Search Results - "2013 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE (NSS/MIC)"

Timing resolution performance comparison for fast and standard outputs of SensL SiPM by Dolinsky, Sergei, Geng Fu, Ivan, Adrian

“…A new silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) with a unique fast output signal feature was recently introduced by SensL. For a SiPM device with 3×3 mm 2 sensitive area,…”
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A realistic digital phantom for perfusion C-arm CT based on MRI data by Aichert, Andre, Manhart, Michael T., Navalpakkam, Bharath K., Grimm, Robert, Hutter, Jana, Maier, Andreas, Hornegger, Joachim, Doerfler, Arnd

“…CTP is an important imaging modality for diagnosis of ischemic stroke, which is computed from of a series of consecutive CT-scans during the injection of…”
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Petiroc, a new front-end ASIC for time of flight application by Fleury, J., Callier, S., de La Taille, C., Seguin, N., Thienpont, D., Dulucq, F., Ahmad, S., Martin, G.

“…Petiroc is a 16-channel front-end ASIC designed to readout silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for particle time-of-flight measurement applications. Petiroc…”
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Image science with photon-processing detectors by Caucci, Luca, Jha, Abhinav K., Furenlid, Lars R., Clarkson, Eric W., Kupinski, Matthew A., Barrett, Harrison H.

“…We introduce and discuss photon-processing detectors and we compare them with photon-counting detectors. By estimating a relatively small number of attributes…”
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FlexToT - Current mode ASIC for readout of common cathode SiPM arrays by Comerma, Albert, Gascon, David, Freixas, Lluis, Garrido, Lluis, Graciani, Ricardo, Marin, Jesus, Martinez, Gustavo, Perez, Jose Manuel, Rato Mendes, Pedro, Castilla, Javier, Cela, Jose Manuel, Fernandez-Varea, Jose Maria, Sarasola, Iciar

“…A front end application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for the readout of common cathode Silicon Photo-Multipliers arrays is presented with the following…”
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A visi-coil fiducial markers detection method on kV projection images during prostate radiation therapy by Badiei, Shirin, Ling Zhuang, Jia Li

“…Here an accurate automated method based on fast marching approach for detecting visi-coil fiducial markers by using kV imaging is presented. Visi-coil…”
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Quantitative whole-body parametric PET imaging incorporating a generalized Patlak model by Karakatsanis, Nicolas A., Yun Zhou, Lodge, Martin A., Casey, Michael E., Wahl, Richard L., Rahmim, Arman

“…Recently, we proposed a dynamic multi-bed PET imaging and analysis framework enabling clinically feasible whole-body parametric imaging. The standard Patlak…”
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Assessment of Microsoft Kinect technology (Kinect for Xbox and Kinect for windows) for patient monitoring during external beam radiotherapy by Tahavori, F., Alnowami, M., Jones, J., Elangovan, P., Donovan, E., Wells, K.

“…In external beam radiotherapy, patient misalignment during set-up and motion during treatment may result in lost dose to target tissue and increased dose to…”
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Performance of X-ray detectors with SiPM readout in cargo accelerator-based inspection systems by Vinogradov, Sergey, Arodzero, Anatoli, Lanza, Richard C.

“…Existing requirements for high throughput cargo radiography inspection include high resolution images (better than 5 mm line pair resolution), penetration…”
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Direct reconstruction of CT-based attenuation correction images for PET with cluster-based penalties by Soo Mee Kim, Alessio, Adam M., De Man, Bruno, Asma, Evren, Kinahan, Paul E.

“…Extremely low-dose CT acquisitions for the purpose of PET attenuation correction will have a high level of noise and biasing artifacts due to factors such as…”
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Effects of dark counts on Digital Silicon Photomultipliers performance by Marcinkowski, Radoslaw, Espana, Samuel, Van Holen, Roel, Vandenberghe, Stefaan

“…Digital Silicon Photomultipliers (dSiPM) are novel light detector that integrates single-photon avalanche photodiodes and CMOS logic into a single silicon chip…”
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ePix: A class of front-end ASICs for second generation LCLS integrating hybrid pixel detectors by Dragone, A., Caragiulo, P., Markovic, B., Herbst, R., Nishimura, K., Reese, B., Herrmann, S., Hart, P., Blaj, G., Segal, J., Tomada, A., Hasi, J., Carini, G., Kenney, C., Haller, G.

“…ePix is a novel class of ASICs architectures based on a common platform optimized for the processing of signals in second generation LCLS cameras. The platform…”
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Hygroscopicity evaluation of halide scintillators by Zhuravleva, M., Stand, L., Wei, H., Hobbs, C., Boatner, L. A., Ramey, J. O., Shah, K., Burger, A., Rowe, E., Bhattacharya, P., Tupitsyn, E., Melcher, C. L.

“…A collaborative study of relative hygroscopicity of anhydrous halide scintillators grown at various laboratories is presented. We have developed a technique to…”
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Comparison of different methods for data-driven respiratory gating of PET data by Thielemans, Kris, Schleyer, Paul, Marsden, Paul K., Manjeshwar, Ravindra M., Wollenweber, Scott D., Ganin, Alexander

“…Respiratory movement degrades image quality in PET/CT. The first step in correcting for movement is to gate the data into different motion states. In current…”
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Design studies of a CZT-based detector combined with a pixel-geometry-matching collimator for SPECT imaging by Fenghua Weng, Bagchi, Srijeeta, Qiu Huang, Youngho Seo

“…Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) suffers limited efficiency due to the need for collimators. Collimator properties largely decide the data…”
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Rapid rabbit: Highly optimized GPU accelerated cone-beam CT reconstruction by Papenhausen, Eric, Mueller, Klaus

“…Graphical processing units (GPUs) have become widely adopted in the medical imaging community. The parallel SIMD nature of GPUs maps perfectly to many…”
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A method for simultaneous image reconstruction and beam hardening correction by Pengchong Jin, Bouman, Charles A., Sauer, Ken D.

“…Beam hardening is a well known effect in CT scanners that is cause by a combination of a broad polychromatic source X-ray spectrum and energy-dependent…”
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Radiation hardness and detector performance of new 180nm CMOS MAPS prototype test structures developed for the upgrade of the ALICE Inner Tracking System by Hillemanns, H., Aimo, I., Bedda, C., Cavicchioli, C., Collu, A., Giubilato, P., Junique, A., Kugathasan, T., La Rocca, P., Mager, M., Marin Tobon, C., Martinengo, P., Mattiazzo, S., Musa, L., Pappalardo, G., Puggioni, C., Reidt, F., Riedler, P., Santagati, G., Siddhanta, S., Snoeys, W., van Hoorne, J.

“…The features of the 180nm TowerJazz 1 CMOS technology allow for the first time the use of CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) under the harsh…”
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A PET detector module using FPGA-only MVT digitizers by Daoming Xi, Chen Zeng, Wei Liu, Xiang Liu, Lu Wan, Heejong Kim, Luyao Wang, Chien-Min Kao, Qingguo Xie

“…Multi-voltage threshold (MVT) is an amplitude-based sampling method. It takes timing samples when the event pulse crosses the user-defined thresholds. Only a…”
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Experimental evaluation of a deformable registration algorithm for motion correction in PET-CT guided biopsy by Khare, Rahul, Sala, Guillaume, Kinahan, Paul, Esposito, Giuseppe, Banovac, Filip, Cleary, Kevin, Enquobahrie, Andinet

“…Positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) images are increasingly being used for guidance during percutaneous biopsy. However, due to the…”
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