[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 ...
Freire, Marta; Gonzalez-Montoro, Andrea; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-05)
[EN] Molecular imaging systems, such as positron emission tomography (PET), use detectors providing energy and a 3-D interaction position of a gamma ray within a scintillation block. Monolithic crystals are becoming an ...
González, A.; Sánchez, F.; Martí, Rosana; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Aguilar-Talens, Albert; BARBERA BALLESTER, JULIO; CATRET MASCARELL, JUAN VICENTE; Cañizares-Ledo, Gabriel; Conde-Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Lamprou, Efthymios; Martos Pedrosa, Francisco; Sánchez-Góez, Sebastián; Vidal San Sebastian, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(Elsevier, 2018-12-21)
[EN] Organ dedicated PET devices provide improved imaging performance when compared to whole body systems. The present study summarizes the test carried out to study a new detector block designed for an organ dedicated PET ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; González-Montoro, Andrea(2024-01)
[EN] Some specific MI designs assessing early detection and staging of PCa have been proposed. It can be differentiated between systems (dedicated-, WB-and TB-PET), and inserts or probes that are placed much closer to the ...
[EN] We propose an ensemble of multilayer feedforward neural networks to estimate the 3D position of photoelectric interactions in monolithic detectors. The ensemble is trained with data generated from optical Monte Carlo ...
[EN] There are drawbacks with using a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner design employing the traditional arrangement of multiple detectors in an array format. Typically PET systems are constructed with many regular ...
Freire López-Fando, Marta(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-07)
[ES] La Tomografía por Emisión de Positrones (PET) es una potente técnica de imagen que proporciona mediante el uso de radiofármacos específicos medidas cuantitativas de los procesos biológicos y fisiológicos que tienen ...
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 ...
Gonzalez-Montoro, Andrea; González Martínez, Antonio Javier(IOP Publishing, 2019-07)
[EN] The use of photosensors of the type Silicon Photomultpliers (SiPM) has widely been extended in recent years for multiple applications in both research and industry. However, there is a lack of comparative studies of ...
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 ...
[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 ...