Publications

“Large volume CaMoO4 scintillation crystals.”
M.V. Korzhik, V.N. Kornoukhov, A.A. Fedorov, O. V. Missevitch, A.N. Annenkov, O. A. Buzanov, A.Borisevicth, V.I. Dormenev, A. L. Kholmetskii, S. K. Kim, Y. Kim, H. Kim, A.V. Bratyakina.
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sc. Vol.55, No 3, 2008, p.1473-1475.

“(Lu-Y)AlO3:Ce Scintillator for Well Logging”
A. Baberdin, A. Dutova, A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, V. Ligoun, O. Missevitch, V. Kazak, A. Vinokurov, and S. Zagumenov.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 55, no. 3, 2008, pp.1352 – 1356.

“Development of scintillation materials for PET scanners.”
M. Korzhik, A.Fedorov, A. Annenkov, A. Borissevitch, A. Dossovitski, P. Lecoq, O. Missevitch.
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 571 (2007) 122–125.

“Monte Carlo simulations in small animal PET imaging”
S. Branco, S. Jan. S, P. Almeida P.
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, (2007) Vol 580, 1127-1130

“Evaluation of fiber-shaped LYSO for double readout gamma photon detection”
P. Anfre, C. Dujardin, J. M. Fourmigue, B. Hautefeuille, K. Lebbou, C. Pedrini, D. Perrodin, O Tillement
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 54 (2007) 391-394

“Long-term Stability of the Clear-PEM Detector Modules”
Pedro Amaral, Peter Bruyndonckx, Bruno Carriço, Miguel Ferreira, Joan Luyten, Rui Moura, Catarina Ortigão, Pedro Rodrigues, José C. Da Silva, Andreia Trindade and João Varela
Nucl. Instr. Meth, A571 (1-2): 488-492 Feb 1, 2007

“Investigation of an In-situ Position Calibration Method for Continuous Crystal Based PET Detectors”
Peter Bruyndonckx, Cedric Lemaître, Dennis Schaart, Marnix Maas, D.J. (jan) van der Laan, Magalie Krieguer, Olivier Devroede and Stefaan Tavernier
Nucl. Instr. Meth, A571 (1-2): 304-307 Feb 1, 2007

“Simulated performance of a small-animal PET scanner based on monolithic scintillation detectors”
D.J. Van der Laan, M.C. Maas, H.W.A.M. de Jong, D. R. Schaart, P. Bruyndonckx , C. Lemaitre and C.W.E. van Eijk
Nucl. Instr. Meth, A571 (1-2): 227-230 Feb 1, 2007

“Towards a continuous crystal APD-based PET detector design”
P. Bruyndonckx, C. Lemaitre, D. Schaart, M. Maas, D.J. van der Laan, M. Krieguer, O. Devroede and S. Tavernier,
Nucl. Instr. Meth, A571 (1-2): 182-186 Feb 1, 2007

“PWO photo-elastic parameter calibration by laser-based polariscope”
A. Ciriaco, F. Davì, M. Lebeau, G. Majni, N. Paone, P. Pietroni, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 570 (2007) 55–60

“Concentration effect on the scintillation properties of sol-gel derived LuBO3 doped with Eu3+ and Tb3+”
C. Mansuy, J-M. Nedelec, C. Dujardin, R. Mahiou,
Optical Materials, Vol 29 (2007) 697-702

“Molecular imaging of small animals PET using Monte Carlo simulations”
S. Branco, S. Jan, P. Almeida (2007)
Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging (34) – supplement 2 – S227, September 2007

“Monte Carlo Simulations Studies in Small Animal PET. Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images”
Branco, S., Jan, S. and Almeida, P. (2007).
Fundamentals, Methods and Applications: Proceedings of the International Symposium CompIMAGE 2006, Taylor & Francis: 111-115.

“A PET imaging system dedicated to mammography”
J. Varela,
Radiation Physics and Chemistry 76 (2007) 347-350

“Long-term stability of the Clear-PEM detector modules”
Pedro Amaral, Peter Bruyndonckx, Bruno Carriço, Miguel Ferreira, Joan Luyten, Rui Moura, Catarina Ortigão, Pedro Rodrigues, José C. Da Silva, Andreia Trindade and João Varela,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 571 (2007) 488–492

“Clear-PEM system counting rates: a Monte Carlo study”
P. Rodrigues, A. Trindade and J. Varela,
Journal of Instrumentation (2007) 2 P01004 1-16

“Performance and quality control of Clear-PEM detector modules”
P. Amaral et al.,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 580 (2007) 1123–1126

“Characterization and quality control of avalanche photodiode arrays for the Clear-PEM detector modules”
Conceição Abreu, Pedro Amaral, Bruno Carriço, Miguel Ferreira, Joan Luyten, Rui Moura, Catarina Ortigão, Pedro Rato, João Varela,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 576 (2007) 19–22

“Development of a new photo-detector readout technique for PET and CT imaging”
F. Powolny, D. Moraes, E. Auffray, M. Dosanjh, P. Jarron, J. Kaplon, P. Lecoq, T.C. Meyer, J. Trummer, S. Velitchko
NIM A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 571, Issues 1–2, 1 February 2007, Pages 329-332

Presentations

“Evaluation of monolithic detector blocks for high- sensitivity PET imaging of the human brain”
P.Rato Mendes, P.Bruyndonckx, J.Navarrete, J.M.Perez, Z.Li
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, (2008). Conference Record, p. 2953-2955.
doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436753

“On the development of heavy and fast scintillation nano-ceramics.”
A.Borisevich, A.Dosovitsky, A.Fedorov, O.Khasanov, M.Korzhik, O. Missevitch, V.Mechinsky, G.Shevchenko.
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Dresden, Germany Oct. 2008. Conference Record N69-7, p. 3533-3535.

“PWO-II Scintillation Crystals for the PANDA Electromagnetic Calorimeter.”
A. Borisevich, A. Derevschikov, W. Döring, V. Dormenev, A. Fedorov, Yu. Goncharenko, V. Kachanov, M. Korzhik, Yu. Melnik, A. Meschanin, O. Missevitch, V. Mochalov, R. Novotny, A. Ryazantsev, P. Semenov, A. Uzunian, A. Vasiliev, A. Yakutin.
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Dresden, Germany Oct. 2008. Conference Record N33-5, p. 2698-2700.

“Respiratory motion in small animal PET using GATE”
S. Branco, S. Jan, P. Almeida
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (2008): 4948-4953

“Respiratory motion in small animal PET using Monte Carlo simulations”
S. Branco, S. Jan, P. Almeida
Poster presentation at the 2008 World Molecular Imaging Congress – Nice – France

“Respiratory motion in small animal PET using Monte arlo simulations”
S. Branco, S. Jan, P. Almeida –
[Abstracts of the Annual Congress of the EANM 2008, Munich, Germany]. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 35(2): S175.

“Probing the Concepts of Photonic Crystals on Scintillating Materials”
M. Kronberger, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 55 (2008) 1102-1106
(Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications, Winston Salem, USA, June 4-8, 2007)

“SSPM Readout of LSO, (Lu-Y)AP:Ce and PWO-II Pixels for PET Detector Modules”
Y. Musienko, E. Auffray, A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, S. Reucroft, J. Swain,
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 55 issue 3 (2008) 1352 – 1356
(Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications, Winston Salem, USA, June 4-8, 2007)

“High sensitivity PET detector design using monolithic scintillator crystals”
P. Bruyndonckx, C. Lemaître, S. Tavernier
Proceedings of European nuclear conference 2007,16-20 September 2007, Brussel, Belgium

“A geometrical calibration method for the PIXSCAN micro-CT scanner”
R. Khoury, A. Bonissent, J. C. Clémens, C. Meessen, E. Vigeolas, M. Billault, C. Morel
(2009). JINST 4 P07016.
Conference : ITBS’2007, 4th International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, Sep 22-28 2007, Milos, Greece

“Simulation of PIXSCAN, a photon counting micro-CT for small animal imaging”
F. Cassol Brunner, R. Khoury, D. Benoit, C. Meessen, A. Bonissent, C. Morel
(2009) JINST 4 P05012.
Conference : ITBS’2007, 4th International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, Sep 22-28 2007, Milos, Greece

“La simulation Monte Carlo en médecine nucléaire”
C. Morel
Comptes-Rendus ACOMEN’07, Médecine Nucléaire 31 (2007)160-164.
Conference : ACOMEN’2007, 9e Conférence internationale de l’Action Concertée en Médecine Nucléaire, Mai 9-10 2007, Nice, France

“Low temperature photoluminescence of pure and doped paratellurite (TeO2) crystals”
I. Dafinei, C. Dujardin, E. Longo, M. Vignati, vol 204 (2007) 1567-1570
Physica Status Solidi A- Applications and Materials Science
Proceeding of 5th International Conference on Porous Semiconductors – Science and Technology, MAR 12-17, 2006, Sitges, SPAIN

“XPAD: A photons counting pixel detector for material sciences and small-animal imaging”
P. Delpierre, S. Basolo, J.-F. Berar, M. Bordesoule, N. Boudet, P. Breugnon, B. Caillot, B. Chantepie, J. C. Clémens, B. Dinkespiler, S. Hustache Ottini, C. Meessen, M. Menouni, C. Morel, C. Mouget, P. Pangaud, R. Potheau, E. Vigeolas
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 572 (1) (2007) 250-253.
Conference : PISA’2006, 10th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, May 21-27 2006, La Biodola, Italy

“Count rate performance study of the Lausanne ClearPET scanner demonstrator”
M. Rey, S. Jan, J. M. Vieira, J. B. Mosset, M. Krieguer, C. Comtat, C. Morel
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 571 (1-2) (2007) 207-210
(Proceedings of the 1st European Conference On Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseilles, France, 9 – 12 May 2006)

“Evaluation of tomographic reconstruction methods for small animal microCT and microPET/CT”
S. Valton, F. Peyrin, P. Delpierre, F. Debarbieux, A. Bonissent, R. Khoury, C. Meessen, C. Morel, D. Sappey-Marinier
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 571 (1-2) (2007) 278-281.
(Proceedings of the 1st European Conference On Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseilles, France, 9 – 12 May 2006)

“Optimization of LSO/LuYAP phoswich detector for small animal PET.Jung”
JH, Choi Y, Chung YH, Devroede O, Bruyndonckx P, Tavernier S.
Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research, A.; 571(3) (2007) 669-675
Proceedings of the 1st European Conference On Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseilles, France, 9 – 12 May 2006)

“Study of multi-pixel Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes as a read-out for PET”
Y. Musienko, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, S. Reucroft, J. Swain, J. Trummer
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 571 (2007) 362-365
(Proceedings of the 1st European Conference On Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseilles, France, 9 – 12 May 2006)

“Properties of LuAP: CE scintillator containing intentional impurities”
A. Petrosyan, M.Derdzyan, M K. Ovanesyan, K P. Lecoq, E. Auffray, J. Trummer, M. Kronberger, C. Pédrini, P. Dujardin, P. Anfre,
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 571 (2007) 325-328
(Proceedings of 1st European Conference On Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseilles, France, 9 – 12 May 2006)
doi:10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.093

“Monte Carlo simulations studies in small animal PET”
Branco,S. Almeida, P. Jan, S. (2007),
International Symposium on Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images (CompIMAGE 2006), 2006 Coimbra PORTUGAL

“Lead Tungstate Scintillator for the Future Particle Physics Detectors”
M.V. Korzhik, A.A. Fedorov, O.V. Missevitch, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq.
Conference Program of IEEE 2008 International Conference, 19-25 October 2008, Dresden Germany. (N40-5)

“YAlO3:Ce Detector Array for Gamma Cameras”
J. Benlloch, A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, O. Missevitch
Conference Program of IEEE 2008 International Conference, 19-25 October 2008, Dresden Germany. (M10-192)

“Clear-PEM: A PET imaging system dedicated to breast cancer diagnostics”
M.C. Abreu, D. Aguiar, E. Albuquerque, F.G. Almeida, P. Almeida, P. Amaral, E. Auffray, P. Bento, P. Bruyndonckx, R. Bugalho, B. Carriço, H. Cordeiro, M. Ferreira, N.C. Ferreira, F. Gonçalves, P. Lecoq, C. Leong, F. Lopes, P. Lousã, J. Luyten, M.V. Martins, et al.
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 571 (2007) 81-84
(Proceedings 1st European Conference On Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseilles, France, 9 – 12 May 2006)

“Impact of instrumentation parameters on the performance of neural network based positioning algorithms for monolithic scintillator blocks”
P. Bruyndonckx, Li Zhi, Cedric Lemaître, J. M. Perez, P. Rato, D. Schaart, M. Maas, D.J. Van der Laan, S. Tavernier
Proceedings of the IEEE nuclear science and medical imaging conference, 28/10 – 3/11, 2007, Hawaii, USA

“First results of XPAD3, a new photon counting chip for X-ray CT-scanner with energy discrimination”
P. Pangaud, S. Basolo, B. Chantepie, J. C. Clemens, P. Delpierre, B. Dinkespiler, M. Menouni, A. Bonissent, F. Debarbieux, C. Morel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Honolulu HI, USA Oct 26-Nov 3 2007,
14-18.

“Monte Carlo Simulations Studies in Small Animal PET using GATE”
S. Branco, S. Jan and P. Almeida (2007).
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record: 3994-3997.

“Design study for the ClearPET/XPAD small animal PET/CT scanner”
M. Khodaverdi, S. Nicol, J. Loess, F. Cassol Brunner, S. Karkar, C. Morel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Honolulu HI, USA Oct 26-Nov 3 2007,
4300-4302.

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Study and Development of the Clear–PEM Trigger and Data Acquisition System”
Pedro Rodrigues,
Doutoramento em Engenharia Física, IST, LIP, December 2007.

“Optical properties of lutetium orthoaluminate scintillation crystals activated with cerium”
M. Derdzyan,
PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Institute for Physical Research, Academy of Sciences of Armenia – 2007

“Design and Evaluation of a Positron Emission Tomograph for Breast Cancer Imaging”
Andreia Trindade,
Doutoramento em Engenharia Física, IST, LIP, December 2007

“Study of a Positron Emission Mammograph”
Julia Trummer
Ph.D. in physics, Technischen Universität Wien Technisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2007

“Etude du tomographe de haute résolution pour petits animaux ClearPET par la méthode de Monte Carlo”
Martin Rey
Ph.D. – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – 2007

“Optical properties of scintillator crystals of lutetium orthoaluminate activated with cerium”
M.V. Derdzyan,
PhD -Yerevan State University 2007

“Piezo-optical characterization of uniaxial crystals by means of laser based photoelasticity: application to pwo scintillators”
Ph. D. Student: Dott. Andrea Ciriaco. AA 2006-2007.
Supervisor: Prof. Giuseppe Majni – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche