Silicon sensors in Nuclear Medicine: Compton imaging

por Carlos Lacasta (IFIC)

martes 17 may. 2005 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

Radiotracer techniques are a common diagnosis tool in Nuclear Medicine and the development of applications that are able to measure the local extent of the disease, provide improved guided byopsy, staging or identification of aggressive cancers and measurement of early biological effects of therapy are of outstanding importance. In this field of Nuclear Medicine, the development of devices that will help achieving the aforementioned goals has become an important issue and the exploration of alternative routes or finding room for improvement of the existing devices is one of the highest priorities. Our group is investigating a novel technique, Compton imaging, that could considerably improve the current state-of-the-art for tumor imaging. This talk will review the concept of this new technique and how current silicon sensor technologies developed for High Energy Physics applications can be employed to realize a Compton Camera that can improve both the spatial resolution and sensitivity of the current devices.