Intraoperative gamma cameras: a review of development in the last decade and future outlook

AL Farnworth, SL Bugby - Journal of Imaging, 2023 - mdpi.com
Portable gamma cameras suitable for intraoperative imaging are in active development and
testing. These cameras utilise a range of collimation, detection, and readout architectures …

Multi-material spectral photon-counting micro-CT with minimum residual decomposition and self-supervised deep denoising

V Di Trapani, L Brombal, F Brun - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Spectral micro-CT imaging with direct-detection energy discriminating photon counting
detectors having small pixel size (< 100× 100 µm^ 2) is mainly hampered by: i) the limited …

[HTML][HTML] Helpfulness of effective atomic number image in forensic dental identification: Photon-counting computed tomography is suitable

T Asahara, S Okada, H Hayashi, T Maeda… - Computers in Biology …, 2025 - Elsevier
The identities of unidentified persons are often confirmed by matching dental treatment
information. Although treatment restorations consisting of artificial materials can be …

PEPI Lab: a flexible compact multi-modal setup for X-ray phase-contrast and spectral imaging

L Brombal, F Arfelli, RH Menk, L Rigon, F Brun - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This paper presents a new flexible compact multi-modal imaging setup referred to as PEPI
(Photon-counting Edge-illumination Phase-contrast imaging) Lab, which is based on the …

Experimental optimization of the energy for breast-CT with synchrotron radiation

P Oliva, V Di Trapani, F Arfelli, L Brombal, S Donato… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Breast Computed Tomography (bCT) is a three-dimensional imaging technique that
is raising interest among radiologists as a viable alternative to mammographic planar …

[HTML][HTML] Material classification using basis material decomposition from spectral X-ray CT

D Jumanazarov, A Alimova, A Abdikarimov… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Spectral X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) exploits advanced photon counting
detectors (PCD) to measure a material's spectrally resolved linear attenuation coefficient …

X-ray differential phase-contrast imaging simulations with Geant4

L Brombal, F Arfelli, F Brun, F Longo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of accurate simulation tools including x-ray phase-contrast effects is of
great use in the design and optimization of x-ray phase-contrast imaging (XPCI) …

Single-shot K-edge subtraction x-ray discrete computed tomography with a polychromatic source and the Pixie-III detector

F Brun, V Di Trapani, J Albers, P Sacco… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
K-edge subtraction (KES) imaging is a technique able to map a specific element such as eg
a contrast agent within the tissues, by exploiting the sharp rise of its absorption coefficient at …

[PDF][PDF] Dual energy X-ray beam ptycho-fluorescence imaging

S Cipiccia, F Brun, V Di Trapani, C Rau… - Journal of Synchrotron …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
X-ray ptychography and X-ray fluorescence are complementary nanoscale imaging
techniques, providing structural and elemental information, respectively. Both methods …

[HTML][HTML] Method for the determination of electron density from multi-energy X-ray CT

D Jumanazarov, A Alimova, SK Ismoilov… - NDT & E …, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a method for estimation of material's electron density parameter (ρ e) using
multi-energy x-ray Computed Tomography (CT). Multi-energy CT uses a photon counting …