Background Current clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems utilize detectors
where the scintillator typically contains single elements of 3–6‐mm width and about 20‐mm …

Objective. The goal of this work is to experimentally compare the 3D spatial and energy
resolution of a semi-monolithic detector suitable for total-body positron emission tomography …

Objective. Positron emission tomography (PET) detectors providing attractive coincidence
time resolutions (CTRs) offer time-of-flight information, resulting in an improved signal-to …

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering medical imaging, mainly enhancing image
reconstruction. Nevertheless, improvements throughout the entire processing, from signal …

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 …

Typical positron emission tomography (PET) detectors consist of one-layer segmented
scintillators coupled to silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Light-sharing detectors, eg, semi …

Objective. Prompt-gamma imaging encompasses several approaches to the online
monitoring of the beam range or deposited dose distribution in proton therapy. We test one …

The supervised machine learning technique Gradient Tree Boosting (GTB) has shown good
accuracy for position estimation of gamma interaction in PET crystals for bench-top …

The integration of PET into MRI to form a hybrid system requires often compromises for both
subsystems. For example, the integration might come at the cost of a reduced PET detector …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional medical imaging technique visualizing
metabolic processes with high sensitivity and application in research as well as in the clinic …