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Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET

The future generation of radiation detectors is more and more demanding on timing performance for a wide range of applications, such as particle identification in nuclear physics and high-energy physics detectors, high-resolution hadronic calorimetry in finely segmented detectors, precise event time...

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Autores principales: Lecoq, Paul, Morel, Christian, Prior, John
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1393/ncc/i2020-20002-y
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2745864
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author Lecoq, Paul
Morel, Christian
Prior, John
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Morel, Christian
Prior, John
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description The future generation of radiation detectors is more and more demanding on timing performance for a wide range of applications, such as particle identification in nuclear physics and high-energy physics detectors, high-resolution hadronic calorimetry in finely segmented detectors, precise event time tagging in high-luminosity accelerators, time-of-flight (TOF) techniques for PET cameras and a number of photonic applications based on single photon detection. There is in particular a consensus for gathering Europe’s multidisciplinary academic and industrial excellence around the ambitious challenge to develop a 10 ps TOF PET scanner (TOFPET). The goal is to reduce the radiation dose (currently 5–25 mSv for whole-body PET/CT), scan time (currently >10 minutes), and costs per patient (currently >1000 e per scan), all by an order of magnitude. To achieve this very ambitious goal it is essential to significantly improve the performance of each component of the detection chain: light production, light transport, photodetection, readout electronics. Speeding up progress in this direction is the goal of the challenge and will have an important impact on the development of a new generation of ionization radiation detectors. It will be shown that the possibility to reach 10 ps time-of-flight resolution at small energies, as required in finely granulated calorimeters and PET scanners, although extremely challenging, is not limited by physical barriers and that a number of disruptive technologies, such as multifunctional heterostructures, combining the high stopping power of well-known scintillators with the ultrafast photon emission resulting from the 1D, 2D or 3D quantum confinement of the excitons in nanocrystals, photonic crystals, photonic fibers, as well as new concepts of 3D digital SiPM structures, pave the way to new radiation detector concepts with unprecedented performance.
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spelling oai-inspirehep.net-18044772021-02-09T22:54:49Zdoi:10.1393/ncc/i2020-20002-yhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2745864engLecoq, PaulMorel, ChristianPrior, JohnCase for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PETDetectors and Experimental TechniquesThe future generation of radiation detectors is more and more demanding on timing performance for a wide range of applications, such as particle identification in nuclear physics and high-energy physics detectors, high-resolution hadronic calorimetry in finely segmented detectors, precise event time tagging in high-luminosity accelerators, time-of-flight (TOF) techniques for PET cameras and a number of photonic applications based on single photon detection. There is in particular a consensus for gathering Europe’s multidisciplinary academic and industrial excellence around the ambitious challenge to develop a 10 ps TOF PET scanner (TOFPET). The goal is to reduce the radiation dose (currently 5–25 mSv for whole-body PET/CT), scan time (currently >10 minutes), and costs per patient (currently >1000 e per scan), all by an order of magnitude. To achieve this very ambitious goal it is essential to significantly improve the performance of each component of the detection chain: light production, light transport, photodetection, readout electronics. Speeding up progress in this direction is the goal of the challenge and will have an important impact on the development of a new generation of ionization radiation detectors. It will be shown that the possibility to reach 10 ps time-of-flight resolution at small energies, as required in finely granulated calorimeters and PET scanners, although extremely challenging, is not limited by physical barriers and that a number of disruptive technologies, such as multifunctional heterostructures, combining the high stopping power of well-known scintillators with the ultrafast photon emission resulting from the 1D, 2D or 3D quantum confinement of the excitons in nanocrystals, photonic crystals, photonic fibers, as well as new concepts of 3D digital SiPM structures, pave the way to new radiation detector concepts with unprecedented performance.oai:inspirehep.net:18044772020
spellingShingle Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Lecoq, Paul
Morel, Christian
Prior, John
Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET
title Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET
title_full Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET
title_fullStr Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET
title_full_unstemmed Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET
title_short Case for setting up a 10ps challenge: A step toward reconstruction-less TOF-PET
title_sort case for setting up a 10ps challenge: a step toward reconstruction-less tof-pet
topic Detectors and Experimental Techniques
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1393/ncc/i2020-20002-y
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