Garchinger Maier-Leibnitz-Kolloquium: Gamma-Ray Detectors for Nuclear Medicine: from Multimodal Imaging to Particle Therapy Monitoring

by Prof. Marco Carminati (Politecnico di Milano)

Thursday 30 Jan 2025, 16:15 → 17:15 Europe/Berlin

Lecture Hall, ground floor (west) (LMU building, Am Coulombwall 1, campus Garching)

Scintillator-based detectors of gamma rays are very versatile instruments for both spectroscopic and imaging applications. After reviewing the basic working principle of SiPM-based detectors, their applications in medicine will be presented. Three main challenges characterizing the frontiers of this technology will be briefly discussed: (i) multi-modality imaging  combining anatomic (CT, MRI) with functional imaging techniques (PET, SPECT), (ii) increase of field of view, for total body imaging, and migration of embedded machine learning towards the sensors front-end, (iii) high-rate, high-energy detection of gamma rays in particle therapy, especially in prompt gamma imaging for ranging in Hadrontherapy and dose monitoring in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy.

Hybrid access via ZOOM:
https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/98457332925?pwd=TWc3V1JkSHpyOTBPQVlMelhuNnZ1dz09
Meeting ID: 984 5733 2925
Passcode: 979953

kolloquium-30-01-25.pdf