[EN] A novel CMOS integrated front-end architecture is presented throughout this paper. It is designed to be used with detectors based on continuous scintillation crystals plus position sensitive photomultiplier. Its ...
Spaggiari, Michele; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Lerche, Christoph Werner; Aliaga Varea, Ramón José; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Gadea Gironés, Rafael(IOP Publishing: Hybrid Open Access, 2011-01)
In this article we introduce AMIC (Analog Moments Integrated Circuit), a novel analog Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) front-end for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) applications. Its working principle is ...
Aliaga, Ramón J.; Nous, Camille; Petitjean, Colin; Prochazka, Antonin(Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2021)
[EN] We prove a general principle satisfied by weakly precompact sets of Lip-schitz-free spaces. By this principle, certain infinite-dimensional phenomena in Lipschitzfree spaces over general metric spaces may be reduced ...
Huyuk, T.; Di Nitto, Antonio; Jaworski, Grzegorz; Gadea, Andres; Valiente-Dobón, Jose Javier; Nyberg, Johan; Palacz, Marcin; Soderstrom, Par-Anders; Aliaga-Varea, Ramon Jose; de Angelis, Giacomo; Atac, Ayse; Collado, Javier; Domingo-Pardo, Cesar; Egea, Francisco Javier; Erduran, Nizamettin; Gadea Gironés, Rafael; Herrero-Bosch, Vicente(Springer-Verlag, 2016-03-18)
[EN] The NEutron Detector Array (NEDA) project aims at the construction of a new high-efficiency compact neutron detector array to be coupled with large gamma-ray arrays such as AGATA. The application of NEDA ranges from ...
[EN] The new TRacking Array for light Charged particle Ejectiles (TRACE) detector system requires monitorization and sampling of all pulses in a large number of channels with very strict space and power consumption ...
Aliaga Varea, Ramón José(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-05-02)
[EN] Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive nuclear medical imaging modality that makes it possible to observe the distribution of metabolic substances within a patient's body after marking them with radioactive ...
[EN] A highly segmented silicon-pad detector prototype has been tested to explore the performance of the digital pulse shape analysis in the discrimination of the particles reaching the silicon detector. For the first time ...
Monzó Ferrer, José María; Esteve Bosch, Raul; Lerche, Christoph Werner; Ferrando Jódar, Néstor; Toledo Alarcón, José Francisco; Aliaga Varea, Ramón José; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Mora Mas, Francisco José(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-08)
Coincidence time resolution is one of the most important issues in PET detectors. Improving this resolution is required to increase the noise equivalent count rate (NECR) that reduces the noise in the reconstructed images. ...
[EN] We show that, for a separable and complete metric space $M$, the Lipschitz-free space $\mathcal{F}(M)$ embeds linearly and almost-isometrically into $\ell_1$ if and only if $M$ is a subset of an $\mathbb{R}$-tree with ...
Aliaga Varea, Ramón José; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Ros García, Ana; Gadea Gironés, Rafael; Colom Palero, Ricardo José(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-02)
A DAQ architecture for a PET system is presented that focuses on modularity, scalability and reusability. The system defines two basic building blocks: data acquisitors and concentra- tors, which can be replicated in order ...
Monzó Ferrer, José María; Ros García, Ana; Herrero Bosch, Vicente; Perino Vicentini, Ivan Virgilio; Aliaga Varea, Ramón José; Gadea Gironés, Rafael; Colom Palero, Ricardo José(IOP Publishing: Hybrid Open Access, 2013-03)
[EN] Improving timing resolution in positron emission tomography (PET), thus having fine time information of the detected pulses, is important to increase the reconstructed images signal to noise ratio (SNR) [1]. In the ...
In the optimization of artificial neural networks (ANNs) via evolutionary
algorithms and the implementation of the necessary training for the objective function,
there is often a trade-off between efficiency and flexibility. ...
[EN] We prove that all extreme points of the unit ball of a Lipschitz-free space over a compact metric space have finite support. Combined with previous results, this completely characterizes extreme points and implies ...
Aliaga Varea, Ramón José(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-01-17)
[ES] Los espacios libres Lipschitz F(M) son linearizaciones canónicas de espacios métricos M cualesquiera. Más concretamente, F(M) es el único espacio de Banach que contiene una copia isométrica de M que es linearmente ...
Rodríguez Ponce, Jorge(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-10-11)
[ES] El objetivo del trabajo consiste en la implementación de un sistema de sincronización de módulos de adquisición de datos empleando un método que permite alcanzar errores inferiores a 50 picosegundos.
El sistema emplea ...
[EN] New detector approaches in Positron Emission Tomography imaging will play an important role in reducing costs, lowering administered radiation doses, and improving overall performance. PETALO employs liquid xenon as ...
Aliaga, Ramón J.; Pernecká, Eva(Cambridge University Press, 2022-11)
[EN] Let Lip0(M) be the space of Lipschitz functions on a complete metric space M that vanish at a base point. We prove that every normal functional in Lip0(M)¿ is weak* continuous; that is, in order to verify weak* ...
Aliaga, Ramón J.; Guirao Sánchez, Antonio José(Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2019)
[EN] We characterize preserved extreme points of the unit ball of Lipschitz-free spaces F(X) in terms of simple geometric conditions on the underlying metric space (X,d). Namely, the preserved extreme points are the ...
Aliaga Varea, Ramón José; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Spaggiari, Michele; Ferrando Jódar, Néstor; Gadea Gironés, Rafael; Colom Palero, Ricardo José(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-08)
Current PET systems with fully digital trigger rely on early digitization of detector signals and the use of digital processors, usually FPGAs, for recognition of valid gamma events on single detectors. Timestamps are ...
[EN] We consider convex series of molecules in Lipschitz-free spaces, i.e. elements of the form such that . We characterise these elements in terms of geometric conditions on the points , of the underlying metric space, ...