Innovations in instrumentation for positron emission tomography

E Berg, SR Cherry - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
PET scanners are sophisticated and highly sensitive biomedical imaging devices that can
produce highly quantitative images showing the 3-dimensional distribution of radiotracers …

[HTML][HTML] Detectors in positron emission tomography

A Zatcepin, SI Ziegler - Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik, 2023 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography is a highly sensitive molecular imaging modality, based on
the coincident detection of annihilation photons after positron decay. The most used detector …

Design and performance of a resistor multiplexing readout circuit for a SiPM detector

AL Goertzen, X Zhang, MM McClarty… - … on Nuclear Science, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A silicon photomultiplier (SiPM)-based positron emission tomography (PET) detector was
developed using a resistor network charge division multiplexing circuit for detector readout …

Performance of a PET insert for high-resolution small-animal PET/MRI at 7 tesla

G Stortz, JD Thiessen, D Bishop, MS Khan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
We characterize a compact MR-compatible PET insert for simultaneous preclinical PET/MRI.
Although specifically designed with the strict size constraint to fit inside the 114-mm inner …

First results from a high-resolution small animal SiPM PET insert for PET/MR imaging at 7T

AL Goertzen, G Stortz, JD Thiessen… - … on Nuclear Science, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the initial results from a small animal PET insert designed to be operated inside
a 7T MRI. The insert fits within the 114 mm inner diameter of the Bruker BGA-12S gradient …

Investigation of analog charge multiplexing schemes for SiPM based PET block detectors

E Downie, X Yang, H Peng - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Reducing the number of output channels in pixelated positron emission tomography (PET)
detectors is an effective way to minimize cost and complexity while minimizing the impact on …

Initial results of a mouse brain PET insert with a staggered 3-layer DOI detector

HG Kang, H Tashima, F Nishikido… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Small animal positron emission tomography (PET) requires a submillimeter
resolution for better quantification of radiopharmaceuticals. On the other hand, depth-of …

High-volume silicon photomultiplier production, performance, and reliability

C Jackson, K O'Neill, L Wall… - Optical Engineering, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This publication details CMOS foundry fabrication, reliability stress assessment, and
packaged sensor test results obtained during qualification of the SensL B-Series silicon …

Improving depth-of-interaction resolution in pixellated PET detectors using neural networks

A Zatcepin, M Pizzichemi, A Polesel… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Parallax error is a common issue in high-resolution preclinical positron emission
tomography (PET) scanners as well as in clinical scanners that have a long axial field of …

[图书][B] Radiation detectors for medical imaging

JS Iwanczyk - 2015 - books.google.com
Radiation Detectors for Medical Imaging discusses the current state of the art and future
prospects of photon-counting detectors for medical imaging applications. Featuring …