Publications

“The ClearPET LSO/LuYAP Phoswich Camera: A high Performance Small Animal PET System”
K. Ziemons; E. Auffray; R. Barbier; G. Brandenburg; P. Bruyndonckx; Y. Choi; D. Christ; N. Costes; Y. Declais; O. Devroede; C. Dujardin; A. A. Fedorov; U. Heinrichs; A. Hollendung; M. J. Korjhik; M. Krieguer; C. Kuntner; G. Largeron; C. Lartizien; H. Larue; P. Lecoq; S. Leonard; J. Martcau; Ch. Morel; J. B. Mosset; Ch. Parl; Ch. Pedrini; A. G. Petrosyan; U. Pietrzyk; M. Rey; S. Saladino; D. Sappey-Marinier; L. Simon; M. Streun; S. Tavernier; J. M. Vieira
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE, Year: 2003, Volume: 3, 1728 – 1732
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352212

“Charge transfer fluorescence and f-f luminescence in ytterbium compounds”
I.Kamenskikh, N.Guerassimova, C.Dujardin, N.Garnier, G.Ledoux, C.Pedrini, M.Kirm, A.Petrosyan, D.Spassky,
Optical Materials 2003, 24, 377-381.

“LuAP/LuYAP single crystals for PET scanners: effects of composition and growth history”
A.G.Petrosyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, G.O.Shirinyan, T.I.Butaeva, M.V.Derzyan, C.Pedrini, N.Garnier, C.Dujardin, I.A.Kamenskikh,
Optical Materials, 2003, 24, 259-263.

“Scintillation properties of mixed LuYAP crystals in view of their use in a small animal PET scanner in phoswich configuration”
C. Kuntner, E. Auffray, C. Dujardin, P. Lecoq, C. Pedrini, M. Schneegans
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume: 50 , Issue: 5 , Part: 2 (2003) 1477 – 1482
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817415

“GATE, a Geant4-based simulation platform for PET and SPECT integrating movement and time management”
G. Santin, D. Strul, D. Lazaro, L. Simon, M. Krieguer, M. Vieira Martins, V. Breton and C. Morel,
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50, 5 (2003) 1516-1521

“Study of spatial resolution and depth of interaction of APD-based PET detector modules using light sharing schemes”
P. Bruyndonckx, S. Leonard, Jiangui Liu, S. Tavernier, P. Szupryczynski, A. Fedorov
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 50 (2003) n° 5, 1415-1419

Presentations

“GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission): a PET/SPECT general-purpose simulation platform”
D. Strul, G. Santin, D. Lazaro, V. Breton, C. Morel
Nucl. Phys. B-Proc. Suppl. 125 (2003) 75-79
Conference : Siena’2002, 8th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors, Oct 21-24 2002, Siena, Italy

“X-ray and optical studies of ytterbium-doped gallium garnets”
G.Shirinyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, A.Eganyan, A.G.Petrosyan, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin, I.Kamenskikh, N.Guerassimova,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. A 537 (2005) 134-138.
(Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“ClearPEM – A new prototype for dedicated positron emission mammography”
M.C. Abreu, P. Almeida, F. Balau, P. Bordalo, N.C. Ferreira, S. Fetal, F. Fraga, P. Leqoc, M. Martins, N. Matela, R. Moura, C. Ortigão, L. Peralta, S. Ramos, P. Rato Mendes, R. Ribeiro, P. Rodrigues, A. I. Santos, A. Trindade, J. Varela
Proceedings of SCINT2003 – 7th International Conference on Inorganic Scintilators and Industrial Applications – Valencia – Spain.

“Light yield temperature dependence of lutetium-based scintillation crystals.”
Andrei Fedorov, Mikhail Korzhik, Alexander Lobko, Oleg Missevitch, Alexander Annenkov.
Proceedings of the SCINT 2003 International Conference, 8-12 September 2003, Valencia, Spain.

“Light yield improvement of lead tungstate scintillation crystal for PANDA detector.”
A.Borisevich, A.Hofstaetter, V. Dormenev, A.Fedorov, M.Korzhik, V.D. Ligoun, B.K.Meyer, O.Missevitch, R.Novotny.
Proceedings of the SCINT 2003 International Conference, 8-12 September 2003, Valencia, Spain, p.66.

“Prototype of led-based reference light source for multichannel scintillation detectors.”
A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, A.Lobko, A.Lopatik, O. Missevitch.
Conf. abstr. 7th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators SCINT’2003. Valencia, Spain, 8-12 September, 2003, p.109.

“(Lu-Y)AP:Ce Scintillation Crystals For PET Scanners.”
P.Lecoq, M. Korzhik, A. Fedorov.
Proceedings of the IEEE 2003 International Conference, 19-25 October 2003, Potrland, Oregon, USA.

“The ClearPET™LSO/LuYAP Phoswich Scanner: A high Performance Small Animal PET System”
K.Ziemons, E.Auffray, G.Brandenburg, P.Bruyndonckx, D.Christ, O. Devroede, A.Fedorov, U.Heinrichs, A.Hollendung, M.Korzhik, M.Krieger, C.Kuntner, C.Lartizien, H.Larue, P.Lecoq, S.Leonard, Ch.Morel, J.B.Mosset, Ch.Pedrini, A.Petrosyan, U.Pietrzyk, M.Rey, S.Saladino, D.Sappey-Marinier, L.Simon, M.Streun, D.Strul, S.Tavernier,
Proceedings of the IEEE 2003 NSS-MIC conference, October 2003, Portland Oregon. J1-4

“Clear-PEM: Monte-Carlo Performance and Image Reconstruction Studies”
Andreia Trindade, Pedro Almeida, Filipa Balau, Nuno Ferreira, Susana Fetal, Francisco Fraga, Mónica Martins, Nuno Matela, Pedro Mendes, Rui Moura, Catarina Ortigão, Luís Peralta, Rui Ribeiro, Pedro Rodrigues, João Varela
IEEE MIC-NSS 2003 Conference M3-118.

“Parallax recovery using neural networks in PET detectors based on continuous scintillators”
P. Bruyndonckx, S. Leonard, S. Tavernier
Proceedings of the IEEE 2003 NSS-MIC conference, October 2003, Portland Oregon. M6-113 CD

“Performance evaluation of a PET detector module using a continuous LSO block coupled to an APD array”
S. Leonard, P. Bruydonckx, S. Tavernier.
Proceedings of the IEEE 2003 NSS-MIC conference, October 2003, Portland Oregon. M6-104 CD

“The ClearPET project”
E. Auffray et al. (23 authors), Crystal Clear collaboration
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 527 (2004) 171–174
(Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, ITBS2003, Milos, Greece, May 26- May 30, 2003)

“Characterisation of arrays of avalanche photodiodes for small animal positron emission tomography”
J.‑B. Mosset, S. Saladino, J.‑F. Loude, C. Morel
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 504 (2003) 325-330
Conference : Beaune’2002, 3rd International Conference on New Developments in Photodetection, Jun 17-21 2002, Beaune, France

“LuxY1-x)AP:Ce scintillation crystals”
M. Korzhik; A. Annenkov; A. Khruchinski; A. Fedorov; S. Kuten; P. Lecoq; V. Ligoun; O. Missevitch
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE, Volume: 2, 882 – 885 Vol.2,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1351837

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Evaluation of New Inorganic Scintillators for Application in a Prototype Small Animal PET
Scanner”
Claudia Kuntner
Ph.D. in physics, Technischen Universität Wien Technisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2003

“Designstudie eines pCTZusatzes für einen hochauflösenden Positronen- Emissions-Tomographen Beispiel für ein multimodales bildgebendes System”
Maryam Khodaverdi,
PhD Thesis – University of Wuppertal – 2003