Colloquium: Positronium physics and biomedical applications

SD Bass, S Mariazzi, P Moskal, E Stępień - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Positronium is the simplest bound state, built of an electron and a positron. Studies of
positronium in vacuum and its decays in medium tell us about quantum electrodynamics …

Compton imaging for medical applications

H Tashima, T Yamaya - Radiological Physics and Technology, 2022 - Springer
Compton imaging exploits inelastic scattering, known as Compton scattering, using a
Compton camera consisting of a scatterer detector in the front layer and an absorber …

Positronium imaging with the novel multiphoton PET scanner

P Moskal, K Dulski, N Chug, C Curceanu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
In vivo assessment of cancer and precise location of altered tissues at initial stages of
molecular disorders are important diagnostic challenges. Positronium is copiously formed in …

Testing CPT symmetry in ortho-positronium decays with positronium annihilation tomography

P Moskal, A Gajos, M Mohammed, J Chhokar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Charged lepton system symmetry under combined charge, parity, and time-reversal
transformation (CPT) remains scarcely tested. Despite stringent quantum-electrodynamic …

Simulating NEMA characteristics of the modular total-body J-PET scanner—an economic total-body PET from plastic scintillators

P Moskal, P Kowalski, RY Shopa… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of the presented research is estimation of the performance characteristics of
the economic total-body Jagiellonian-PET system (TB-J-PET) constructed from plastic …

Positronium image of the human brain in vivo

P Moskal, J Baran, S Bass, J Choiński, N Chug… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Positronium is abundantly produced within the molecular voids of a patient's body during
positron emission tomography (PET). Its properties dynamically respond to the submolecular …

[HTML][HTML] Experience and new prospects of PET imaging for ion beam therapy monitoring

K Parodi, T Yamaya, P Moskal - Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
Pioneering investigations on the usage of positron-emission-tomography (PET) for the
monitoring of ion beam therapy with light (protons, helium) and heavier (stable and …

Oxygen sensing ability of positronium atom for tumor hypoxia imaging

K Shibuya, H Saito, F Nishikido, M Takahashi… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Positronium (Ps), a hydrogen-like atom consisting of a positron and an electron, is
efficiently formed in the human body during positron emission tomography (PET) …

Positronium as a biomarker of hypoxia

P Moskal, EŁ Stępień - Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, 2022 - degruyter.com
In this review article, we present arguments demonstrating that the advent of high sensitivity
total-body PET systems and the invention of the method of positronium imaging, open …

Positronium lifetime validation measurements using a long-axial field-of-view positron emission tomography scanner

WM Steinberger, L Mercolli, J Breuer, H Sari, S Parzych… - EJNMMI physics, 2024 - Springer
Background Positron emission tomography (PET) traditionally uses coincident annihilation
photons emitted from a positron interacting with an electron to localize cancer within the …