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 ...
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. ...
Monzó Ferrer, José María; Aguilar -Talens, Albert; González Montoro, Andrea; Lamprou,E.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Mázur, Dmytro; Colom Palero, Ricardo José; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IOP Publishing, 2017)
[EN] Developing front-end electronics to improve charge detection and time resolution in gamma-ray detectors is one of the main tasks to improve performance in new multimodal imaging systems that merge information of ...
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 ...
Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Ros García, Ana; Aliaga Varea, Ramón José; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Montoliu, C.; Colom Palero, Ricardo José; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IOP Publishing: Hybrid Open Access, 2012-12)
[EN] AMIC architecture has been introduced in previous works in order to provide a generic and expandable solution for implementing large number of outputs SiPM array/PMT detectors. The underlying idea in AMIC architecture ...
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. ...
Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Carrilero, V.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Catret, J.; Lerche, Christoph Werner; Abellan, D.; García de Quiros, F.; Gimenez, M.; Modia, J.; Sánchez, Filomeno; Ros García, Ana; Martínez, J.; Sebastia Cortes, Angel(Elsevier, 2007-02-01)
[EN] We have constructed a small animal PET with four identical detector modules, each consisting of a continuous LYSO crystal attached to a Position Sensitive Photomultiplier Tube (PSPMT). The dimensions of the continuous ...
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 ...
[EN] We present the first results of the MINDVIEW project. An innovative imaging system for the human brain examination, allowing simultaneous acquisition of PET/MRI images, has been designed and constructed. It consists ...
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 ...
Torres, J.; Aguilar, A.; Garcia-Olcina, R.; Martinez, P.A.; Martos, J.; Soret, J.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Sanchez, F.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-02)
[EN] This contribution describes an accurate approach implementing a Time-to-Digital Converter using a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. Time differences with a FWHM better than 100 ps for 24 pairs of channels ...
Aguilar, A.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Torres, J.; García Olcina, Raimundo; Martos, J.; Soret, J.; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Sanchez, F.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-02)
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have become an alternative to traditional tubes due to several features. However, their implementation to form large arrays is still a challenge especially due to their relatively high ...
[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 ...