Nuclear medicine provides noninvasive imaging tools to detect a variety of human diseases.
The two major components of these imaging procedures are radiopharmaceuticals and an …

Silicon photomultipliers can be used to infer the depth-of-interaction (DOI) in scintillator
crystals. DOI can help to improve the quality of the positron emission tomography images …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful medical imaging modality used in nuclear
medicine to diagnose and monitor various clinical diseases in patients. It is more sensitive …

Positron emission tomography (PET) plays a fundamental role in medical imaging, with a
wide range of applications covering, among the others, oncology, neurology and cardiology …

Medical imaging instrumentation design and construction is based on radiation sources and
radiation detectors/sensors. This review focuses on the detectors and sensors of medical …

In the wake of recent advancements in scintillator, photodetector, and low-noise fast
electronics technologies, as well as in fast reconstruction software, positron emission …

During the past years, non-neuronal vascular nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs)
increasingly have gained interest in cardiovascular research, as they are known to mediate …

The investigation of neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the functional specificity of
brain regions requires the development of technologies that are well adjusted to in vivo …

Background This study aimed to evaluate the performance of a preclinical PET insert in
three configurations: as a stand-alone unit outside the MRI bore, inside the bore of a …

9.1 Discussion For high-quality PET images, PET detectors require high detection efficiency,
high spatial, energy and timing resolution, and should provide full 3D information about the …