Molecular brain imaging using positron emission tomography (PET) has evolved into a
vigorous academic field and is progressively gaining importance in the clinical arena …

Molecular imaging using high-resolution single-photon emission computed tomography
(SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) has advanced elegantly and has steadily …

The effective light attenuation length in thin bars of polished YAP: Ce and LYSO: Ce
scintillators with lengths of the order of 10cm has been studied for various wrappings and …

Axial PET is a novel geometrical concept for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), based
on layers of long scintillating crystals axially aligned with the bore axis. The axial coordinate …

Molecular imaging using high-resolution PET instrumentation has a pivotal role in basic and
clinical research. The development of optimized detection geometries combined with high …

The axial arrangement of long scintillation crystals is a promising concept in PET
instrumentation to address the need for optimized resolution and sensitivity. Individual …

During the last two decades, functional brain imaging using positron emission tomography
(PET) has advanced elegantly, and steadily gained importance in the clinical and research …

The measurements presented in this paper are related to the development of a PET camera
based on a 3-D axial geometry with excellent 3-D spatial, timing and energy resolution. The …

We describe a novel method to extract the axial coordinate from a matrix of long axially
oriented crystals, which is based on wavelength shifting (WLS) plastic strips. The method …

We have developed a LaBr 3: Ce scintillator array consisting of 8× 8 pixels with a size of 5.8
mm× 5.8 mm× 15.0 mm, which serves as an absorber of scattered gamma rays with …