González, A.; Sanchez, Filomeno; Bruyndonckx, Peter; Cañizares-Ledo, Gabriel; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(Elsevier, 2019-03-11)
[EN] The main aim of this work is to provide a method to retrieve the intrinsic spatial resolution of a gamma-ray detector block based on monolithic crystals within an assembled scanner. This method consists on a discrimination ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Sánchez, F.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-09)
[EN] In this review, we will cover both clinical and technical aspects of the advantages and disadvantages of organ specific (dedicated) molecular imaging (MI) systems, namely positron emission tomography (PET) and single ...
Soriano, A.; Sánchez, F.; Carrilero, V.; Pardo, A.; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Vazquez, C.; Barbera, J.; Seimetz, Michael; Rodríguez-Álvarez, M.J.; Rigla, J. P.; Moliner, L.; Iborra, A.; Hernández, L.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Crespo, E.; Conde, P.; Bellido, P.; Caballero, L.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IEEE, 2013-11-02)
[EN] MAMMI is a dedicated breast positron emission tomograph (PET) based on monolythic LYSO crystals, with a transaxial field of view (FOV) of 170 mm. It has been upgraded by adding a second ring of detectors that extends ...
PET systems designed for specific applications require high resolution and sensitivity instrumentation. In dedicated system design smaller ring diameters and deeper crystals are widely used in order to increase the system ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Majewski, Stanislaw; Barbera, J.; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Correcher, C.; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Morera, C.; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Stolin, A.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-02)
In this paper, the capabilities of a wide-area gamma ray photosensor based on a SiPM array are investigated. For this purpose, we have mounted an array of 144 SiPMs with individual active area of mm and a pitch of mm, thus ...
Lamprou, Efthymios; Aguilar -Talens, Albert; Gonzalez-Montoro, Andrea; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Cañizares-Ledo, Gabriel; Iranzo-Egea, Sofía; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Conde-Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Sánchez-Góez, Sebastián; Sanchez, Filomeno; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2018-12-21)
[EN] In this contribution, large SiPM arrays (8 x 8 elements of 6 x 6 mm(2) each) are processed with an ASIC-based readout and coupled to a monolithic LYSO crystal to explore their potential use for TOF-PET applications. ...
Cañizares-Ledo, Gabriel; Gonzalez-Montoro, Andrea; Freire, Marta; Lamprou, Efthymios; Barrio, John; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Hernandez, Liczandro; Moliner, Laura; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Torres, Irene; Sopena, Pablo; Vera-Donoso, Cesar D.; Bello, Pilar; Barbera, Julio; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(SpringerOpen (part of Springer Nature), 2020-06-05)
[EN] Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) represents one of the most common types of
cancers facing the male population. Nowadays, to confirm PCa, systematic or
multiparametric MRI-targeted transrectal or transperineal ...
Carles, M.; Lerche, Christoph Werner; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2011)
[EN] In this work we study the effects on the spatial resolution when depth of interaction (001) information is included in the parameterization of the line of response (LOR) for a small animal positron emission tomography ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Barrio, J.; Lamprou, E.; Ilisie, Victor; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Società italiana di fisica, 2020-02)
[EN] This contribution reports on the recently held MEDAMI 2019 workshop in Valencia (15-17th May 2019). This workshop is about advanced molecular imaging and the main topic of this last edition was Imaging in Immunotherapy. ...
Rodríguez-Álvarez, MJ; Sánchez, F.; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Sánchez Góez, Sebastián; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)
[EN] Even though QR-factorization of the system matrix for tomographic devices has been already used for medical imaging, to date, no satisfactory solution has been found for solving large linear systems, such as those ...
Conde, P.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Hernández, L.; Bellido, P.; Crespo, E.; Iborra, A.; Moliner, L.; Rigla, J. P.; Rodríguez-Álvarez, M.J.; Sánchez, F.; Seimetz, Michael; Soriano, A.; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IEEE, 2013-11-02)
[EN] Monolithic scintillation crystals offer the possibility to preserve the scintillation light distribution, specially when black painted. Furthermore, the statistical moments of that distribution can provide accurate ...
Aguilar, Albert; Garcia-Olcina, Raimundo; Martinez, Pedro A.; Martos, Julio; Soret, Jesús; Torres-Pais, Jose; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno(Elsevier, 2014-01-11)
Coincidence time measurements with SiPMs have shown to be suitable for PET/MR systems. The present study is based on 3 x 3 mm(2) SiPMs, LSO crystals and a conditioning signal electronic circuit. A Constant Fraction ...
Aguilar, A.; García Olcina, Raimundo; Martos, J.; Soret, J.; Torres-Pais, Jose; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno(IOP Publishing, 2014-05)
In this work the implementation of a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) using a Nutt
delay line FPGA-based and applied on a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) device is going
to be presented in order to check the system’s ...
Moliner, L.; Correcher, C.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Conde, P.; Crespo, E.; Hernandez, L.; Rigla, J. P.; Rodriguez-Alvarez, M. J.; Sanchez, F.; Soriano, A.; Iborra, A.; Bellido, P.; Seimetz, Michael; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IEEE, 2013-11-02)
[EN] The LM-EM algorithm has the advantage to
calculate the emission probabilities needed for the reconstruction
process on the fly, without the need of a pre-calculated system
matrix. The reconstruction time for this ...
Seimetz, Michael; Bellido, P.; Soriano, A.; Huertas, C.; García Lopez, J.; Jimenez-Ramos, M. C:; Fernandez, B.; Conde, P.; Crespo, E.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Hernández, L.; Iborra, A.; Martos, F.; Moliner, L.; Rigla, J. P.; Rodríguez-Álvarez, M.J.; Sánchez, F.; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IEEE, 2013-11-02)
[EN] Lasers of ultra-high intensity focused on thin targets can form plasmas and release large numbers of charged particles with kinetic energies in the MeV region. The characterization of the accelerated particles requires ...
[EN] Recently, two novel PET devices have been developed with open geometries, namely: breast and prostate-dedicated scanners. The breast-dedicated system comprises two detector rings of twelve modules with a field of view ...