NIRS NEWS No.95, OCT 2004

Young Investigator Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting in 2004

Taiga Yamaya

During a close teamwork amoung national investigators, academic professors and commercial engineers in developing the next generation PET scanner, Dr. Taiga Yamaya recieved "Computer and Instrumentation Young Investigator Award" from the Society of Nuclear Medicine in the Annual Meeting 2004.

The presentation entitled "A First Performance Evaluation of A Novel Brain DOI-PET Scanner 'jPET-D4'" proposes a quicker and more accurate reconstruction method for multi-layer DOI-PET detectors. The DOI detectors increase the quantity of the information; a better physical modeling for the DOI detectors increases the quality of the information, too.

Fig: Spacial resolution of a jPET-D4 detector.

In 2005, the prototype of the next generation brain PET scanner, namely jPET-D4, will be completed! Recently, there are several groups investigating DOI detectors in the world. We would like to promote the jPET-D4 aiming for medical uses.