PET Mammography Project

The PET Mammography Project aims at the development of PET Technology (Positron Emission Tomography) applied to the early detection of breast cancer.

Attending to the high incidence of breast cancer and the relative inadequacy of traditional means through X-rays, specific techniques and equipments are being developed in order to achieve greater results.

The proposed PET equipment – in this partnership with Tagusparque – explores a new technology for the detection of photons developed in CERN, based on LuAP crystals, and integrates a pioneering electronic system for data acquisition.
The combination of those two factors will allow for a significant improvement on the quality of PET images which will hopefully be translated into a spatial resolution of about 1mm as well as improve the signal-noise relation when comparing to the actual BGO crystal-based equipments.

Partners: Tagusparque, LIP, Serviço de Medicina Nuclear do Hospital Garcia da Horta, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, Instituto de Novas Tecnologias and Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão Industrial.

Financing: POSI (Adl)