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ST: Fachverband Strahlen- und Medizinphysik
ST 2: Postersession - Medical Physics
ST 2.3: Poster
Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 17:00–18:00, Grotte
Purification of the organo-metallic liquid TMBi for use in a novel PET detector — •Simon-Nis Peters1, Konstantin Bolwin2, Björn Gerke2, Volker Hannen1, Christian Huhmann1, Klaus Schäfers2, and Christian Weinheimer1 — 1Institut für Kern- physik, WWU Münster — 2European Institute for Molecular Imaging, WWU Münster
Recently, a new type of PET detector has been proposed using a heavy organo-metallic liquid - TriMethyl Bismuth (TMBi) - as target material. TMBi is a transparent liquid 82% by weight of Bismuth as the heaviest non-radioactive element. 511 keV photons from annihilation processes are effectively converted to photo-electrons in the material due to the high Z bismuth component. These photo-electrons produce both Cherenkov light and charges in the liquid. While the optical component enables a fast timing, charge readout using a segmented anode can provide an accurate position reconstruction. To be able to drift the charges to the anode a high level of purification of the liquid is required, removing any electro-negative contaminations. Due to the reactive nature of the liquid, purification using getter materials is not an option. In addition only vacuum grade ceramics and stainless steel components can be used for a purification system. The Poster will present the design of a purification bench combining a TMBi distillation column with molecular sieves and a prototype detector cell which will allow to determine the characteristics of charge readout in the liquid. This work is supported by the DFG (Project number: WE 1843/8-1; SCHA 1447/3-1)