Luque PETALO: Time-of-Flight PET with liquid xenon published pages: 162397, ISSN: 0168-9002, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2019.162397	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment	2020-03-18

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