[HTML][HTML] Insights and simulation of metascintillator-based brain PET systems to enhance ToF capability

DAB Bonifacio, R Latella, HM Murata… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The integration of Time-of-Flight (ToF) information into Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
image reconstruction enhances both signal-to-noise ratio and the localization of annihilation …

Improving timing resolution of BGO for TOF-PET: a comparative analysis with and without deep learning

F Loignon-Houle, N Kratochwil, M Toussaint, C Lowis… - EJNMMI physics, 2025 - Springer
Background The renewed interest in BGO scintillators for TOF-PET is driven by the improved
Cherenkov photon detection with new blue-sensitive SiPMs. However, the slower …

Scintillation and cherenkov photon counting detectors with analog silicon photomultipliers for TOF-PET

JW Cates, WS Choong, E Brubaker - Physics in Medicine & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Standard signal processing approaches for scintillation detectors in positron
emission tomography (PET) derive accurate estimates for 511 keV photon time of interaction …

Emphasizing Cherenkov Photons From Bismuth Germanate by Single Photon Response Deconvolution

R Ota, K Ote - IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bismuth germanate (BGO) has been receiving attention again because it is a potential
scintillator for future time-of-flight positron emission tomography. Owing to its optical …

TlCl: Be, I: a High Sensitivity Scintillation and Cherenkov Radiator for TOF-PET

N Kratochwil, N Kaneshige, G Terragni… - … on Radiation and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The material requirements for gamma-ray detectors for medical imaging applications are
multi-fold and sensitivity is often overlooked. High effective atomic number (Zeff) Cherenkov …

Emphasizing Cherenkov photons from bismuth germanate by single photon deconvolution

R Ota, K Ote - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04432, 2023 - arxiv.org
Bismuth germanate (BGO) has been receiving attention again because it is a potential
scintillator for future time-of-flight positron emission tomography. Owing to its optical …