TOPASE-MED: Rethinking PET imaging with semiconductor detectors

This paper presents the main outcomes of the TOPASE-MED project, a feasibility study of a semiconductor-based PET imaging system, using CdTe as detection material. This project has followed three main goals: dimensioning a CdTe-based imager by simulation, developing technological bricks needed to build such a system and demonstrating experimentally the potential of the technology with a small scale mock-up. © 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.