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 ...
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 ...
García Panach, Javier; Lull Noguera, Nuria; Lull Noguera, Juan José; Ferri Domínguez, Joan; Martínez, Carlos; Sopena, Pablo; Robles Viejo, Montserrat; Chirivella Garrido, Javier; Noé Sebastián, Enrique(Mary Ann Liebert, 2011-09)
[EN] The objective was to study the correlations and the differences in glucose metabolism between the thalamus and cortical structures in a sample of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients with different neurological ...
Sánchez Góez, Sebastián(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-01-17)
[ES] La tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET, del inglés Positron Emission Tomography) es una técnica de medicina nuclear en la que se genera una imagen a partir de la detección de rayos gamma en coincidencia. Estos ...
[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 ...
[EN] The present work focuses on the analysis of nuclear reactions that can occur in a cyclotron for the generation of radionuclides compliant with the restrictions necessary for medical use in a PET. These radionuclides ...
Cantalapiedra Cabezas, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-03-05)
[ES] La literatura científica ha demostrado que los carcinomas prostáticos reducen la difusión en imágenes de resonancia magnética (MRI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Para cuantificar la difusión se utiliza el coeficiente ...
Oliver, J,F.; Fuster García, Elíes; Cabello, J.; Tortajada Velert, Salvador; Rafecas Lopez, Maria Magdalena(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-10)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is based on the detection in coincidence of the two photons created in a positron annihilation. In conventional PET, this coincidence identification is usually carried out through a ...
Fuster García, Elíes(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-09-20)
A lo largo de la última década hemos asistido a un desarrollo sin precedentes de las tecnologías de la salud. Los avances en la informatización, la creación de redes, las técnicas de imagen, la robótica, las micro/nano ...
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, 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 ...
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. ...
Lecoq, P.; González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Auffray, E.; Konstantinou, G.; Nuyts, J.; Prior, J. O.; Turtos, R. M.; Varela, J.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-05)
[EN] We report in this article on the Fast Timing in Medical Imaging workshop, (Valencia, 2 June 2022). The workshop gathered 104 attendees from all over the world, with representatives from the academic and industrial ...
[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 ...
Lull Noguera, Nuria; Noé, E.; Lull Noguera, Juan José; García Panach, Javier; García Martí, Gracián; Chirivella, J.; Ferri, J.; Sopena, R; De la Cueva, L; Robles Viejo, Monserrat(Elsevier España (Elsevier Doyma), 2010-04)
Objetivos
Estudiar la relación entre el metabolismo talámico y la situación neurológica en pacientes que han sufrido un traumatismo craneoencefálico (TCE).
Material y métodos
Se incluyó a 19 pacientes que habían sufrido ...
[EN] Objective. Acollinearity of annihilation photons (APA) introduces spatial blur in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. This phenomenon increases proportionally with the scanner diameter and it has been shown ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rius Rocabert, Sergio(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-01-19)
[ES] La rinosinusitis es un proceso inflamatorio que afecta a la cavidad y senos nasales obstruyéndolos. Se denomina rinosinusitis crónica (RSC) cuando la enfermedad perdura más allá de las 12 semanas. La RSC puede verse ...
González Martínez, Antonio Javier; Moreno, Manuel; Barberá, Julio; Conde Castellanos, Pablo Eloy; Hernández Hernández, Liczandro; Moliner Martínez, Laura; Monzó Ferrer, José María; Orero Palomares, Abel; Peiró Cloquell, Antonio; Polo Collado, Ramiro; Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Ros García, Ana; Sánchez Martínez, Filomeno; Soriano Asensi, Antonio; Vidal San Sebastián, Luis Fernando; Benlloch Baviera, Jose María(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-04)
[EN] In this work we describe a procedure to reduce the number of signals detected by an array of 256 Silicon Photo-multipliers (SiPMs) using a resistor network to divide the signal charge into few readout channels. Several ...