[HTML][HTML] Understanding and simulating SiPMs

F Acerbi, S Gundacker - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2019 - Elsevier
The silicon-photomultiplier (SiPM) is becoming the device of choice for different applications,
for example in fast timing like in time of flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) and …

Physics and technology of time-of-flight PET detectors

DR Schaart - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The imaging performance of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems has
evolved impressively during the last∼ 15 years. A main driver of these improvements has …

Pushing the limits in time-of-flight PET imaging

P Lecoq - IEEE Transactions on radiation and plasma medical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is an increasing demand for high sensitivity multiparametric medical imaging
approaches. High precision time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOFPET) scanners …

High-frequency SiPM readout advances measured coincidence time resolution limits in TOF-PET

S Gundacker, RM Turtos, E Auffray… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Scintillator based radiation detectors readout by SiPMs successively break records in their
reached time resolution. Nevertheless, new challenges in time of flight positron emission …

Bright and fast scintillation of organolead perovskite MAPbBr 3 at low temperatures

VB Mykhaylyk, H Kraus, M Saliba - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the excellent scintillation properties of MAPbBr3, an organic–inorganic trihalide
perovskite (OTP). The characteristic scintillation time constants were determined using …

Measurement of intrinsic rise times for various L (Y) SO and LuAG scintillators with a general study of prompt photons to achieve 10 ps in TOF-PET

S Gundacker, E Auffray, K Pauwels… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The coincidence time resolution (CTR) of scintillator based detectors commonly used in
positron emission tomography is well known to be dependent on the scintillation decay time …

Time resolution of the plastic scintillator strips with matrix photomultiplier readout for J-PET tomograph

P Moskal, O Rundel, D Alfs, T Bednarski… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent tests of a single module of the Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomography system (J-
PET) consisting of 30 cm long plastic scintillator strips have proven its applicability for the …

A Fully Digital 816 SiPM Array for PET Applications With Per-Pixel TDCs and Real-Time Energy Output

LHC Braga, L Gasparini, L Grant… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An 8× 16 pixel array based on CMOS small-area silicon photomultipliers (mini-SiPMs)
detectors for PET applications is reported. Each pixel is 570× 610 μm 2 in size and contains …

Metascintillators for ultrafast gamma detectors: A review of current state and future perspectives

G Konstantinou, P Lecoq, JM Benlloch… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scintillation detector development is an active field of research, especially for its application
to the medical imaging field and in particular to the positron emission tomography (PET) …

Improved single photon time resolution for analog SiPMs with front end readout that reduces influence of electronic noise

JW Cates, S Gundacker, E Auffray… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A key step to improve the coincidence time resolution of positron emission tomography
detectors that exploit small populations of promptly emitted photons is improving the single …