Solid state photodetectors like silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are playing an important role
in several fields of medical imaging, life sciences and high energy physics. They are able to …

Abstract GATE (Geant4 Application for Emission Tomography) is a Monte Carlo simulation
platform developed by the OpenGATE collaboration since 2001 and first publicly released in …

Computational modelling of radiation transport can enhance the understanding of the
relative importance of individual processes involved in imaging systems. Modelling is a …

Geant4 is a versatile simulation platform for numerous applications involving transport of
ionizing radiation, including ionizing photons. Moreover, the physics needed for tracking …

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are expected to replace photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in
several applications that require scintillation detectors with excellent timing resolution, such …

A Compton camera-based detector system for photon detection from nuclear reactions
induced by proton (or heavier ion) beams is under development at LMU Munich, targeting …

We propose an ensemble of multilayer feedforward neural networks to estimate the 3D
position of photoelectric interactions in monolithic detectors. The ensemble is trained with …

Photon time-of-flight (TOF) capability in positron emission tomography (PET) enables
reconstructed image signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement. With the coincidence time …

In the development of positron emission tomography (PET) detectors, understanding and
optimizing scintillator light collection is critical for achieving high performance, particularly …

We propose a small-animal PET scanner design combining two sets of monolithic crystals
with two different thicknesses. The detectors with thinner crystals serve for high resolution …