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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Accurate in vivo cancer assessment and early detection of molecular disorders are critical diagnostic challenges.
  • Positronium formation during positron emission tomography (PET) is influenced by molecular environments, suggesting its potential for disease monitoring.
  • Current PET technology cannot acquire positronium images, limiting its diagnostic application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a new method for positronium imaging.
  • To enable simultaneous registration of annihilation and deexcitation photons for enhanced imaging.
  • To demonstrate the feasibility of positronium imaging for disease detection.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel method for simultaneous registration of annihilation and deexcitation photons.
  • Utilized pharmaceuticals labeled with radionuclides for imaging.
  • Applied the method to image a phantom composed of cardiac myxoma and adipose tissue.

Main Results:

  • Successfully demonstrated the first in vivo positronium imaging of a biological phantom.
  • The new method allows for the visualization of molecular spaces where positronium forms.
  • Positronium properties correlate with the molecular environment, offering disease-specific information.

Conclusions:

  • Positronium imaging is a feasible technique with the potential to significantly improve PET diagnostic specificity.
  • This method could provide crucial information about disease progression at the molecular level.
  • Future applications may include early cancer detection and monitoring of molecular disorders.