A compact and lightweight small animal PET with uniform high-resolution for onboard PET/CT image-guided preclinical radiation oncology research

X Cheng, K Hu, D Yang, Y Shao - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: In contrast to clinical radiation therapy (RT) that ubiquitously uses PET/CT image
to accurately guide RT, all current commercial animal irradiators can only provide CT image …

Integrated small animal PET/CT/RT with onboard PET/CT image guidance for preclinical radiation oncology research

X Cheng, D Yang, D Saha, X Sun, Y Shao - Tomography, 2023 - mdpi.com
We have integrated a compact and lightweight PET with an existing CT image-guided small
animal irradiator to enable practical onboard PET/CT image-guided preclinical radiation …

Investigation of intra-fractionated range guided adaptive proton therapy:(Part I) on-line PET imaging and range measurement

D Yang, XR Zhu, M Chen, L Ma, X Cheng… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: Develop a prototype on-line PET scanner and evaluate its capability of on-line
imaging and intra-fractionated proton-induced radioactivity range measurement. Approach …

A compact and highly integrated 128-channel FPGA-based readout electronics for nuclear imaging application

B Wang, X Sun, Y Li, C Li, Y Du, K Hu - Nuclear Instruments and Methods …, 2024 - Elsevier
As silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology develops, its possible applications are being
growingly expanded. However, the current technical obstacle is the signal readout from …

Truly Scalable Real-time Coincidence Processor based on Serial and Parallel Hybrid Architecture

M Cui, Z Zhao, H Qu, Q Huang - 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many PET systems use coincidence processors based on a serial architecture for
coincidence detection, but this single-threaded coincidence detection has high latency and …