| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/D029457/1 |
| Title: |
Redeployment of redundant medical PET scanners for non-medical applications |
| Principal Investigator: |
Parker, Professor DJ |
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School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Organisation: |
University of Birmingham |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
19 July 2005 |
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18 July 2006 |
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32,000
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful technique for studying the function of the human body by introducing a radioactive tracer and mapping how it spreads through the body, detecting the emitted pairs of back-to-back gamma rays in a PET scanner comprising thousands of small detector elements. PET could also be used to study the internal behaviour of other systems, including engineering equipment or large animals such as horses, but this would require changes to the geometry of the scanners. Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) is a variant of PET in which a single radioactively-labelled tracer particle can be accurately tracked as it moves inside engineering equipment. PEPT has proved extremely valuable for studying flow in laboratory-scale equipment; in order to extend this work to larger rigs, modified PET scanners are again required. A new PET scanner costs around 1M but since several PET centres are currently upgrading their facilities it is currently possible to acquire functioning scanners second-hand at nominal cost. We wish to buy several of these scanners in order to reconfigure them in novel ways.A similar technique can be used to investigate the performance of engineering equipment,
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http://www.bham.ac.uk |