[EN] In this article, we present the geometrical design and preliminary results of a high sensitivity organ-specific Positron Emission Tomography (PET) system dedicated to the study of the human brain. The system, called ...
Konstantinou, G.; Latella, R.; Moliner, L.; Zhang, L.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Lecoq, P.(IOP Publishing, 2023-01-21)
[EN] Objective: Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (PET)is the next frontier in improving the
effective sensitivity. To achieve superior timing for time-of-flight PET, combined with high detection
efficiency and ...
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 ...
Ilisie, V.; Giménez-Alventosa, Vicent; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Sánchez, F.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Rodríguez-Álvarez, M.J.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] Current PET detectors have a very low sensitivity, of the order of a few percent. One of the reasons is the fact that Compton interactions are rejected. If an event involves multiple Compton scattering and the total ...
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 ...
Ordiñana Artés, Lucía(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-07-30)
[ES] El presente trabajo de fin de grado ha sido realizado en la empresa Vicky Foods, en el departamento
de proyectos, concretamente en automática.
El objeto del proyecto es la programación de una máquina fresadora ...
Larroza, Andrés; Moliner, Laura; Álvarez-Gómez, Juan Manuel; Oliver-Gil, Sandra; Espinós-Morató, Héctor; Vergara-Díaz, Marina; Rodríguez-Álvarez, María J.(IEEE, 2019-11-02)
[EN] Synthetic computed tomography (CT) images
derived from magnetic resonance images (MRI) are of interest
for radiotherapy planning and positron emission tomography
(PET) attenuation correction. In recent years, deep ...
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; 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 ...
Rodríguez García, Andrea(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-10-25)
[ES] Este proyecto consiste en el diseño de un TAC de reducidas dimensiones destinado a la exploración de tejidos biológicos, teniendo por tanto su principal aplicación en biología y oncología. Para ello, se deberá diseñar ...
Domingo Alonso, Alejandro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-06-12)
[ES] El presente proyecto consiste en el estudio y diseño de una boya oceanográfica con sensores ambientales integrados con el fin de poder realizar estudios ambientales, así como la adquisición de datos tanto marinos como ...
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 ...
Álvarez-Gómez, Juan Manuel; Santos-Blasco, Joaquín; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Rodríguez-Álvarez, María José(MDPI AG, 2021-10)
[EN] Improvements in energy resolution of modern positron emission tomography (PET) detectors have created opportunities to implement energy-based scatter correction algorithms. Here, we use the energy information of ...
Ilisie, Victor; Moliner, Laura; Oliver-Gil, Sandra; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Seimetz, Michael; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Nature Publishing Group, 2019-12-05)
[EN] Gamma cameras are of great interest due to their high potential in the field of Nuclear Medicine Imaging. They allow for an early diagnosis of reduced size tumors, and also for a wide variety of preclinical studies ...
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. ...
Lecoq, Paul; Konstantinou, Georgios; Latella, Riccardo; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Nuyts, Johan; Zhang, Lei; Barrio, John; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022-05)
[EN] We report on the progress on a first generation of
realistic size metascintillators for time-of-flight PET. These heterostructures combine dense LYSO or BGO plates, interleaved
with fast scintillator layers producing ...