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 ...
Latella, Riccardo; Gonzalez, Antonio J.; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Lecoq, Paul; Konstantinou, Georgios(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024-09)
[EN] The signal-to-noise ratio in positron emission tomography (PET) improves with precise timing resolution. PET systems enabling the capability of time-of-flight (ToF) are nowadays available. This study assesses various ...
Latella, Riccardo; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Bonifacio, Daniel A. B.; Kovylina-Zabyako, Miroslavna; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; Lecoq, Paul; Konstantinou, Georgios(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-11)
[EN] In time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET), the timing capabilities of the scintillation-based detector play an important role. An approach for fast timing is using the so-called metascintillators, which ...
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 ...
Konstantinou, Georgios; Zhang, Lei; Bonifacio, Daniel; Latella, Riccardo; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Lecoq, Paul(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024-05)
[EN] In this study, we propose and examine a unique semimonolithic metascintillator (SMMS) detector design, where slow scintillators (BGO or LYSO) are split into thin slabs and read by an array of SiPM, offering ...