Prof. Ewa Stępień from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University (UJ) in Krakow, together with a Swiss team led by Prof. Kuangyu Shi from the Technical University of Munich, will conduct multi-faceted research on high-throughput PET imaging using multiphoton signals on long-axis PET using physics-enhanced artificial intelligence.

It is one of five Polish-Swiss projects to receive funding in the OPUS24+ LAB competition. 

According to the Jagiellonian University, the project in which Prof. Ewa Stępień will participate has received funding of PLN 3.2 million. It will focus on the case of 68Ga-PSMA PET imaging of prostate cancer. 

The research will result in, among other things, “the development of a multiphoton imaging acquisition protocol on clinical LAFOV PET scanners, the creation of a robust and trusted physics-based deep learning (AI) method for efficient reconstruction and quantification of positronium imaging, and the achievement of the first clinical positronium imaging of prostate cancer”.