Postdoc PET-SPECT instrumentation for cancer therapy research

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands

Updated: over 1 year ago
Job Type: Temporary
Deadline: 11 Nov 2022

Imaging distributions of radiolabeled molecules using PET and SPECT scaners is key for discovering mechanisms of disease, new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic tracers. The application of radiotracers that combine a predictive biomarker with a therapeutic agent -theranostic tracers– and the demand for multi-tracer imaging are witnessing an impressive growth. The postdoc will be part of a project that aims at developing a novel small animal PET-SPECT scanner that

  • enables improved quantitative tomography for virtually any available gamma, positron or co-emitting tracer molecule (30 keV - 1 MeV energy range),
  • allows quantitative imaging of many new tracer combinations including multiple PET isotopes, and
  • has an order of magnitude higher effective sensitivity for high-energy gamma emitters than current scanners.

To enable such universal molecular nuclear tomography platform the postdoc will explore (1) innovative collimator designs (2) image reconstruction with universal energy-dependent models for high-energy and co-emitting gamma and positron emitters (3) utilization of new detectors.


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