Gas Electron Multiplying Detectors for medical applications

The present work describes the development of a new detection technology for medical imaging using the method of Single-Photon Emitted Computed Tomography (SPECT) combined with X-rays Computed Tomography (CT). Our ultimate goal is to advance disease detection by imaging quantitatively molecular agents and localizing their distribution in tissues and organs by SPECT simultaneously with the anatomical CT image. To assess the imaging characteristics of the imaging agents developed, we tested and advanced a detection technique first developed for high-energy physics: Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs).