Prof. Yongfeng Yang got his Ph.D from Kyushu University, Japan in 2001. From 2002-2014 he worked at Prof. Simon Cherry’s lab at Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis as postdoctoral fellow and project scientist. He has been a professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2015. His research interests focus on instrumentation and application of positron emission tomography. The research of his lab is currently supported by Chinese National Science Foundation and Shenzhen City. Below is his presentation summary.
Depth of interaction uncertainty of the traditional PET detectors is solely the biggest obstacle for small animal and brain PET scanners to achieve high sensitivity and high spatial resolution simultaneously. In this presentation, first Dr. Yang presented his previous work on developing dual-ended readout depth encoding PET detectors with position sensitive APDs and developing a high resolution dedicated mouse brain PET scanner. Then the current work of his lab on developing MRI compatible small animal and brain PET scanners by using dual-ended readout detectors with SiPMs will be presented.