Publications

“Further directions in PET imaging”
Tavernier, S; Bruyndonckx, P
European Musculoskeletal Review 2006, Touch Briefings, UK

“Monte Carlo Simulations in Small Animal PET”
S. Branco, S. Jan, P. Almeida
Imaging 2006 – Stockholm (Sweden), June 2006

“Evaluation of spatial resolution of planar detector PET systems: different strategies show different results”
N. Matela, H. Cordeiro, M. Correia, M.V. Martins, A. Trindade, P. Rodrigues, J. Varela, P. Almeida –
Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging (33) – supplement 1 – September 2006

“Design and evaluation of the Clear-PEM detector for positron emission mammography”
Maria C. Abreu, João D. Aguiar, Fernando G. Almeida, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Bento, Bruno carriço, Miguel Ferreira, Nuno C. Ferreira, Fernando Gonçalves, Carlos Leong, Filipe Lopes, Pedro Lousã, Mónica V. Martins, Nuno Matela, Pedro R. Mendes, Rui Moura, João Nobre, Nuno Oliveira, Catarina Ortigão, Luís Peralta, Rui Pereira, Joel Rego, Rui Ribeiro, P. Rodrigues, José Sampaio, Ana I. Santos, Luís Silva, José C. Silva, Patrick Sousa, Isabel C. Teixeira, João P. Teixeira, Andreia Trindade, João Varela,
IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science (2006), 53(1), pp 71-77

“Initial Characterisation of a Non-pixilated scinitllator detector in a PET Prototype Demonstrator”
P. Bruyndonckx, C. Lemaitre, S. Leonard, D.R. Schaart, D.J. van der Laan, M.S. Maas, O. Devroede, Y, Wu, M. Krieguer, S. Tavernier
Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol 53, n°5 (2006), 2543-2548

“Image reconstruction for the ClearPET Neuro”
Simone Weber, Christian Morel, Luc Simon, Magalie Krieguer, Martin Rey, Brigitte Gundlich, Maryam Khodaverdi
Nucl. Instr. Meth, A569 – 2, 2006 , 20 December 2006, Pages 381-385

“The Clear-PEM Electronics System”
E. Albuquerque, P. Bento, C. Leong, F. Gonçalves, J. Nobre, J. Rego, P. Relvas, P. Lousã, P. Rodrigues, I. C. Teixeira, J. P. Teixeira, L. Silva, M. Medeiros Silva, A. Trindade and J. Varela,
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. vol 53, No 5, pp.2704-2711, October 2006.

“Performance Simulation Studies of the Clear-PEM DAQ/Trigger System”
P. Rodrigues, P. Bento, F. Gonçalves, C. Leong, P. Lousã, J. Nobre, J. C. Silva, L. Silva, J. Rego, P. Relvas, I. C. Teixeira, J. P. Teixeira, A. Trindade and J. Varela, I
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. , Vol. 53, No. 4, August 2006.

“Design and Test Issues of an FPGA Based Data Acquisition System for Medical Imaging Using PEM”
Carlos Leong, Pedro Bento, Pedro Lousã, João Nobre, Joel Rego, Pedro Rodrigues, José C. Silva, Isabel C. Teixeira, J. Paulo Teixeira, Andreia Trindade, and João Varela,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 53, No. 3, June 2006

“Performance Study of a PET Detector Module Based on Continuous Scintillator”
S. Léonard, P. Bruyndonckx, C. Lemaitre, S. Tavernier and Y. Wu
Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol 53, n°5 (2006), 2536-2542

“Scintillation of sol-gel derived lutetium orthophosphate doped with rare earth ions”
C. Mansuy, J-M. Nedelec, C. Dujardin, R. Mahiou,
Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, Vol 38, (2006) 97-105

“The Lu2O3-Al2O3 system: relationships for equilibrium-phase and supercooled states”
A.G.Petrosyan, V.Popova, V.Gusarov, G.Shirinyan, C.Pedrini, P.Lecoq,
J. Crystal Growth, Vol 293, (2006) 74-77.

“Shaped crystal growth of Ce3+-doped Lu-2((1-x))Y2xSiO5 oxyortho silicate for scintillator applications by pulling-down technique”
B. Hautefeuille, K. Lebbou, C. Dujardin, J. M. Fourmigue, L. Grosvalete, O Tillement C. Pedrini,
J. Crystal Growth, Vol 289, (2006) 172-177

“Development of an optimised LSO/LuYAP phoswhich detector head for the Lausanne ClearPET demonstrator”
J.B. Mosset, O. Devroede, M. Krieguer, M. Rey, J.M. Vieira, J.H. Jung, C. Kuntner, M. Streun, K. Ziemons, E. Auffray, P. Sempere-Roldan, P. Lecoq, P. Bruyndonckx, J.-F. Loude, S. Tavernier and C, Morel,
Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol 53, n°1 (2006), 25-29

“Experimental Characterization of Monolithic-crystal Small Animal PET detectors read out by APD Arrays”
M.C. Maas, D.J. van der Laan, D. Schaart, J. Huizenga, J.C. Brouwer, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Léonard, C. Lemaître and C. van Eijk,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 53 (3): 1071-1077 Part 2, Jun 2006

“Using Cramer-Rao theory combined with Monte Carlo simulations for the optimization of monolithic scintillator PET detectors”
D.J. van der Laan, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Léonard, M.C. Maas, D. Schaart and C. van Eijk,
IEEE Transanctions on Nuclear Science 53 (3): 1063-1070 Part 2, JUN 2006

“Novel fast-acting scintillation detectors for wide energy range applications.”
A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, A. Lobko, and O. Missevitch.
Advanced Radiation Sources and Applications. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry – Vol. 199, Ed. by Helmut Wiedemann, Springer 2006, p. 319-328.

“Application of PbWO4 crystal scintillators in experiment to search for 2β decay of 116Cd”
F.A. Danevich, A.Sh. Georgadze, V.V. Kobychev, B.N. Kropivyansky, S.S. Nagorny, A.S. Nikolaiko, D.V. Poda, V.I. Tretyak, I.M. Vyshnevskyi, S.S. Yurchenko, B.V. Grinyov, L.L. Nagornaya, E.N. Pirogov, V.D. Ryzhikov, V.B. Brudanin, Ts. Vylov, A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, A. Lobko, O. Missevitch.
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A556 (2006) 259–265.

“Lead Tungstate Scintillation Crystals with Improved Light Yield for Experimental High-Energy Physics.”
A. E. Borisevich, V. I. Dormenev, M. V. Korzhik, A. A. Fedorov, O. Missevitch.
Instruments and Experimental Techniques, 2006, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 199–202.

Presentations

“A Time-Based Front End Readout System for PET & CT”
T. C. Meyer; F. Powolny; F. Anghinolfi; E. Auffray; M. Dosanjh; H. Hillemanns; H. -F. Hoffmann; P. Jarron; J. Kaplon; M. Kronberger; P. Lecoq; D. Moraes; J. Trummer
2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 2006, Volume: 4, 2494 – 2498,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354417

“Medical Dual-Energy Imaging of Bone Tissues Using ZnSe-Based Scintillator-Photodiode Detectors”
B. V. Grinyov; V. D. Ryzhikov; S. V. Naydenov; A. D. Opolonin; E. K. Lisetskaya; S. N. Galkin; Paul Lecoq
2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Volume: 3, 1945 – 1949,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354275

“Comparison of Nonlinear Position Estimators For Continuous Scintillator Detectors In PET”
Peter Bruyndonckx, Cedric Lemaître, D.J. van der Laan, Marnix Maas, Dennis Schaart, Olivier Devroede, Magalie Krieguer and Stefaan Tavernier
IEEE 2006 NSS/MIC, San Diego, California – Proceedings, M11-134, pg. 2518-2522

“Automated Calibration Method for Parallax Corrected Positioning Algorithms in Monolithic Scintillators”
Cedric Lemaître, Peter Bruyndonckx, O. Devroede, M. Krieger, S. Tavernier, D.J. (Jan) van der Laan, Marnix C. Maas and Denis R. Schaart,
IEEE 2006 NSS/MIC, San Diego, California – Proceedings, M14-189, pg. 3135-3138

“Bayesian image reconstruction for the Clear-PEM scanner”
M.V. Martins, N. Matela, A. Trindade, P. Rodrigues, N. Oliveira, H.Cordeiro, N.C. Ferreira, J. Varela, P. Almeida
Proceedings of the IEEE NSS&MIC Conference 2006 (San Diego, USA).

“Monte Carlo Simulations in Small Animal PET”
S. Branco, S. Jan, P. Almeida
Oral comunication at 9th SAC Seminar “New Trends on Positron Emission Tomography”, St. Petersburg – Russia, Setember 2006

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Développement d’un module de détection phoswich LSO/LuYAP pour le prototype de caméra à positrons ClearPET”
Jean-Baptiste Mosset
PhD Thesis – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne– 2006

“Untersuchungen zur Bildrekonstruktion für die hochauflösende Positronen-Emissions-Tomographie am Beispiel des ClearPET Neuro.”
Patrick Musmann,
PhD Thesis – University of Wuppertal – 2006