The use of monolithic scintillator-based photon detectors in positron emission tomography
(PET) has emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional pixelated array designs …

Improving sensitivity and spatial resolution in small animal positron emission tomography
imaging instrumentation constitutes one of the main goals of nuclear imaging research …

The main aim of this work is to provide a method to retrieve the intrinsic spatial resolution of
a gamma-ray detector block based on monolithic crystals within an assembled scanner. This …

Molecular imaging systems, such as positron emission tomography (PET), use detectors
providing energy and a 3-D interaction position of a gamma ray within a scintillation block …

We present the first results of the MINDVIEW project. An innovative imaging system for the
human brain examination, allowing simultaneous acquisition of PET/MRI images, has been …

Readout signal multiplexing is a commonly used method to reduce the electronics cost in
positron emission tomography (PET) systems, and the calculation of the scintillation …

Objective. Standard signal processing approaches for scintillation detectors in positron
emission tomography (PET) derive accurate estimates for 511 keV photon time of interaction …

In the past years, the gamma-ray detector designs based on the monolithic crystals have
demonstrated to be excellent candidates for the design of high-performance PET systems …

Currently, the prevailing high-resolution Positron Emission Tomography (PET) detector
architecture consists of pixelated scintillating crystals coupled to a photosensitive layer, such …

Although the technological advances in hardware of gamma camera lead to an obvious
increase of detector performance, the final reconstructed image is still strongly restricted by …