Fast Timing in Medical Imaging

Abstract

We report in this paper on the Fast Timing in Medical Imaging workshop, (Valencia, Jun2 2022). The workshop gathered 104 attendees from all over the world, with representatives from the academic and industrial sectors. During three very dense days, nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, oncologists, immunologists and biologists have debated with physicists, engineers, technologists of different disciplines, as well as with medical imaging industry representatives to devise about the importance of improving the timing performance of a new generation of medical imaging instrumentation, with a special focus on PET scanners toward the ultimate goal of 10 ps coincidence time resolution (CTR), allowing a millimeter 3D spatial resolution on an event-to-event basis by Time-of-Flight (TOF) techniques. This paper summarizes the most up-to-date developments on the roadmap towards the 10ps time of flight challenge based on the contributions to this workshop.