Publications

“Estudo da Influência do número de ciclos por projecção no cálculo da fracção de ejecção ventricular esquerda em estudos GATED-SPECT”
L.Vieira, D.Faria, J. Patrina, C. Nunes, D. Sousa, L. Ribeiro, P. Almeida, D. C. Costa
Saúde e Tecnologia #2, (2009), 45-55

“Optimization of 2D Image Reconstruction for Positron Emission Mammography using IDL”
Nuno Oliveira, Nuno Matela, Ricardo Bugalho, Nuno Ferreira, Pedro Miguel Dinis Almeida, Comp. Biol. Med. (2009), 39 (2): pp 119-129

“Depth of interaction resolution of LuAP and LYSO crystals”
J. Trummer, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq,
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 599 (2009) 264-269

“Simulation results of a veto counter for the ClearPEM”
J. Trummer, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq,
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 602 (2009) 614-617

“Scintillating and optical spectroscopy of Al2O3 : Ti for dark matter Searches”
M. Luca, N. Coron, C. Dujardin, H. Kraus, V.B. Mikhailik, M. A. Verdier, P.C. Di Stefano, PCF
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 606 (2009) 545-551

“Experimental characterization of the 192 channel Clear-PEM frontend ASIC coupled to a multi-pixel APD readout of LYSO:Ce crystals”
E. Albuquerque et al.,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 598 (2009) 802–814

“Characterization of avalanche photodiode arrays for the ClearPEM and ClearPEM-Sonic scanners”
R Bugalho, B Carriço, C S Ferreira, M Frade, M Ferreira, R Moura, J Neves, C Ortigão, J F Pinheiro, P Rodrigues, I Rolo, J C Silva, R Silva, A Trindade and J Varela,
2009 JINST 4 P09009

“Experimental characterization of the Clear-PEM scanner spectrometric performance”
R Bugalho, B Carriço, C S Ferreira, M Frade, M Ferreira, R Moura, C Ortigão, J F Pinheiro, P Rodrigues, I Rolo, J C Silva, A Trindade and J Varela,
2009 JINST 4 P10011

“Isochromate fringes simulation by cassini-like curves for photoelastic analysis of birefringent crystals”
D. Rinaldi, P. Pietroni, F. Davì
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 603(2009) 294–300

“Monolithic scintillator PET detectors with intrinsic depth-of-interaction correction”
Marnix C. Maas, Dennis R. Schaart, D. J. (Jan) van der Laan, Peter Bruyndonckx, Cedric Lemaître, Freek J. Beekman and Carel W. E. van Eijk ,
Phys, Med Biol, 54 (2009) 1893-1908

Presentations

“Coincidence imaging with monolithic detector blocks for a human brain PET scanner”
I. Sarasola Martín, P. Rato Mendes, M. Cañadas, P. García de Acilu, J. M. Pérez
2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2669-2673
doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401992

“Development of anthropomorphic phantoms for combined PET-Ultrasound breast elastography imaging”
Jun DANG, Philippe Lasaygues, Dachun Zhang, Stefaan Tavernier, Nicolas Felix, Benjamin Frish, Serge Mensah and Minxi Wan,
Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Orlando, October 2009

“Characterization of the Clear-PEM Breast Imaging Scanner Performance”
E. Albuquerque, et al. (44 authors)
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Orlando, USA, October 25-31 2009, (2009) 3487–3490

“Dual Readout With PWO Crystals and LuAG Crystal Scintillating Fibers”
E. Auffray, D. Abler, P. Lecoq, G. Mavromanolakis,
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume: 57 , Issue: 3 , Part: 2 (2010) 1454 – 1459
(Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications, Jeju Korea, 8-12 June 2009)

“The Clear-PEM Imaging Scanner for Positron Emission Mammography”
E. Albuquerque et al. (44 authors)
In proceedings of ICENES Conference 2009 – Ericeira – Portugal

“Study of the charge sharing effect in the photon-counting pixel detector XPAD3-S”
F. Cassol Brunner, D. Benoit, J.-F. Bérar, J.-C. Clémens, C. Morel
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A. 633 (2011) 111-113.
Conference : iWoRiD’2009, 11th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors, Jun 28-Jul 2 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

“Targeted Image Reconstruction in Positron Emission Mammography”
G. Picado, Nmatela, N. M. Oliveira, P. Almeida,
Oral presentation at the 11th World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (2009) – Munich – Germany

“Development of the XPAD3 X-ray photon counting imager DAQ electronics”
A Dawiec, B. Dinkespiler, P. Breugnon, K. Arnaud, S. Godiot, S. Hustache, K. Medjoubi, J.-F. Bérar, N. Boudet, C. Morel
Conf. Rec. ANIMMA’2009, (2010) IEEE Press.
Conference : ANIMMA’2009, 1st International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications, Jun 7-10 2009, Marseille, France

“The ClearPET/XPAD: development of a simultaneous PET/CT scanner for mice”
S. Nicol, S. Karkar, P. Descourt, C. Morel (2009).
Conf. Rec. ESMI TOPIM’2009, p. 29.
Conference : ESMI TOPIM’2009, Hot Topics in Molecular Imaging 2009: Dual and innovative imaging modalities, Jan 26-30 2009, Les Houches, France

“On-Detector electronics of the Clear-PEM scanner”
E. Albuquerque, F. G. Almeida, P. Almeida, S. Augusto, V. Bexiga, R. Bugalho, B. Carriço, C. S. Ferreira, N. C. Ferreira, M. Ferreira, J. Godinho, F. Gonçalves, C. Guerreiro, C. Leong, P. Lousã, P. Machado, M. V. Martins, N. Matela, R. Moura, P. Neves, N. Oliveira, C. Ortigão, F. Piedade, J. F. Pinheiro, J. Rego, P. Relvas, A. Rivetti, P. Rodrigues, D. N. Sá, J. Sampaio, A. I. Santos, J. C. Silva, M. M. Silva, I. C. Teixeira, J. P. Teixeira, A. Trindade, J. Varela
Poster presentation at the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices – Porto 2009

“Scintillation of Some Germanates and Stannates Doped With Ce3+.”
Borisevitch, A.; Dosovitski, A.; Fedorov, A.; Korzhik, M.; Missevitch, O.
IEEE Trans Nucle. Sci. V56, Iss.4 (2009) 2271-2274.

“Robustness of Machine Learning Algorithms for Gamma Detection in Positron Emission Tomography”
Mateusz Wędrowski, Peter Bruyndonckx, Stefaan Tavernier, ZhiLi, Jun Dang, Pedro Rato Mendes, Jose Manuel Perez and Karl Ziemons,
Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Orlando, October 2009

“LuAG material for dual readout calorimetry at future high energy physics accelerators”
E. Auffray, D. Abler, S. Brunner, B. Frisch, A. Knapitsch, P. Lecoq, G. Mavromanolakis, O. Poppe, A. Petrosyan,
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Orlando, USA, October 25-31 2009, (2009) 2245–2249

“Component-based normalization correction for the Clear-PEM Positron Emission Mammography system”
C. Guerreiro, N. C. Ferreira, R. Bugalho, A. Trindade, N. Matela, M. V. Martins, L. Mendes, P. Almeida, J. Varela
Poster presentation at the IEEE MIC Conference 2009 – Orlando, USA

“High-speed Data Acquisition Electronics for a PEM scanner”
P. Lousa; F. G. Almeida; P. Almeida; A. L. Bastos; V. Bexiga; R. Bugalho; S. Carmona; B. Carrico; C. S. Ferreira; N. C. Ferreira; M. Ferreira; J. Godinho; F. Goncalves; P. Lecoq; C. Leong; P. Machado; N. Matela; R. Moura; P. Neves; N. Oliveira; C. Ortigao; F. Piedade; J. F. Pinheiro; P. Relvas; A. Rivetti; P. Rodrigues; J. Sampaio; A. I. Santos; S. Tavernier; I. C. Teixeira; J. P. Teixeira; N. Pimenta; M. C. Martins; J. C. Silva; A. Trindade; J. Varela
Real Time Conference, 2009. RT ’09. 16th IEEE-NPSS, (2009) 196-200
DOI: 10.1109/RTC.2009.5321874

“Characterization of the Clear-PEM breast imaging scanner performance”
E. Albuquerque; F. G. Almeida; P. Almeida; E. Auffray; J. Barbosa; A. L. Bastos; V. Bexiga; R. Bugalho; C. Cardoso; S. Carmona; J. F. Carneiro; B. Carriço; C. S. Ferreira; N. C. Ferreira; M. Ferreira; M. Frade; F. Gonçalves; C. Guerreiro; P. Lecoq; C. Leong; P. Lousã; P. Machado; M. V. Martins; N. Matela; R. Moura; J. Neves; P. Neves; N. Oliveira; C. Ortigão; F. Piedade; J. F. Pinheiro; P. Relvas; A. Rivetti; P. Rodrigues; I. Rolo; A. I. Santos; J. Santos; M. M. Silva; S. Tavernier; I. C. Teixeira; J. P. Teixeira; J. C. Silva; R. Silva; A. Trindade; J. Varela
2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 3497-3490
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401796

“Factors Influencing Time Resolution of Scintillators and Ways to Improve Them”
P. Lecoq, E. Auffray, S. Brunner, H. Hillemanns, P. Jarron, A. Knapitsch, T. Meyer, F. Powolny, Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume: 57 , Issue: 5 , (2010) 2411 – 2416
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Orlando, USA, October 25-31 2009, (2009) 1880–1885

“Design and construction of the ClearPET/XPAD small animal PET/CT scanner”
S. Nicol, S. Karkar, C. Hemmer, A. Dawiec, D. Benoit, P. Breugnon, B. Dinkespiler, F. Rivière, J.-P. Logier, M. Niclas, J. Royon, C. Meessen, F. Cassol, J.-C. Clémens, A. Bonissent, F. Debarbieux, E. Vigeolas, P. Delpierre, C. Morel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Orlando, USA, October 25-31 2009, (2009) 3311-3314.

“Development of a New Generation of Scintillation Detectors for Remote Control of Fissile Materials and Devices based on Them.”
G. Drobychev, V.G. Baryshevsky, A.A. Fedorov, A.A. Khruschinsky, M.V. Korjik, and O.V. Missevitch.
Proceedings of the Technical Workshop in Response to Chemical, Biological, and Radiological/Nuclear Terrorist Attacks. April 28-30, 2009, Ottawa, Canada, p. 636-651.

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Use of machine learning algorithms for gamma detection in positron emission tomography”
Cedric Lemaïtre
PhD in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 2009

“Characterization of time resolved photodetector systems for Positron Emission Tomography”
Francois Powolny
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2009

“Development and Experimental Study of a Detector Module for Positron Emission Mammography”
Catarina Ortigão,
Doutoramento em Engenharia Física, IST, LIP, November 2009.

“Spectroscopy of fluoride crystals and nanoceramics activated by cerium using synchrotron radiation”
G. Shapochkin
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 2009