Timing performance of lead halide perovskite nanoscintillators embedded in a polystyrene matrix

K Děcká, F Pagano, I Frank, N Kratochwil… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials like CsPbBr3, benefiting from quantum confinement effects to feature ultra-
fast decay time and tunable emission, are paving the way for the next generation of fast …

Advances in heterostructured scintillators: toward a new generation of detectors for TOF-PET

F Pagano, N Kratochwil, M Salomoni… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Time-of-flight-positron emission tomography would highly benefit from a
coincidence time resolution (CTR) below 100 ps: improvement in image quality and patient …

Bright Innovations: Review of Next-Generation Advances in Scintillator Engineering

P Singh, G Dosovitskiy, Y Bekenstein - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
This review focuses on modern scintillators, the heart of ionizing radiation detection with
applications in medical diagnostics, homeland security, research, and other areas. The …

A roadmap for sole Cherenkov radiators with SiPMs in TOF-PET

N Kratochwil, S Gundacker… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Time of flight positron emission tomography can strongly benefit from a very accurate time
estimator given by Cherenkov radiation, which is produced upon a 511 keV positron …

Time of flight in perspective: instrumental and computational aspects of time resolution in positron emission tomography

DR Schaart, G Schramm, J Nuyts… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The first time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) scanners were developed
as early as in the 1980s. However, the poor light output and low detection efficiency of TOF …

Low power implementation of high frequency SiPM readout for Cherenkov and scintillation detectors in TOF-PET

JW Cates, WS Choong - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract State-of-the-art (SoA) electronic readout for silicon photomultiplier (SiPM)-based
scintillation detectors that demonstrate experimental limits in achievable coincidence time …

A comprehensive survey of readout strategies for SiPMs used in nuclear imaging systems

S Hatefi Hesari, MA Haque, N McFarlane - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) offer advantages such as lower relative cost, smaller size,
and lower operating voltages compared to photomultiplier tubes. A SiPM's readout circuit …

A comprehensive study on the timing limits of the TOFPET2 ASIC and on approaches for improvements

V Nadig, M Yusopova, H Radermacher… - … on Radiation and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Novel electronic readout schemes of analog silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have shown
impressive timing performance of-detectors in positron emission tomography (PET) …

HRFlexToT: a high dynamic range ASIC for time-of-flight positron emission tomography

D Sánchez, S Gómez, J Mauricio… - … on Radiation and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-Flight positron emission tomography scanners demand fast and efficient photo
sensors and scintillators coupled to fast readout electronics. This article presents the high …

Time resolution studies of thallium based Cherenkov semiconductors

G Terragni, M Pizzichemi, E Roncali, SR Cherry… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the context of improving the detector performance of time-of-flight positron emission
tomography (TOF-PET), the combination of charge induction readout and prompt Cherenkov …