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Novel Approach for Depth-of-Interaction Encoding in PET

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-FG02-08ER85158
Agency Tracking Number: N/A
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: 18 b
Solicitation Number: DE-PS02-07ER07-36
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
44 Hunt Street
Watertown, MA 02472
United States
DUNS: 073804411
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Kanai Shah
 Mr.
 (617) 668-6800
 KShah@RMDInc.com
Business Contact
 Gerald Entine
Title: Dr.
Phone: (617) 668-6800
Email: NMarshall@RMDInc.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Depth-of-Interaction (DOI) encoding is an important requirement in clinical as well as small animal Positron Emission Tomography (PET). At present, almost all commercial PET scanners do not have DOI encoding capability, and, as a result, these scanners exhibit parallax error, which degrades their spatial resolution for events that are further away from the central axis in the radial direction. This project will investigate a new detector design that promises to provide high resolution DOI encoding in a continuous manner with single-ended scintillator readout. The proposed scheme can be adapted to small animal as well as clinical PET scanners. Phase I will demonstrate the feasibility of the new detector configuration and will optimize the detector design. In Phase II, the concept will be implemented by building a PET system with DOI encoding. Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: The detector technology should be very promising for small animal as well as clinical PET applications. It also should be applicable to many other gamma-ray imaging systems for astronomy, non-destructive studies, and nuclear non-proliferation, which require depth-of-interaction information.

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