Publications

“Effects of photonic crystals on the light output of heavy inorganic scintillators”
Arno Knapitsch; Etiennette Auffray; Christian W. Fabjan; Jean-Louis Leclercq; Xavier Letartre; Radoslaw Mazurczyk; Paul Lecoq
(2011). In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2011. NSS’11. IEEE 994-1001
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154308

“Studies on sampling and homogeneous dual readout calorimetry with meta-crystals”
G Mavromanolakis, E Auffray and P Lecoq
2011 1748-0221 6 P10012 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/6/10/P10012

“A comprehensive and systematic study of coincidence time resolution and light yield using scintillators of different size, wrapping and doping”
E. Auffray, B. Frisch, F. Geraci, A. Ghezzi, S. Gundacker, H. Hillemanns, P. Jarron, T. Meyer, M. Paganoni, K. Pauwels, M. Pizzichemi and P. Lecoq
(2011). In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2011. NSS’11. IEEE. (pp.64-71).

“Quality control and characterization of scintillating crystals for high energy physics and medical application”
D. Rinaldi, M. Lebeau, N. Paone, L. Scalise and P. Pietroni
Chapter of the book “Wide spectra of quality control” – Edited by I. Akian
Intech (2011) ISBN 978-953-307-683-6

“Rare earth fluoride nanoparticles obtained using charge transfer complexes: a versatile and efficient route toward colloidal suspensions and monolithic transparent xerogels”
Chaput, F., Lerouge, F., Tusseau-Nenez, S., Coulon, P.-E., Dujardin, C., Denis-Quanquin, S., … Parola, S.
(2011).. Langmuir, 27, 5555–5561. http://doi.org/10.1021/la105070p (IF:4,45)

“Scintillation properties of Bi 4 Ge 3 O 12 down to 3 K under γ rays.”
Verdier, M.-A., Di Stefano, P. C. F., Nadeau, P., Behan, C., Clavel, M., & Dujardin, C.
(2011) Physical Review B, 84(21), 214306. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.214306 (IF:3,73)

“Evaluation of a PET prototype using LYSO:Ce monolithic detector blocks”
R. Cuerdo, I. Sarasola. P. García de Acilu, J. Navarrete, M. Cañadas, J.C. Oller, J.M. Cela, P. Rato Mendes, L. Romero and C. Willmott
2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conf. Rec., pp.3342-3346, 2011.

“Characterization of the VATA241 front-end ASIC for the BrainPET scanner”
I. Sarasola. R. Cuerdo, J. Navarrete, P. García de Acilu, P. Rato Mendes, L. Romero and C. Willmott
2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conf. Rec., pp.3331-3334, 2011.

“Performance evaluation of a PET detector consisting of an LYSO array coupled to a 4´4 array of large-size GAPD for MR compatible imaging,”
K.J. Hong, Y. Choi, J. Kang, W. Hu, J.H. Jung, B.J. Min, Y.H. Chung, and Carl Jackson,
J. Instrum., vol. 6, pp. P05012, 2011.

“A small animal PET based on GAPDs and charge signal transmission approach for hybrid PET-MR imaging,”
J. Kang, Y. Choi, K.J. Hong, W. Hu, J.H. Jung, Y.S. Huh, and B-T Kim,
J. Instrum., vol. 6, pp. P08012, 2011.

“PET demonstrator for a human brain scanner based on monolithic detector blocks”
I. Sarasola, P. Rato Mendes, P. García de Acilu, M. Cañadas, O. Vela, J.M. Cela, J.C. Oller, L. Nuñez and C. Willmott, J.M. Pérez, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 58, pp.2190-2197, 2011.

“Performance evaluation of a PET demonstrator for PET-MR imaging based on monolithic LYSO:Ce scintillators”
I. Sarasola, R. Cuerdo, J. Navarrete, P. García de Acilu, P. Rato Mendes, J.M. Cela, L. Romero and C. Willmott
JINST 6 C12041, 2011.

“A novel front-end chip for a human PET scanner based on monolithic detector blocks”
I. Sarasola, P. Rato Mendes, R. Cuerdo, P. García de Acilu, J. Navarrete, J. M. Cela, J. C. Oller, L. Romero and J. M. Pérez
JINST 6 C01034, 2011.

“Development of an anthropomorphic breast phantom for combined PET, B-mode ultrasound and elastographic imaging”
Jun Dang , Benjamin Frisch, Philippe Lasaygues, Dachun Zhang, Stefaan Tavernier, Nicolas Felix, Paul Lecoq, Etiennette Auffray, Joao Varela, Serge Mensah, and Mingxi Wan,
IEEE Trans Nucl Science. 58(3), 660-667, 2011

“NEMA NU4-2008 Performance Measurements of Two Commercial Small-Animal PET Scanners: ClearPET and rPET-1”
M. Cañadas, M. Embid, E. Lage, M. Desco, J.J. Vaquero and J.M. Pérez
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 58, pp.58-65, 2011.

“List-Mode Maximum-Likelihood Reconstruction for {ClearPET} System”
Liji Cao, Ricardo Bugalho, Nuno Matela, Monica Martins, Pedro Almedida, Joerg Peter and Joao Verela
ProcWMIC, 2011, Valencia

“Characterization and performance of monolithic detector blocks with a dedicated ASIC front-end readout for PET imaging of the human brain”
P. Rato Mendes, I. Sarasola Martín, M. Cañadas Castro, P. García de Acilu, R. Cuypers, J. M. Pérez and C. Willmott,
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, vol. 633, pp.S33-S35, 2011.

“GATE V6 : a major enhancement of the GATE simulation platform enabling modelling of CT and radiotherapy”
S. Jan, D. Benoit, E. Becheva, T. Carlier, F. Cassol, P. Descourt, T. Frisson, L. Grevillot, L. Guigues, L. Maigne, C. Morel, Y. Perrot, N. Rehfeld, D. Sarrut, D.R. Schaart, S. Stute, U. Pietrzyk, D. Visvikis, N. Zahra, I. Buvat
Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (2011) 881-901

“Validation of a small-animal PET simulation using GAMOS: a Geant4-based framework”
M. Cañadas, P. Arce and P. Rato Mendes
Phys. Med. Biol. 56, pp.273-288, 2011.

“Electronic structure and luminescence mechanisms in ZnMoO4 crystals”
D A Spassky, A N Vasil’ev, I A Kamenskikh, V V Mikhailin, A E Savon, Yu A Hizhnyi, S G Nedilko and P A Lykov
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 23 (2011) 365501

“Cerium-, praseodymium- and terbium-trapped excitons in oxides”
C. Pedrini, A. Belsky, K. Ivanovskikh, A. Petrosyan, R.V. Sargsyan, I. Kamenskikh
Chemical Physics Letters 2011, 515, 258-262

Presentations

“Evaluation of APD and SiPM matrices as sensors for monolithic PET detector blocks”
P. García de Acilu, P. Rato Mendes, M. Cañadas, I. Sarasola, R. Cuerdo, L. Romero and C. Willmott
2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conf. Rec., pp.3300-3304, 2011.

“Développement de détecteurs à pixels hybrides pour le comptage de rayons X : une ouverture vers la tomodensitométrie spectrale”
C. Morel, F. Debarbieux
Conf. Rec. 12ème Colloque de la Société Française des Microscopies, edited by M. Schmutz, 2011, pp. 197-200
Conference : 12ème Colloque de la Société Française des Microscopies, 27 juin -1er juil 2011, Strasbourg, France

“Implementing Geant4 on GPU for medical applications”
H. Perez-Ponce, Z. El Bitar, Y. Boursier, D. Vintache, A. Bonissent, C. Morel, D. Brasse, D. Visvikis, J. Bert (2011) in Conf. Rec. NSS/MIC’2011, IEEE Press, pp. 2703-2707.
Conference: NSS/MIC’2011, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Oct 23-29 2011, Valencia, Spain

“Développement de détecteurs à pixels hybrides pour le comptage de rayons X : une ouverture vers la tomodensitométrie spectrale.”
C. Morel, F. Debarbieux
(2011) in Conf. Rec. 12ème Colloque de la Société Française des Microscopies, edited by M. Schmutz, pp. 197-200.
Conference: 12ème Colloque de la Société Française des Microscopies, 27 juin -1er juil 2011, Strasbourg, France

“Development of ClearPEM-Sonic – a Multimodal Positron Emission Mammograph and Ultrasound Scanner” Valerie Juhan, Olivier Mundler, Pascale Siles and Laurent Tessonnier from Assistance Publique – Hopitaux de Marseille, Etiennette Auffray, Benjamin Frisch and Paul Lecoq from CERN, Liji Cao and Joerg Peter from DKFZ, Ricardo Bugalho, Jorge Neves, Jose Carlos Silva, Rui Silva and Joao Varela from LIP, Philippe Lasaygues and Serge Mensah from Laboratoire de Mecanique et Acoustique, Giacomo Cucciati, Alessio Ghezzi, Marco Paganoni, Marco Pizzichemi and Nicolas Di Vara from University of Milano Biccoca, Nicolas Felix from SuperSonic Imagine as well as Dang Jun and Stefaan Tavernier from Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
Valencia Spain, October 2011, Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2011. NSS’11. IEEE. (pp.2267-2272)

“Artificial Neural Network Based Position Estimation in Positron Emission Tomography”
Mateusz Wędrowski, Peter Bruyndonckx, Stefaan Tavernier, ZhiLi, Karl Ziemons and Bogdan Małkowski.
Poster at the “International conference on medial physics and engineering, Poznan, Poland, September 2011. (only abstract)

“Design and test of a robust multi-channel programmable sensor interface circuit for use in extreme environments”
Kristof Van Cutsem. Wouter De Cock, Stefaan Tavernier, published in proceedings of the Animma 2011, International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation, Measurement Methods and their Applications, June 2011 Ghent.

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Optical and luminescent properties of molibdates under synchrotron radiation excitation in fundamental absorption region”
M. Chugunova
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 2011

“Study of 3D position determination of the interaction point in monolithic scintillator blocks for PET”
Li Zhi
PhD in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 2011

“Développement dune caméra X couleur ultra-rapide à pixels hybrides”
Arkadiusz Dawiec
Ph.D. – Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II – 2011

“Contribution to the design of a multimodal PET/US imager for breast cancer.”
Dang Jun
Ph.D. in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 2011

“Preparation of scintillator and laser garnets with Yb3+ ions and investigation of their optical and structural properties”
A.V. Yeganyan
PhD – Yerevan State University – 2011

“Analisi fotoelastica di cristalli scintillatori: ottimizzazione del campo di indagine locale e studio del comportamento di cristalli rivestiti”
Martina Lavalle. AA 2010-2011
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisors: Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche