Sub-millimetre DOI detector based on monolithic LYSO and digital SiPM for a dedicated small-animal PET system

R Marcinkowski, P Mollet, R Van Holen… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The mouse model is widely used in a vast range of biomedical and preclinical studies.
Thanks to the ability to detect and quantify biological processes at the molecular level in …

A 32 mm× 32 mm× 22 mm monolithic LYSO: Ce detector with dual-sided digital photon counter readout for ultrahigh-performance TOF-PET and TOF-PET/MRI

G Borghi, BJ Peet, V Tabacchini… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
New applications for positron emission tomography (PET) and combined PET/magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) are currently emerging, for example in the fields of neurological …

Towards monolithic scintillator based TOF-PET systems: practical methods for detector calibration and operation

G Borghi, V Tabacchini… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Gamma-ray detectors based on thick monolithic scintillator crystals can achieve spatial
resolutions< 2 mm full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) and coincidence resolving times …

Experimental Validation of an Efficient Fan-Beam Calibration Procedure for -Nearest Neighbor Position Estimation in Monolithic Scintillator Detectors

G Borghi, V Tabacchini, S Seifert… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monolithic scintillator detectors can achieve excellent spatial resolution and coincidence
resolving time. However, their practical use for positron emission tomography (PET) and …

Evaluation of event position reconstruction in monolithic crystals that are optically coupled

M Morrocchi, WCJ Hunter, A Del Guerra… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
A PET detector featuring a pseudo-monolithic crystal is being developed as a more cost-
effective alternative to a full monolithic crystal PET detector. This work evaluates different …

A High-Speed Demodulation Technology of Fiber Optic Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensor Based on Coarse Spectrum

P Zhang, Y Wang, Y Chen, X Lei, Y Qi, J Feng, X Liu - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
A fast real-time demodulation method based on the coarsely sampled spectrum is proposed
for transient signals of fiber optic extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers (EFPI) sensors. The …

Maximum likelihood positioning algorithm for high‐resolution PET scanners

N Gross‐Weege, D Schug, P Hallen… - Medical Physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: In high‐resolution positron emission tomography (PET), lightsharing elements are
incorporated into typical detector stacks to read out scintillator arrays in which one scintillator …

A method to achieve spatial linearity and uniform resolution at the edges of monolithic scintillation crystal detectors

R Vinke, CS Levin - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We have performed Monte Carlo simulations of the scintillation light transport
between adjacent monolithic LYSO crystals that are optically coupled together using …

Depth of interaction determination in monolithic scintillator with double side SiPM readout

M Morrocchi, G Ambrosi, MG Bisogni, F Bosi, M Boretto… - EJNMMI physics, 2017 - Springer
Background Monolithic scintillators read out by arrays of photodetectors represent a
promising solution to obtain high spatial resolution and the depth of interaction (DOI) of the …

Self-organizing map neural network-based nearest neighbor position estimation scheme for continuous crystal PET detectors

Y Wang, D Li, X Lu, X Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous crystal-based positron emission tomography (PET) detectors could be an ideal
alternative for current high-resolution pixelated PET detectors if the issues of high …