A 144 channel measurement IC for CdZnTe detectors, used for PET, is presented. Each channel consists of a charge sensitive amplifier, a fast and a slow shaper, a peak sampler for the energy acquisition and an event detector ...
In the context of computed tomography (CT), iterative image reconstruction techniques are gaining attention because high-quality images are becoming computationally feasible. They involve the solution of large systems of ...
Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Orero Palomares, Abel; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Correcher Salvador, Carlos; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Chapman, S.E.; Leevy, W.M.(American Association of Physicists in Medicine: Medical Physics, 2013-05)
Purpose:
The authors have developed a trimodal PET/SPECT/CT scanner for small animal imaging. The gamma ray subsystems are based on monolithic crystals coupled to multianode photomultiplier tubes (MA-PMTs), while computed ...
Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Gonzalez, A.; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Bellido, P.; Crespo Navarro, Efren; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Rigla Pérez, Juan Pablo; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Sanchez, F.; Seimetz, Michael; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-10)
In gamma-ray detectors, monolithic scintillation crystals offer the possibility of preserving the scintillation light distribution especially when painted black. The statistical moments of this distribution provide accurate ...
[EN] Whole-body Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners are required in order to span large Fields of
View (FOV). Therefore, reaching the sensitivity and spatial resolution required for early stage breast
tumor ...
Seimetz, Michael; Bellido, P.; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; García López, J.; Jiménez-Ramos, M.C.; Fernández, B.; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Crespo Navarro, Efren; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Rigla Pérez, Juan Pablo; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Sanchez, F.; Sanchez, S.; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
We present the calibration and performance tests carried out with two detectors for intense proton pulses accelerated by lasers. Most of the procedures were realized with proton beams of 0.46-5.60 MeV from a tandem ...
Bellido-Millán, Pablo Jesús; Lera, Roberto; Seimetz, Michael; Ruiz-de la Cruz, Alexandro; Torres Peiró, Salvador; Galán, M.; Mur, P.; Sánchez, I.; Zaffino, R.; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Sánchez-Góez, Sebastián; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Rodríguez-Álvarez, M.J.; Rigla, J.P.; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Grau-Ruiz, Daniel; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; García-Garrigos, Juan José; Díaz Caballero, Elena; Conde-Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Aguilar-Talens, Albert; Roso, Luis; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IOP Publishing, 2017-05)
[EN] We report on benchmark tests of a 3 TW/50 fs, table-top laser system specifically developed for proton acceleration with an intrinsic pump rate up to 100 Hz. In two series of single-shot measurements differing in pulse ...
Seimetz, Michael; Orero Palomares, Abel; Morera Ballester, Constantino; Abellan Castillo, Adoracion Inmaculada; Polo Collado, Ramiro; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Pavón Hernández, Noriel; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IOP Publishing, 2014-05)
The radiation sensitive part of the wide-field, small gamma camera Sentinella 108 consists of a monolithic,
102 x 102 mm2 wide CsI(Na) crystal coupled to four position-sensitive photomultipliers. These are read out via a ...
Moliner Martínez, Laura; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Correcher Salvador, Carlos; Orero Palomares, Abel; Carles Fariña, Montserrat; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Barberá Ballester, Julio; Caballero Ontanaya, Luis; Seimetz, Michael; Vazquez Barreiros, Carlos; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2012-09)
Purpose: A breast dedicated positron emission tomography (PET) scanner has been developed based
on monolithic LYSO crystals coupled to position sensitive photomultiplier tubes (PSPMTs). In this
study, we describe the ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; S Aukema, T.; Barberá Ballester, Julio; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Correcher Salvador, Carlos; Orero Palomares, Abel; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Vogel, W.; Vazquez Barreiros, Carlos; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Valdes Olmos, A.R.(Bentham Science Publishers, 2012-05-01)
In this work the design and preliminary clinical results obtained with an innovative and dedicated breast PET is presented. A geometrical study clearly pointed out the advantages of the prone position and the technique of ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Conde, P.; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Orero Palomares, Abel; Peiró Cloquell, Antonio; Rodríguez-Alvarez, M.J.; Ros García, Ana; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2013-02-21)
In this paper we describe the overall design of a PET–MR system for head imaging within the
framework of the DREAM Project as well as the first detector module tests. The PET system design
consists of 4 rings of 16 ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Aguilar, A.; Bellido, P.; Garcia-Olcina, R.; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Rigla, J. P.; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Sánchez, F; Seimetz, Michael; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Torres, Jose; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2015-07-01)
[EN] We have developed a detector block composed by a monolithic LYSO scintillator coupled to a custom
made 12 12 SiPMs array. The design is mainly focused to applications such as Positron Emission
Tomography. The ...
Iborra Carreres, Amadeo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-01-07)
[EN] Model-based computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction is dominated by iterative algorithms. Although long reconstruction times remain as a barrier in practical applications, techniques to speed up its convergence ...
Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Carrilero, V.; Catret, J. V.; Correcher, C.; Lerche, Christoph Werner; Morera, C.; Orero, A.; Pavón, N.; Ros García, Ana; Sánchez, F.; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Colom Palero, Ricardo José; Gadea Gironés, Rafael; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora, C.; Mora Mas, Francisco José; Sebastia Cortes, Angel; Munar, A.(Sociedad Española de Física Médica, 2007)
[ES] En este artículo presentamos el diseño de un nuevo escáner
PET para animales pequeños basado en una tecnología completamente
innovadora. Los resultados preliminares son muy prometedores,
permitiendo obtener imágenes ...
Bellido, P.; Seimetz, Michael; 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)
[Otros] When an ultra-intense and ultra-short laser pulse
interacts with solid matter a fraction of the laser pulse can be
converted into kinetic energy of a beam of charged particles.
Radiochromic film (RCF), widely ...
Iborra, A.; Rodríguez-Álvarez, M. J.; Soriano, A.; Sánchez, F.; Bellido, P.; Conde, P.; Crespo, E.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Martos, F.; Moliner, L.; Rigla, J. P.; Seimetz, Michael; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(IEEE, 2013-11-02)
[EN] The QR-Decomposition algorithm for CT 3D image
reconstruction uses a linear system of equations to model the
CT system response. Linear systems have a condition number
that can be used to estimate the image noise. ...
Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Carles Fariña, Montserrat; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Orero Palomares, Abel; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Physics: Hybrid Open Access, 2013-01)
[EN] The splitting of the field of view (FOV) in polar voxels is proposed in this work in
order to obtain an efficient description of a cone-beam computed tomography (CT) scanner. The
proposed symmetric-polar pixelation ...
Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Conde, P.; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Orero Palomares, Abel; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2013-09-01)
We suggest a symmetric-polar pixellation scheme which makes possible a reduction of the computational cost for expectation maximization (EM) iterative algorithms. The proposed symmetric-polar pixellation allows us to deal ...
Rodríguez-Álvarez, María-José; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Iborra Carreres, Amadeo; Mora Mora, Cibeles(Elsevier, 2011-10)
In this paper we propose several methods of constructing the system matrix (SM) of a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner with two objectives: (1) to construct SMs in the shortest possible time and store them in an ordinary ...
Moliner Martínez, Laura; Correcher, Carlos; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Orero Palomares, Abel; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2013-02-21)
In this work we present an innovative algorithm for the reconstruction of PET images based on the List-Mode (LM) technique which improves their spatial resolution compared to results obtained with current MLEM algorithms. ...