Modelling the transport of optical photons in scintillation detectors for diagnostic and radiotherapy imaging

E Roncali, MA Mosleh-Shirazi… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Computational modelling of radiation transport can enhance the understanding of the
relative importance of individual processes involved in imaging systems. Modelling is a …

Simulating silicon photomultiplier response to scintillation light

AK Jha, HT Van Dam, MA Kupinski… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The response of a Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) to optical signals is affected by many
factors including photon-detection efficiency, recovery time, gain, optical crosstalk …

Deep residual-convolutional neural networks for event positioning in a monolithic annular PET scanner

G Jaliparthi, PF Martone, AV Stolin… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
PET scanners based on monolithic pieces of scintillator can potentially produce superior
performance characteristics (high spatial resolution and detection sensitivity, for example) …

[HTML][HTML] Monte-Carlo simulations and image reconstruction for novel imaging scenarios in emission tomography

JE Gillam, M Rafecas - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Emission imaging incorporates both the development of dedicated devices for data
acquisition as well as algorithms for recovering images from that data. Emission tomography …

Light-sharing interface for dMiCE detectors using sub-surface laser engraving

WCJ Hunter, RS Miyaoka, L MacDonald… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have previously reported on dMiCE, a method of resolving depth or interaction (DOI) in a
pair of discrete crystals by encoding light sharing properties as a function of depth in the …

Voxelized ray-tracing simulation dedicated to multi-pinhole molecular breast tomosynthesis

B Wang, J Van Roosmalen, L Piët… - Biomedical Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate gamma photon transport simulations of emission tomography systems are
important to optimise system geometries and for iterative image reconstruction. Monte Carlo …

Towards continuous-to-continuous 3D imaging in the real world

L Caucci, Z Liu, AK Jha, H Han… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Imaging systems are often modeled as continuous-to-discrete mappings that map the object
(ie a function of continuous variables such as space, time, energy, wavelength, etc) to a finite …

[图书][B] Retrieving information from scattered photons in medical imaging

AK Jha - 2013 - search.proquest.com
In many medical imaging modalities, as photons travel from the emission source to the
detector, they are scattered by the biological tissue. Often this scatter is viewed as a …

Multiple-hit parameter estimation in monolithic detectors

WCJ Hunter, HH Barrett, TK Lewellen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We examine a maximum-a-posteriori method for estimating the primary interaction position
of gamma rays with multiple interaction sites (hits) in a monolithic detector. In assessing the …

Design of a time-of-flight PET imaging probe

RS Miyaoka, X Li, WCJ Hunter, E Yuan… - 2011 IEEE Nuclear …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There have recently been a number of research groups investigating the use of high
resolution detector inserts within the imaging field of view to provide improved spatial …