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Experimental determination of the Dalitz plot for positronium decay using the J-PET detection system
Magdalena Skurzok, Steven D. Bass, Kamila Kasperska +37
We present the first measurements of the Dalitz plot for ortho-positronium annihilation to three photons. Our measurements, accurate to about 3% statistical and 2-3% systematic unc…
First-in-human quantum entanglement imaging
Pawel Moskal, Deepak Kumar, Sushil Sharma +37
Annihilation photons are quantum-entangled in polarization, a phenomenon that has not been exploited in medical diagnostics so far. We present the first in vivo imaging of the degr…
First ex-vivo positronium imaging of tissues with modular J-PET scanner using Sc radionuclide
Karol Kubat, Manish Das, Sushil Sharma +41
This study presents the first ex-vivo positronium imaging of human tissues using the modular J-PET scanner with the Sc radionuclide. The Sc isotope was produced via t…
Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs
Szymon Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +39
Background: After its first ex-vivo and in-vivo demonstration, Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) has received considerable interest as a potential new diagnostic biomarker. High s…
Endorsing Titanium-Scandium Radionuclide Generator for PET and Positronium Imaging
Paweł Moskal, Aleksander Khreptak, Jarosław Choiński +7
The development of PET and positronium imaging techniques is strictly related to the availability of suitable radionuclides and robust radiochemistry platforms. Among the emerging…
First Positronium Lifetime Imaging using Mn and Co with a plastic-based PET scanner
Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +45
Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) extends positron emission tomography by using the lifetime of positronium atoms as a probe of tissue molecular architecture. In this work, we rep…
First Positronium Lifetime Imaging with Scandium-44 on a Long Axial Field-of-view PET/CT
Lorenzo Mercolli, William M. Steinberger, Pascal V. Grundler +12
Purpose: 44Sc has been successfully produced, synthesized, labeled and first-in-human studies were conducted some years ago. The decay properties of 44Sc, together with being close…
First positronium imaging using Sc with the J-PET scanner: a case study on the NEMA-Image Quality phantom
Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Aleksander Bilewicz +41
Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI), an emerging extension of conventional positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, offers a novel window for probing the submolecular properties…
Positronium Imaging: History, Current Status, and Future Perspectives
Paweł Moskal, Aleksander Bilewicz, Manish Das +11
Positronium imaging was recently proposed to image the properties of positronium atoms in the patient body. Positronium properties depend on the size of intramolecular voids and ox…
Positronium Lifetime Imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra using 124I
Lorenzo Mercolli, William M. Steinberger, Narendra Rathod +7
Purpose: Measuring the ortho-positronium (oPs) lifetime in human tissue bears the potential of adding clinically relevant information about the tissue microenvironment to conventio…
Comparative studies of plastic scintillator strips with high technical attenuation length for the total-body J-PET scanner
L. Kaplon, J. Baran, N. Chug +31
Plastic scintillator strips are considered as one of the promising solutions for the cost-effective construction of total-body positron emission tomography, (PET) system. The purpo…
Discrete symmetries tested at 10 precision using linear polarization of photons from positronium annihilations
Paweł Moskal, Eryk Czerwiński, Juhi Raj +38
Discrete symmetries play an important role in particle physics with violation of CP connected to the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. We report the most precise test of…
Comparative studies of the sensitivities of sparse and full geometries of Total-Body PET scanners built from crystals and plastic scintillators
Meysam Dadgar, Szymon Parzych, Jakub Baran +28
Background: Total-Body imaging offers high sensitivity, single-bed position, and low dose, but high construction costs limit worldwide utilization. This study compares existing and…
Feasibility of the J-PET to monitor range of therapeutic proton beams
Jakub Baran, Damian Borys, Karol Brzeziński +40
Objective: The aim of this work is to investigate the feasibility of the Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomography (J-PET) scanner for intra-treatment proton beam range monitoring.…
Positronium Physics and Biomedical Applications
Steven D. Bass, Sebastiano Mariazzi, Pawel Moskal +1
Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about Quantum Electrodynamics, QED,…
Realistic Total-Body J-PET Geometry Optimization -- Monte Carlo Study
Jakub Baran, Wojciech Krzemien, Lech Raczyński +31
Total-Body PET is one of the most promising medical diagnostics modalities. The high sensitivity provided by Total-Body technology can be advantageous for novel tomography methods…
The SIDDHARTA-2 calibration method for high precision kaonic atoms X-ray spectroscopy measurements
F Sgaramella, M Miliucci, M Bazzi +29
The SIDDHARTA-2 experiment at the DANE collider aims to perform the first kaonic deuterium X-ray transitions to the fundamental level measurement, with a systematic error at the…
Kaonic Atoms at the DANE Collider with the SIDDHARTA-2 Experiment
F Napolitano, F Sgaramella, M Bazzi +29
Kaonic atoms are a unique tool to explore quantum chromodynamics in the strangeness sector at low energy, with implications reaching neutron stars and dark matter. Precision X-ray…
Positronium imaging with the novel multiphoton PET scanner
Paweł Moskal, Kamil Dulski, Neha Chug +33
In vivo assessment of cancer and precise location of altered tissues at initial stages of molecular disorders are important diagnostic challenges. Positronium is copiously formed i…
Testing CPT symmetry in ortho-positronium decays with positronium annihilation tomography
Paweł Moskal, Aleksander Gajos, Muhsin Mohammed +35
Charged lepton system symmetry under combined charge, parity, and time-reversal transformation (CPT) remains scarcely tested. Despite stringent quantum-electrodynamic limits, discr…
Optimisation of the event-based TOF filtered back-projection for online imaging in total-body J-PET
R. Y. Shopa, K. Klimaszewski, P. Kopka +24
We perform a parametric study of the newly developed time-of-flight (TOF) image reconstruction algorithm, proposed for the real-time imaging in total-body Jagiellonian PET (J-PET)…
Simulating NEMA characteristics of the modular total-body J-PET scanner -- an economic total-body PET from plastic scintillators
Paweł Moskal, Paweł Kowalski, Roman Shopa +26
The purpose of the presented research is estimation of the performance characteristics of the economic Total-Body Jagiellonian-PET system (TB-J-PET) constructed from plastic scinti…
Investigations on physical and biological range uncertainties in Krakow proton beam therapy centre
Antoni Rucinski, Jakub Baran, Giuseppe Battistoni +15
Physical and biological range uncertainties limit the clinical potential of Proton Beam Therapy (PBT). In this proceedings, we report on two research projects, which we are conduct…
Simulation studies of annihilation-photon's polarisation via Compton scattering with the J-PET tomograph
N. Krawczyk, B. C. Hiesmayr, C. Curceanu +31
J-PET is the first positron-emission tomograph (PET) constructed from plastic scintillators. It was optimized for the detection of photons from electron-positron annihilation. Such…