Radiation detector materials: An overview

BD Milbrath, AJ Peurrung, M Bliss… - Journal of Materials …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Due to events of the past two decades, there has been new and increased usage of
radiation-detection technologies for applications in homeland security, nonproliferation, and …

Prospects and clinical perspectives of total-body PET imaging using plastic scintillators

P Moskal, E Stępień - PET clinics, 2020 - pet.theclinics.com
As modern medicine advances toward personalized treatment of patients, it requires highly
specific and sensitive tests to diagnose disease. The advent of total-body PET (TB-PET) …

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 …

Evolution of PET detectors and event positioning algorithms using monolithic scintillation crystals

A Gonzalez-Montoro, AJ Gonzalez… - … on Radiation and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of monolithic scintillator-based photon detectors in positron emission tomography
(PET) has emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional pixelated array designs …

On light sharing TOF-PET modules with depth of interaction and 157 ps FWHM coincidence time resolution

M Pizzichemi, A Polesel, G Stringhini… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of a light sharing and recirculation mechanism that allows the extraction of
depth of interaction (DOI) are investigated in this paper, with a particular focus on timing. In …

A new method for depth of interaction determination in PET detectors

M Pizzichemi, G Stringhini, T Niknejad… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A new method for obtaining depth of interaction (DOI) information in PET detectors is
presented in this study, based on sharing and redirection of scintillation light among multiple …

Estimating relationship between the time over threshold and energy loss by photons in plastic scintillators used in the J-PET scanner

S Sharma, J Chhokar, C Curceanu, E Czerwiński… - EJNMMI physics, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The time-over-threshold (TOT) technique is being used widely due to
itsimplications in developing the multi-channel readouts, mainly when fast signal processing …

A dual-ended readout detector using a meantime method for SiPM TOF-DOI PET

HG Kang, GB Ko, JT Rhee, KM Kim… - … on Nuclear Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have investigated a dual-ended readout detector based on two silicon photo-multipliers
(SiPMs) using a 30 mm long cerium-doped lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (Lu0. 5Y1. 4Si0 …

Characterization of the energy response of a LYSO+ SiPM detector module for E//B NPA using α and hydrogen ions

Y Luo, L Ma, D Xie, Y Huang, Y Wang, F Fang… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This article presents a novel application of the lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO)
scintillator in a newly constructed neutral particle analyzer with a parallel electric and …

A time efficient optical model for GATE simulation of a LYSO scintillation matrix used in PET applications

DAB Bonifacio, N Belcari, S Moehrs… - … on nuclear science, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A time efficient optical model is proposed for GATE simulation of a LYSO scintillation matrix
coupled to a photomultiplier. The purpose is to avoid the excessively long computation time …