Identification number: LZP-2022/1-0611
Type: Latvian Council of Science Fundamental and Applied Research project
Duration: 01.01.2023. - 31.12.2025.
Project Leader: Dr. Vladimirs Pankratovs, Institute of Solid State Physics University of Latvia (ISSP UL)
Total funding: 299 997 EUR
Project summary:
The project will engage in groundbreaking scintillator research to significantly improve the timing performance of X-ray and gamma detection beyond the current 100 ps state-of-the-art toward the 10 ps level. This unprecedented timing will lead to breakthroughs in medical diagnosis, e.g. time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET), TOF photon counting computed tomography (CT) which play a crucial role in identification and treatment of diseases like cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. The main research goal is to develop new concepts and technical roadmaps to improve the extremely promising cross-luminescence in inorganic scintillators for ultrafast and highly sensitive gamma and X-ray TOF detectors. Research efforts will be dedicated to light production of cross-luminescence via optimization of scintillator synthesis and theoretical modeling, deep-UV light transport and detection.