Intraoperative gamma cameras: a review of development in the last decade and future outlook

AL Farnworth, SL Bugby - Journal of Imaging, 2023 - mdpi.com
Portable gamma cameras suitable for intraoperative imaging are in active development and
testing. These cameras utilise a range of collimation, detection, and readout architectures …

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 …

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 …

Development of depth encoding small animal PET detectors using dual‐ended readout of pixelated scintillator arrays with Si PM s

Z Kuang, Z Sang, X Wang, X Fu, N Ren… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The performance of current small animal PET scanners is mainly limited by the
detector performance and depth encoding detectors are required to develop PET scanner to …

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 …

High-throughput FPGA-based inference of gradient tree boosting models for position estimation in PET detectors

K Krueger, F Mueller, P Gebhardt… - … on Radiation and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In modern large-scale positron emission tomography (PET) systems, transferring the
digitized raw detector data at high count rates to a centralized processing unit is a challenge …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable gamma-ray camera for wide-area search based on silicon photomultipliers array

M Jeong, B Van, BT Wells, LJ D'Aries… - Review of Scientific …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Portable coded-aperture imaging systems based on scintillators and semiconductors have
found use in a variety of radiological applications. For stand-off detection of weakly emitting …

Design and detector performance of the PET component of the TRIMAGE PET/MR/EEG scanner

N Belcari, MG Bisogni, N Camarlinghi… - … on Radiation and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The TRIMAGE project aims at developing a brain-dedicated PET/MR/EEG system able to
perform simultaneous PET, MR and EEG acquisitions for application in schizophrenia. Both …

An advanced 100-channel readout system for nuclear imaging

Z Zhao, S Xie, X Zhang, J Yang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reading out from large-scale silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays is a fundamental
technical obstacle blocking the application of revolutionary SiPM technologies in nuclear …

A novel read-out electronics design based on 1-bit sigma-delta modulation

Z Zhao, Q Huang, Z Gong, Z Su… - … on Nuclear Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The conventional front-end electronics for PET imaging consist of an energy circuit and a
timing circuit. A single channel in front-end electronics typically requires several amplifiers …