Bibliography

Publications

Influence of matrix composition and its fluctuations on excitation relaxation and emission spectrum of Ce ions in (Gd_xY_1-x)₃A_l2Ga₃O₁₂:Ce scintillators
S.Nargelas, Y.Talochka, A.Vaitkevičius, G.Dosovitskiy, O.Buzanov, A.Vasil’ev, T.Malinauskas, M.Korzhik, G.Tamulaitis,
Journal of Luminescence Volume 242, February 2022, 118590,
doi: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2021.118590

A new method for remote detection of ionizing radiation using transient optical absorption
K. Nomeika, Ž. Podlipskas, V. Tamošiūnas, J. Jurkevičius, M. N. Alsamsam, S. Nargelas, R. Aleksiejūnas, M. Korjik, G. Tamulaitis,
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 1029, 2022, 166408,
doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.166408

“HRFlexToT: A High Dynamic Range ASIC for Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography”
D. Sanchez et al.
IEEE Trans. Radiat. Plasma Med. Sci., vol. 6, pp. 51-67
doi: 10.1109/TRPMS.2021.3066426

Image Reconstruction Analysis for Positron Emission Tomography with Heterostructured Scintillators
P. Mohr et al.,
IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, 2022,
doi: 10.1109/TRPMS.2022.3208615.

Influence of Air-annealing on Optical and Scintillation Properties of YAG:Pr,Ca,
M. V. Derdzyan, K. L. Hovhannesyan, S. N. C. Santos, C. Dujardin, A.G. Petrosyan,
Phisica Status Solidi A, First published: 04 November 2022.
doi: 10.1002/pssa.202200571.

(Gd,Ce)2O3-Al2O3-SiO2 scintillation glass
A. Amelina et al.
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 2022. Т. 580. С. 121393.
doi: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2021.121393

Effect of Sintering Additives on the Sintering and Spectral-Luminescent Characteristics of Quaternary GYAGG:Ce Scintillation Ceramics
P. Karpyuk et al.
J. Electron. Mater. 2022. Т. 51. № 11. С. 6481–6491
doi: 10.1007/s11664-022-09885-0

Lanthanoid-doped quaternary garnets as phosphors for high brightness cathodoluminescence-based light sources
M. Korjik et al.
Heliyon. 2022. Т. 8. № 8. С. e10193.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10193

Ultrafast PWO scintillator for future high energy physics instrumentation
M. Korzhik et al.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2022a. Т. 1034. С. 166781.
doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.166781

Towards effective indirect radioisotope energy converters with bright and radiation hard scintillators of (Gd,Y)3Al2Ga3O12 family
M. Korzhik et al.
Nuclear Engineering and Technology. 2022b. Т. 54. № 7. С. 2579–2585.
doi: 10.1016/j.net.2022.02.007

Role of the Dilution of the Gd Sublattice in Forming the Scintillation Properties of Quaternary (Gd,Lu)3Al2Ga3O12: Ce Ceramics
M. Korzhik et al.
Crystals. 2022c. Т. 12. № 9. С. 1196.
doi: 10.3390/cryst12091196

Compositionally Disordered Crystalline Compounds for Next Generation of Radiation Detectors
V. Retivov et al.
Nanomaterials. 2022a. Т. 12. № 23. С. 4295.
doi: 10.3390/nano12234295

Gd3+ content optimization for mastering high light yield and fast GdxAl2Ga3O12:Ce3+ scintillation ceramics
V. Retivov et al.
Journal of Rare Earths. 2022b.
doi: 10.1016/j.jre.2022.09.018

Impact of compositional disorder on electron migration in lutetium–yttrium oxyorthosilicate scintillator
Y. Talochka et al.
Journal of Applied Physics. 2022. Т. 132. № 5. С. 053101.
doi: 10.1063/5.0098905

Transient optical absorption as a powerful tool for engineering of lead tungstate scintillators towards faster response
G. Tamulaitis et al.
J. Mater. Chem. C. 2022. Т. 10. № 25. С. 9521–9529.
doi: 10.1039/D2TC01450E

Tailoring of the Gd–Y–Lu ratio in quintuple (Gd, Lu, Y)3Al2Ga3O12:Ce ceramics for better scintillation properties
D. Kuznetsova et al.
Journal of Applied Physics. 2022. Т. 132. № 20. С. 203104
doi: 10.1063/5.0123385

Publications

Vacancy Defects in Ga₂O₃: First-Principles Calculations of Electronic Structure
Usseinov A.; Koishybayeva Z.; Platonenko A.; Pankratov V.; Suchikova Y.; Akilbekov A.; Zdorovets M.; Purans J.; Popov, A.I.
Materials 2021, 14, 7384
DOI: 10.3390/ma14237384

Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy Insight on Free Volume Conversion of Nanostructured MgAl₂O₄ Ceramics
Klym H.; Karbovnyk I.; Piskunov S.; Popov A.I.
Nanomaterials 2021, 11, 3373
DOI: 10.3390/nano11123373

Evolution of Free Volumes in Polycrystalline BaGa₂O₄ Ceramics Doped with Eu3+ Ions
Klym H.; Karbovnyk I.; Luchechko A.; Kostiv Y.; Pankratova V.; Popov A.I.
Crystals 2021, 11, 1515
DOI: 10.3390/cryst11121515

Band Gap Engineering and Trap Depths of Intrinsic Point Defects in RAlO₃(R = Y, La, Gd, Yb, Lu) Perovskites
Zhydachevskyy Y., Hizhnyi Y., Nedilko S.G., Pankratov V., Suchocki A., Klyui N.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c06573

Exciton interaction with Ce3+ and Ce4+ ions in (LuGd)₃(Ga,Al)₅O₁₂ ceramics
Khanin V., Venevtsev I., Chernenko K., Pankratov V, Rodnyi P., Meijerink A.
Journal of Luminescence, 2021, 237, 118150
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2021.118150

Study of phase composition, photocatalytic activity, and photoluminescence of TiO₂ with Eu additive produced by the extraction-pyrolytic method
Serga V., Burve R., Krumina A., Pankratova V., Popov A.I., Pankratov, V
Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2021, 13, стр. 2350–2360
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.06.029

Thermal annealing and transformation of dimer F centers in neutron-irradiated Al₂O₃ single crystals
Shablonin E., Popov A.I., Prieditis G., Vasil’chenko, E., Lushchik A.
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2021, 543, 152600
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2020.1526001

Scintillation properties and timing performance of state-of-the-art Gd₃Al₂Ga₃O₁₂ single crystals
L. Martinazolli, N. kratochwil, S. Gundacker, E. Auffray
NIM A
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2021.165231

Development of radiation-hard and cost-effective inorganic scintillators for calorimetric detectors based on binary glass compositions doped with cerium – SCINTIGLASS.
V. Dormenev et al.
Submitted to NIM A

Composite fast scintillators based on high-Z fluorescent metal–organic framework nanocrystals
J. Pero et al.
Nature Photonique, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00769-z

“MATRIX16: A 16-Channel Low-Power TDC ASIC with 8 ps Time Resolution”
J. Mauricio et al.
Electronics, 10, pp.1816, 2021.
doi: 10.3390/electronics10151816

“In-vivo treatment verification by TOF-PET for multiple proton fields: a Monte Carlo simulation study”
P. Arce et al.
Radiotheraphy and Oncology, 161, Suppl. 1, S1286, 2021.
doi: 10.1016/S0167-8140(21)08012-9

Advanced Monte Carlo simulations of emission tomography imaging systems with GATE
D. Sarrut, M. Bala, M. Bardiès, J. Bert, M. Chauvin, K. Chatzipapas, M. Dupont, A. Etxebeste, L.M. Fanchon, S. Jan, G. Kayal, A.S. Kirov, P. Kowalski, W. Krzemien, J. Labour, M. Lenz, G. Loudos, B. Mehadji, L. Ménard, C. Morel, P. Papadimitroulas, M. Rafecas, J. Salvadori, D. Seiter, M. Stockhoff, E. Testa, C. Trigila, U. Pietrzyk, S. Vandenberghe, M.-A. Verdier, D. Visvikis K. Ziemons M. Zvolsky and E. Roncali
accepted in Phys. Med. Biol. (2021)

Role of inter- and intraconfigurational transitions of Pr3+ ion in nonequilibrium carrier relaxation in garnet-type scintillators
S. Nargelas, G. Dosovitskiy, M. Korzhik, G. Tamulaitis,
Optical Materials, 111, 110676 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110676

Time and energy resolution with SPACAL type modules made of high-light-yield Ce-doped inorganic scintillation materials: Spillover and background noise effects
G. Dosovitskiy, A. Golutivin, I. Guz, R. Jacobsson, M. Korzhik, V. Mechinsky, Y. Talochka, G. Tamulaitis, A. Schopper, E. Shmanin,
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 999, 165169 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2021.165169

Activator segregation and micro-luminescence properties in GAGG:Ce ceramics
G. Dosovitskiy, V. Dubov, P. Karpyuk, P. Volkov, G. Tamulaitis, A. Borisevich, A. Vaitkevičius, K. Prikhodko, L. Kutuzov, R. Svetogorov, A. Veligzhanin, M. Korzhik,
J. Lumin., 236, 118140 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2021.118140

Multipurpose Ce-doped Ba-Gd silica glass scintillator for radiation measurement
V. Dormenev, A. Amelina, E. Auffray, K.-T. Brinkmann, G. Dosovitskiy, F. Cova, A. Fedorov, S. Gundacker, D. Kazlou, M. Korjik, N. Kratochwil, V. Ladygin, V. Mechinsky, M. Moritz, S. Nargelas, R.W. Novotny, P. Orsich, M. Salomoni, Y. Talochka, G. Tamulaitis, A. Vaitkevicius, A. Vedda, H.-G. Zaunick,
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A, 1015, 165762 (2021).
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2021.165762

CMS MTD collaboration, Test beam characterization of sensor prototypes for the CMS Barrel MIP Timing Detector
R. Abbot et al.,
Journal of Instrumentation, 16, P07023 (2001)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/07/P07023

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

Studies on a PET module prototype for the recovery of Compton events
A. Polesel
Univesity Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 18.03.2021

Publications

Use of non-Gaussian time-of-flight kernels for image reconstruction of Monte Carlo simulated data of ultra-fast PET scanners.
N. Efthimiou, E. Emond, K. Thielemans, S.J. Archibald, C. Cawthorne, C. Tsoumpas
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Physics: 7, 42 (2020)
doi: 10.1186/s40658-020-00309-8

Why ultrafast is ultra-good.
C. Tsoumpas
Featured Article in Physics World 33(6):41-44

Roadmap toward the 10 ps Time-of-flight PET challenge,
P. Lecoq et al.,
2020 Phys. Med. Biol. 65 21RM01

Study of electronic excitation relaxation at cerium ions in Gd3Al2Ga3O12matrix using multipulse transient absorption technique,
S Nargelas, M Korjik, M Vengris, G Tamulaitis,
Journal of Applied Physics 128 (10) (2020), 103104

Ce doped garnet structure crystalline scintillation materials for HEP instrumentation,
M. Korzhik,
J. Inst. 15 (2020) C08001.
DOI 10.1088/1748-0221/15/09/C08001

Transient optical absorption technique for qualification of LYSO:Ce crystals for the CMS Barrel Timing Layer
G.Tamulaitis, S.Nargelas, A.Vaitkevicius, M.Korjik, Y.Talochka, V.Mechinsky, R.Paramatti, I.Dafinei, M.Lucchini, E.Auffray, S.Gundacker , N.Kratochwil, , 29 September,
CMS IN -2020/002 (Available on CMS information server, accessed November 25, 2020)

Exploiting Cross-Luminescence in BaF2 for Ultrafast Timing Applications Using Deep-Ultraviolet Sensitive HPK Silicon Photomultipliers
R. Pots, E. Auffray, S. Gundacker
Front. Phys., 29 October 2020 |
https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.592875

TOF-PET image reconstruction with multiple timing kernels applied on Cherenkov radiation in BGO
N. Eftimiou et al
DOI: 10.1109/TRPMS.2020.3048642

Exploring Cherenkov emission of BGO for TOF-PET
N Kratochwil, E. Auffray, S. Gundacker
(2020) IEEE TRPMS 2020.3030483

Europium concentration effects on luminescent and scintillation performance of Cs0.2Rb0.8Ca1-xEuxBr3 (0≤x≤0.08) crystals
N.V.Rebrova, A.Yu.Grippa, I.A.Boiaryntseva, P.Berastegui, T.E.Gorbacheva, Yu.N.Datsko, A.L.Rebrov, C.Dujardin, R.Calà, L.Martinazzoli, E.Auffray, V.V.Kononets
Journal of Rare Earths Available online as of 28 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jre.2020.08.012

Growth and luminescent properties of new Eu doped RbBa2I5 scintillator
N.V.Rebrova, A.Yu.Grippa, R.Calàb, L.Martinazzoli, E.Auffray, I.A.Boiaryntseva
NIM A, Volume 978, 21 October 2020, 164463
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164463

Improving depth-of-interaction resolution in pixellated PET detectors using neural networks
A. Zatcepin, M. Pizzichemi, A. Polesel, M. Paganoni, E. Auffray, S. I. Ziegler and N.Omidvari
2020 Phys. Med. Biol. 65 175017
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab9efc

Pushing Cherenkov PET with BGO via Coincidence Time Resolution Classification and Correction
N. Kratochwil, S. Gundacker, P. Lecoq, E Auffray
2020 Phys. Med. Biol. 65 115004
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab87f9

Improvement of the timing properties of Ce-doped oxyorthosilicate LYSO scintillating crystals
G. Tamulaitis, E. Auffray, A. Gola, M. Korzhik, A. Mazzi, V. Mechinski, S. Nargelas, Y. Talochka, A. Vaitkevičius, A. Vasil’ev,
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 139 (2020) 109356.
DOI 10.1016/j.jpcs.2020.109356

A simulation study of the time measurement accuracy for the SPACAL type ECAL Module for LHCb Upgrade phase 2
I. Guz, E. Auffray Hillemanns, A. Golutvin, V. Mechinsky, L. Martinazzoli, Y. Talochka, A. Schopper, M. Pizzichemi, M. Korjik, E. Shmanin, D. Kazlou, ,
CERN Document Server. (2020). https://cds.cern.ch/record/2718983

Design study of a “scintronic” crystal targeting tens of picoseconds time resolution for gamma ray imaging: the ClearMind detector
D. Yvon, V. Sharyy, M. Follin, J.-P. Bard, D. Breton, J. Maalmi, C. Morel and E. Delagnes
J. Instrum. 15: P07029. (2020)

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

Oxyde Materials as Efficient, Radiation Tolerant and Fast Scintillator
A. Vaitkevičius
Vilnius University, Lithuania, 11.12.2020

Publications

Implementation and validation of time-of-flight PET image reconstruction module for listmode and sinogram projection data in the STIR library
N. Efthimiou, E. Emond, P. Wadhwa, C. Cawthorne, C. Tsoumpas, K. Thielemans
Physics in Medicine and Biology: 64 035004,
doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaf9b9

The Digital-Analog SiPM Approach: a Story of Electronic and Excess Noise
S. M. Decker, M. Pizzichemi, A. Polesel, M. Paganoni, E. Auffray,S. Gundacker
conference record of IEEE NSS/MIC conference October 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2019, pp. 1-5,
doi: 10.1109/NSS/MIC42101.2019.9059792.

CsPbBr3 Thin Films on the LYSO:Ce Substrate
K.Tomanová, A. Suchá, E. Mihóková, L. Procházková, I. Jakubec, R. M. Turtos, S. Gundacker, E.Auffray, and V.Čuba
IEEE TNS, Vol67 (6) 2020 933-938
doi: 10.1109/TNS.2020.2978581.

Time-of-Flight Computed Tomography a Proof of Principle Study
J. Rossignol, R. M. Turtos, S. Gundacker, D. Gaudreault, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, Y. Berube-Lauziere, R. Fontaine
2020 Phys. Med. Biol. 65 085013
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab78bf

Improvement of timing properties of Ce-doped oxyorthosilicate LYSO scintillating crystals
G. Tamulaitis, E. Auffray, A. Gola, M. Korzhik, A. Mazzi, V.Mechinski, S. Nargelas, Y. Talochka, A. Vaitkevičius, A. Vasil’ev
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids Volume 139, April 2020, 109356
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2020.109356

Experimental time resolution limits of modern SiPMs and TOF-PET detectors with different scintillators, including Cherenkov emission in BGO
S. Gundacker, R. M. Turtos, N. Kratochwil, R. Pots, M. Paganoni, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray
2020 Phys. Med. Biol. 65 025001
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab63b4

On the use of CdSe scintillating nanoplatelets as time taggers for high-energy gamma detection,
R. M. Turtos, S. Gundacker, S. Omelkov, B. Mahler, A. Khan, J. Shaaring, M. Kirm, C. Dujardin, A. Vasiliev, I. Moreels, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq,
Nature partner journal 2D Materials and Applications, npj 2D Mater Appl 3, 37 (2019).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-019-0120-8

Light yield of scintillating nanocrystals under X-ray and electron excitation
R. M. Turtos, S. Gundacker, S. Omelkov, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq,
Journal of Luminescence, Volume 215, November 2019, 116613
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.116613

Towards a metamaterial approach for fast timing in PET: experimental proof-of-concept
R. M. Turtos, S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
2019 Phys. Med. Biol. 64 185018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab18b3.

On light sharing TOF-PET modules with depth of interaction and 157 ps FWHM coincidence time resolution
M Pizzichemi, A Polesel, G Stringhini, S Gundacker, P Lecoq, S Tavernier, M. Paganoni, E. Auffray
2019 Phys. Med. Biol. 64 155008
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab2cb0

Mechanisms of luminescence decay in YAG-Ce, Mg fibers excited by γ-and X-rays
A Belsky, K Lebbou, V Kononets, O Sidletskiy, A Gektin, E Auffray, …
Optical Materials 92, 2019, 341-346
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2019.04.054

Improving light output and coincidence time resolution of scintillating crystals using nanoimprinted photonic crystal slabs
R Pots, M Salomoni, S Gundacker, S Zanettini, V Gâté, E Usureau, D. turover, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Vol 940, 2019, 254-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.026

Irradiation effects on Gd3Al2Ga3O12 scintillators prospective for application in harsh irradiation environments
E Auffray, G Dosovitskiy, A Fedorov, I Guz, M Korjik, N Kratochwill, …
Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 164, 2019, 108365
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2019.108365

Fibre test benches for the characterisation of media for calorimeters with optical readout
E. Auffray et al.
AIDA-2020-NOTE-2019-004.(cds)

Fibre test benches
E. Auffray et al.
AIDA-2020-D14.1.- Geneva : CERN, 2019 AIDA-2020, 14.1

Dual Cherenkov and Scintillation Response to High-Energy Electrons of Rare-Earth Doped Silica Fibers
F. Cova, M. T. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray, N. Chiodini, M. Fasoli, and A. Vedda,
Phys. Rev. Applied 11 (2019) 024036 (cds)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.024036

Interstitial Li+ Controls the UV Transmission and the Radiation Hardness in YAG
M. V. Derdzyan, K.L. Hovhannesyan, Novikov, E. Auffray, A.G. Petrosyan, C. Dujardin
Phys. Status Solidi B 2019, 1800724
DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201800724

High-frequency SiPM readout advances measured coincidence time resolution limits in TOF-PET
S. Gundacker, R. Martinez, M.Paganoni, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
Phys. Med. Biol. 64 055012
DOI: doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aafd52

Garnet Crystal Growth in Non-precious Metal Crucibles
O. Sidletskiy, P. Arhipov, S. Tkachenko, Ia. Gerasymov, D. Kurtsev, V. Jarý, R. Kucerkova, M. Nikl, K. lebbou, E. Auffray
Springer Proc. Phys. 227 (2019) 83-95
DOI://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21970-3_7

Transient Phenomena in Scintillation Materials
G. Tamulaitis, S. Nargelas, A. Vaitkevičius, M. Lucchini, E. Auffray, A. Fedorov, V. Mechinsky, M. Korjik
Springer Proc. Phys. 227 (2019) 19-28
DOI://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21970-3_2

Progress in fabrication of long transparent YAG:Ce and YAG:Ce,Mg single crystalline fibers for HEP applications
O.Sidelskyi et al
CrystEngComm, 2019,21, 1728-1733
DOI: 10.1039/C8CE01781F

On the Structure, Synthesis and Characterization of Ultrafast Blue-Emitting CsPbBr3 Nanoplatelets
K. Tomanova et al
APL Materials 7, 011104 (2019)
DOI: doi.org/10.1063/1.5079300

A High Dynamic Range ASIC for Time of Flight PET with pixelated and monolithic crysta
S. Gómez, D. Sánchez, D. Gascón, J. M. Cela, L. Freixas, R. Graciani, R. Manera, J. Marín, J. Mauricio, J. J. Navarrete, J. C. Oller, J. M. Pérez, P. Rato Mendes, A. Sanmukh, O. Vela
2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
doi: 10.1109/NSS/MIC42101.2019.9059762.

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

Development of an innovative PET Module
G. Stringhini
University Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 20.02.2019

Boosting scintillation based detection
M. Salomoni
University Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 20.02.2019

Publications

A Compact Detector Module Design Based on FlexToT ASICs for Time-of-Flight PET-MR
J.M.Cela, L.Freixas, J.I.Lagares, J.Marín, G.Martínez, J.Navarrete, J.C.Oller, J.M.Pérez, P.Rato-Mendes, I. Sarasola, O. Vela, J.M. Fernández-Varea , D.Gascón, S.Gómez, R.Graciani, J.Mauricio, D.Sánchez, A.Sanuy, O. de la Torre, D.Badia,
IEEE Trans. Radiat. Plasma Med. Sci. 2, pp. 549-553, 2018.
https://doi.org/ 10.1109/TRPMS.2018.2870927

Intrinsic and defect-related luminescence of YAlO3 and LuAlO3 single crystals and films
T. Zorenko, V. Gorbenko, A. Petrosyan, W. Gieszczyk, P. Bilski, Yu. Zorenko
Optical Materials 2018, 86, 376-381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2018.10.029

Dissimilar behavior of YAG:Ce and LuAG:Ce scintillator garnets regarding Li+ co-doping
M.V. Derdzyan, K.L. Hovhannesyan, A.V. Yeganyan, R.V. Sargsyan, A. Novikov, A.G. Petrosyan, C. Dujardin
CrystEngComm,2018, 20 (11), 1520-1526. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ce02194a.

Improved single photon time resolution for analog SiPMs with front end readout that reduces influence of electronic noise
J. Cates, S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, C. Levin,
Phys. Med. Biol. 63 (2018) 185022 (cds)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aadbcd

Excitation Transfer Engineering in Ce‐Doped Oxide Crystalline Scintillators by Codoping with Alkali‐Earth Ions
E. Auffray, M. Korjik, R. Augulis, A. Fedorov, G. Dosovitskiy, L. Grigorjeva, V. Gulbinas, M. Koschan, M.Lucchini, C. Melcher, S. Nargelas, G. Tamulaitis, A. Vaitkevičius, A. Zolotarjovs
Phys. Stat. Sol.a 2018
DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.cern.ch/10.1002/pssa.20170079

Needs, Trends, and Advances in Inorganic Scintillators
C. Dujardin, E. Auffray, E. Bourret-Courchesne, P. Dorenbos, P. Lecoq, M. Nikl , A. N. Vasil’ev, A. Yoshikawa , and R.-Y. Zhu
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, VOL. 65, NO. 8, AUGUST 2018, 1977-1997 (cds)
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2018.2840160

Radiation hardness of Ce-doped sol-gel silica fibers for High Energy Physics application
F. Cova, F. Moretti, M. Fasoli, N. Chiodini, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray, M. T. Lucchini, S. Baccaro, A. Cemmi, H. Bártová, and A. Vedda
Opt. Lett., 43 (4), 903-906 (2018) (cds)
DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.000903

Photonic crystal slabs applied to inorganic scintillators
M. Salomoni; R. Pots; P. Lecoq; E. Auffray; S. Gundacker; M. Paganoni; B. Singh; M. Marshall; V. V. Nagarkar
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, VOL. 65, NO. 8, AUGUST 2018
DOI : 10.1109/TNS.2018.2817362

Scintillation yield of hot intraband luminescence
S. Omelkov, V. Nagirnyi, S. Gundacker, D. Spassky, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, & M. Kirm
J. Lum., 198 (2018) 260-271
DOI : 10.1016/j.jlumin.2018.02.027

Precise rise and decay time measurements of inorganic scintillators by means of X-ray and 511 keV excitation
S. Gundacker, R. M. Turtos, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 891, 21 May 2018, 42-52 (cds)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2018.02.074

Enhancing light extraction of inorganic scintillators using photonic crystals
M Salomoni, R Pots, E Auffray, P Lecoq
Crystals 8 (2), 78, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst8020078

Presentation

A High Dynamic Range ASIC for Time of Flight PET with monolithic crystals
S.S. Gómez Fernández, A. Sanmukh, D. Gascon, D. Sanchez, J. Mauricio, R. Graciani, R. Manera, L. Garrido, L. Freixes, J. Marín, O. Vela, J.M. Fernandez, J.M. Cela, J.J. Navarrete, J.C. Oller, J.M. Perez and P. Rato
Proceedings of Science (TWEPP 2018) 085
DOI: 10.22323/1.343.0085

Petiroc2A: Characterization and Experimental Results
S.Ahmad, J. Fleury, J.-B.Cizel, C.de la Taille, N. Seguin-Moreau, S. Gundacker; E. Auffray-Hillemanns
2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Proceedings (NSS/MIC)
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2018.8824464

Extension of the List-Mode MLEM algorithm for poly-energetic imaging with a Compton camera
B. Mehadji, M. Dupont, Y. Boursier and C. Morel
2018 Conf. Rec. NSS/MIC’2018, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Nov 10-27 2018, Sydney, Australia

Publications

Measurement of non-equilibrium carriers dynamics in Ce-doped YAG, LuAG, and GAGG crystals with and without Mg-codoping,
M.T. Lucchini, O. Buganov, E. Auffray, P. Bohacek, M. Korjik, D. Kozlov, S. Nargelas, M. Nikl, S. Tikhomirov, G. Tamulaitis, A. Vaitkevicius, K. Kamada, A. Yoshikawa,
J. Lumin. 194, 1-7 (2017) (cds)
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.10.005

Calorimeter Designs Based on Fibre-Shaped Scintillators
K. Pauwels, M. Lucchini, A. Benaglia, and E. Auffray
Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies, M. Korzhik and A. Gektin (eds.),
in: Springer Proceedings in Physics, 2017, p231

Development of YAG:Ce,Mg and YAGG:Ce Scintillation Fibers
V. Kononets, K. Lebbou, O. Sidletskiy, Yu. Zorenko, M. Lucchini,
K. Pauwels, and E. Auffray
Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies, M. Korzhik and A. Gektin (eds.), in: Springer Proceedings in Physics, 2017, p114

Optical properties and radiation hardness of Pr-doped sol-gel silica: Influence of fiber drawing process
F. Cova, M. Fasoli, F. Moretti, N. Chiodini, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray, M. Lucchini, I. Veronese, E. d’Ippolito, A. Vedda
J. Lumin. 192 (2017) 661-667 (cds)
DOI : 10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.07.045

Intraband luminescence excited in new ways: Low-power x-ray and electron beams
S. Omelkov, V. Nagirnyi, E. Feldbach, R. Turtos Martinez, E. Auffray, M. Kirm, P. Lecoq,
J. Lumin. 191 (2017) 61-67 (cds)
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.02.001

A comparative study of the time performance between NINO and FlexToT ASICs
I. Sarasola, M. V. Nemallapudi, S. Gundacker, D. Sánchez, D. Gascón, P. Rato, J. Marín, E. Auffray
JINST 12 (2017) P04016 (cds)
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/12/04/P04016

Subpicosecond luminescence rise time in magnesium codoped GAGG:Ce scintillator
G. Tamulaitis, A. Vaitkevičius, S. Nargelas, R. Augulis, V. Gulbinas, M. Nikl, A. Borisevich, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, E. Auffray
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 870 (2017) 25-29 (cds)
DOI:10.1016/j.nima.2017.07.015

Engineering of bulk and fiber-shaped YAGG:Ce scintillator crystals
O. Sidletskiy, (et al.
CrystEngComm 19 (2017) 1001-1007 (cds)
DOI: 10.1039/C6CE02330D

Development of a high resolution module for PET scanners
G. Stringhini, M. Pizzichemi, A. Ghezzi, A. Stojkovic, S. Tavernier, T. Niknejad, J. Varela, M. Paganoni, E. Auffray,
In : 14th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors , Siena, Italy, 3 – 6 Oct 2016,
JINST 12 (2017) C02073-C02073 (cds)
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/C02073

Optical transmission damage of undoped and Ce doped Y3Al5O12Y3Al5O12 scintillation crystals under 24 GeV protons high fluence
E. Auffray, A. Fedorov, V. Dormenev, J. Houžvička, M. Korjik, M. Lucchini, V. Mechinsky, S. Ochesanu,
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 856 (2017) 7-10 (cds)
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2016.09.037

Growth and characterization of Ce-doped YAG and LuAG fibers
A. Djebli, F. Boudjada, K. Pauwels, V. Kononets, G. Patton, A. Benaglia, M. Lucchini, M. Moretti, O. Sidletskiy, C. Dujardin, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray, K. Lebbou
Opt. Mater. 65 (2017) 66-68 (cds)
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2016.09.028

Timing capabilities of garnet crystals for detection of high energy charged particles
M. Lucchini, S. Gundacker, P. Lecoq, A. Benaglia, M. Nikl, K. Kamada, A. Yoshikawa, E. Auffray,
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 852 (2017) 1-9 (cds)
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.008

Commissioning of Fibre Test benches
E. Auffray, M. Lucchini, P. Hobson, F. Moretti, K. Pauwels, A. Vedda, F. Nessi, F. Micheli, G. Dissertori, G. Tamulaitis,
AIDA-2020-MS56.- Geneva : CERN, 2017 AIDA-2020, 56

Fibre test benches for the characterisation of media for calorimeters with optimal readout
E. Auffray, M. Lucchini, P. Hobson, F. Moretti, K. Pauwels, A. Vedda, F. Nessi, F. Micheli, G. Dissertori, G. Tamulaitis,
AIDA-2020-NOTE-2017-004

Development of high-resolution detector module with depth of interaction identification for positron emission tomography
T Niknejad, M Pizzichemi, G Stringhini, E Auffray, R Bugalho, J C Da Silva, A Di
Francesco, L Ferramacho, P Lecoq, C Leong, M Paganoni, M Rolo, R Silva, M Silveira,
S Tavernier, J Varela, C Zorraquino,
NIM A, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.04.080

Publications

Beam test evaluation of electromagnetic calorimeter modules made from proton-damaged PbWO4 crystals
T Adams, P Adzic, S Ahuja, D Anderson, MB Andrews, I Antropov…
Journal of Instrumentation, v. 11, pp.4-12. 2016

Luminescence rise time in self-activated PbWO4 and Ce-doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 scintillation crystals
E. Auffray, R. Augulis, A. Borisevich, V. Gulbinas, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, M.T. Lucchini, V. Mechinsky, S. Nargelas, E. Songaila, G. Tamulaitis, A. Vaitkevičius, S. Zazubovich
Journal of Luminescence, Vol 178, 2016, 54-60
doi:10.1016/j.jlumin.2016.05.015

Free carrier absorption in self-activated PbWO4 and Ce-doped Y3(Al0.25Ga0.75)3O12 and Gd3Al2Ga3O12 garnet scintillators
E. Auffray, M. Korjik, M.T. Lucchini, S. Nargelas, O. Sidletskiy, G. Tamulaitis, Y. Tratsiak, A. Vaitkevičius
Optical Materials, Volume 58, August 2016, Pages 461-465
doi:10.1016/j.optmat.2016.06.040

In-depth study of single photon time resolution for the Philips digital silicon photomultiplier.
Z Liu, S Gundacker, M Pizzichemi, A Ghezzi, E Auffray, P Lecoq, M Paganoni,
2016 Journal of Instrumentation, 11 (06) P06006

Preparation and luminescence properties of ZnO:Ga – polystyrene composite scintillator
H.Buresova, L. Prochazkova, R. Martinez, V. Jary, Eva MiHokova, Alena Beitlerova, R. Pjatkan S Gundacker, E Auffray, P Lecoq, M. Nikl and V. Cuba
Voll. 24, No. 14 | 11 Jul 2016 | OPTICS EXPRESS 15289

Growth of long undoped and Ce-doped LuAG single crystal fibers for dual readout calorimetryOriginal Research Article
V. Kononets, E. Auffray, C. Dujardin, S. Gridin, F. Moretti, G. Patton, K. Pauwels, O. Sidletskiy, X. Xu, K. Lebbou
Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 435, 1 February 2016, Pages 31-36
doi:10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2015.11.024

A new method for depth of interaction determination in PET detectors
M Pizzichemi, G Stringhini, T Niknejad, Z Liu, P Lecoq, S Tavernier, J Varela, M Paganoni and E Auffray
Phys. Med. Biol. 61 (2016) 4679–4698
doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/12/4679

Measurement of intrinsic rise times for various L(Y)SO and LuAG scintillators with a general study of prompt photons to achieve 10 ps in TOF-PET
S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, K. Pauwels and P. Lecoq
Phys. Med. Biol. 61 (2016) 2802–2837
doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/7/2802

Effect of Mg2+ ions co-doping on timing performance and radiation tolerance of Cerium doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 crystals
M. Lucchini, V. Babin, P. Bohacek, S. Gundacker, K. Kamada, M. Niklc, A. Petrosyan, A. Yoshikawa, E. Auffray,
NIM A Volume 816, 21 April 2016, Pages 176–183,
doi:/10.1016/j.nima.2016.02.004

Test beam results of a high granularity LuAG fibre calorimeter prototype
Benaglia, M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, C. Tully, T. Medvedeva, A. Heering, C. Dujardin, V. Kononets, K. Lebbou, N. Aubry, S. Faraj, G. Ferro, P. Lecoq and E. Auffray
JINST 11 P05004, 2016
doi:10.1088/1748-0221/11/05/P05004

Detection of minimum ionizing particles with sub-20 ps timing resolution using L(Y)SO crystals and SiPM readout
Benaglia, S. Gundacker, P. Lecoq, M. T. Lucchini, A. Para, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A, vol. 830, pp. 30, May 2016.

Performance study of Philips digital silicon photomultiplier coupled to scintillating crystals
Z. Liu , M. Pizzichemi , E. Auffray , P. Lecoq , M. Paganoni
2016 JINST 11 P01017

Radiation Tolerance of LuAG:Ce and YAG:Ce Crystals under High Levels of Gamma- and Proton-Irradiation
M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, K. Blazek, S. Ochesanu and E. Auffray
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 586-590
doi:10.1109/TNS.2015.2493347

Measurement of LYSO Intrinsic Light Yield using electron excitation
R. Martinez Turtos, S. Gundacker, M. Pizzichemi, A. Ghezzi, K. Pauwels, E. Auffray, H. Hillemans, P. Lecoq, M. Paganoni
2016 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63 (2) 475-479
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2527738

Alternative geometries for improved light output of inorganic scintillating crystals,
M. V. Nemallapudi, S. Gundacker, R. M. Turtos, M. Vangeleyn, N. Brillouet, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray,
2016 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63 (2) 649-655
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2015.2493347

Light Extraction From Scintillating Crystals Enhanced by Photonic Crystal Structures Patterned by Focused Ion Beam
Pawel Modrzynski; Teodor Gotszalk; Arno Knapitsch; Piotr Kunicki; Paul Lecoq; Magdalena Moczala; Ioannis Papakonstantinou; Etiennette Auffray
2016 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63 (2) 644-648
10.1109/TNS.2015.2494368

Beam test evaluation of electromagnetic calorimeter modules made from proton-damaged PbWO4 crystals.
T Adams, P Adzic, S Ahuja, D Anderson, MB Andrews, I Antropov…
Journal of Instrumentation, v. 11, pp.4-12. 2016

Growth and scintillation properties of praseodymium doped (Lu,Gd)3(Ga,Al)5O12 single crystals
K. Kamada, M. Nikl, S. Kurosawa, Y. Shoji, J. Pejchal, Y. Ohashi, Y. Yokota, A. Yoshikawa, ,
(2016). J. Lumin. 169, 811-815 (2016).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.05.057

Photoelastic Sphenoscopic Analysis of Crystals,
F. Davì, D. Rinaldi, N. Paone, L. Scalise and L. Montalto.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 87(1), 015113, 2016.

Large scale production of photonic crystals on scintillators
Arno Knapitsch, Etiennette Auffray, George Barbastathis, Celine Chevalier, Chih-Hung Hsieh,
Jeong-Gil Kim, Shuai Li, Matthew S. J. Marshall, Radoslaw Mazurczyk, Pawel Modrzynski, Vivek Nagarkar, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Bipin Singh, Alaric Taylor, Paul Lecoq
Proceedings of SCINT2015 13th international conference on Scintillators and their applications, Berkeley, June 2015.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 639-643
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2535328

Limits of Inorganic Scintillating Materials to Operate in a High Dose Rate Environment at Future Collider Experiments
M. Korjik, E. Auffray
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 552-563
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2527701

Space-Time Development of Electromagnetic and Hadronic Showers and Perspectives for Novel Calorimetric Techniques
Benaglia, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, H. Wenzel, A. Para
Proceedings of SCINT2015 13th international conference on Scintillators and their applications, Berkeley, June 2015.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (2) 574 -579
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2527758

Ultrafast emission from colloidal nanocrystals under pulsed X-ray excitation
R. M Turtos, A. Polovitsyn, S. Christodoulou, M. Salomoni, S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, I. Moreels, P. Lecoq and J.Q. Grime;
Submitted to JINST, Published 19 October 2016

State of the art timing in TOF-PET detectors with LuAG, GAGG and L(Y)SO scintillators of various sizes coupled to FBK-SiPMs
S. Gundacker, F. Acerbi, E. Auffray, A. Ferri, A. Gola, M.V. Nemallapudi, G. Paternoster, C. Piemonte and P. Lecoq
JINST 11P08008, 2016
DOI:10.1088/1748-0221/11/08/P08008

Presentations

Characterization of a PET prototype based on monolithic detectors
J.Marín, M.Á.Morcillo, J.Navarrete, J.C.Oller, M.Oteo, J.M.Pérez, P.Rato Mendes, L.Romero, I.Sarasola, O.Vela
2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2016.8069437

Development of a High Resolution Module for PET scanners
Gianluca Stringhini, Marco Pizzichemi, Alessio Ghezzi, Stefaan Tavernier, Tahereh Niknejad, Joao Varela, Paul Lecoq, Marco Paganoni and Etiennette Auffray in the frame of the Crystal Clear Collaboration under the Contract Agreement KM2912/KT/PH/004C
(1) University of Milano Bicocca (2) CERN (3) LIP,
ICTR-PHE 2016 Conference. February 16-16, Geneva, 2016

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

Timing studies on Scintillator – Silicon Photomultiplier based photon detection system.
M. Varun Nemallapudi
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO, Portugal, 2016

Tomographie hybride simultanée TEP/TDM combinant détecteurs à pixels hybrides et modules phoswich à scintillateurs
Margaux Hamonet
PhD in science – Aix-Marseille Université- 2016

Publications

“Luminescence and photothermally stimulated defects creation processes in PbWO4:La3+, Y3+ (PWO II) crystals”
Auffraya, M. Korjikb, S. Zazubovichc,
Journal of Luminescence Volume 168, December 2015, Pages 256–260
doi:10.1016/j.jlumin.2015.08.028

“A study of radiation effects on LuAG:Ce(Pr) co-activated with Ca”
A.G. Petrosyan, K.L. Ovanesyan, M.V. Derdzyan, I. Ghambaryan, G. Patton, F. Moretti, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, C. Dujardin
Journal of Crystal Growth, Volume 430, 15 November 2015, Pages 46-51
doi:10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2015.08.019

“Development of new scintillators for medical applications”
P Lecoq
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A (2016), pp. 130-139
DOI information: 10.1016/j.nima.2015.08.041

“A study of radiation effects on LuAG:Ce(Pr) co-activated with Ca”
A.G. Petrosyan, K.L. Ovanesyan, M.V. Derdzyan, I. Ghambaryan, G. Patton, F. Moretti, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels and C. Dujardin
Journal of Crystal Growth 430, pp.46-51, Nov. 2015

“Conical photonic crystals for enhancing light extraction efficiency from high refractive index materials”
Jeong-Gil Kim, Chih-Hung Hsieh, Hyungryul J. Choi, Jules Gardener, Bipin Singh, Arno Knapitsch, Paul Lecoq, and George Barbastathis
24 Aug 2015 | Vol. 23, No. 17 | DOI:10.1364/OE.23.022730 | OPTICS EXPRESS 22730

“Sub-100 ps coincidence time resolution for positron emission tomography with LSO:Ce codoped with Ca”
M. V. Nemallapudi, S. Gundacker, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray, A. Ferri, A. Gola, C. Piemonte,
Phys. Med. Biol. 60 (2015) 4635–4649

“Assessing the performance under ionising radiation of lead tungstate scintillators for EMcalorimetry in the CLAS12 Forward Tagger”
S. Fegan, E. Auffray, M. Battaglieri, E. Buchanan, B. Caiffi, A. Celentano, L. Colaneri, A. D׳Angelo, R. De Vita, V. Dormenev, E. Fanchini, L. Lanza, R.W. Novotny, F. Parodi, A. Rizzo, D. Sokhan, I. Tarasov, I. ZontaS. Fegan, E. Auffray, M. Battaglieri, E. Buchanan, B. Caiffi, A. Celentano, L. Colaneri, A. D׳Angelo, R. De Vita, V. Dormenev, E. Fanchini, L. Lanza, R.W. Novotny, F. Parodi, A. Rizzo, D. Sokhan, I. Tarasov, I. Zonta
NIM A: Volume 789, 21 July 2015, Pages 101-108

“On the comparison of analog and digital SiPM readout in terms of expected timing performance”
S. Gundacker, E. Auffray , P. Jarron , T. Meyer , P. Lecoq
NDIP2014, Tours et NIMA Volume 787, 1 July 2015, Pages 6-11

“Quality control of the TSV multi-pixel photon counter arrays, and modules for the external plate of EndoTOF-PET ultrasound detector.”
Z Liu, K Doroud, E Auffray, F Ben Mimoun Bel Hadj, D Cortinovis, E Garutti, P Lecoq, M Paganoni, M Pizzichemi, A Silenzi, C Xu, M Zvolsky,
2015 NIM A 787 pp 240-244

“Characterization studies of Silicon Photomultipliers and crystals matrices for a novel time of flight PET detector.”
E Auffray, F Ben Mimoun Bel Hadj, D Cortinovis, K Doroud, E Garutti, P Lecoq, Z Liu, R Martinez, M Paganoni, M Pizzichemi, A Silenzi, C Xu, M Zvolsky,
2015 Journal of Instrumentation, 10 (06) P06009

“Radiation damage effects in Y2SiO5:Ce scintillation crystals under γ-quanta and 24 GeV protons”
E. Auffray, A. Borisevitch, A. Gektin, Ia. Gerasymov, M. Korjik, D. Kozlov, D. Kurtsev, V. Mechinsky, O. Sidletskiy, R. Zoueyski
NIM A: 783, 21 May 2015, Pages 117-120

“DSB: Ce3+ scintillation glass for future particles detectors”
E. Auffray, N. Akchurin, A. Benaglia, A. Borisevich, C. Cowden, J. Damgov, V. Dormenev, C. Dragoiu, P. Dudero, M. Korjik, D. Kozlov, S. Kunori, P. Lecoq, S.W. Lee, M. Lucchini, V. Mechinsky and K. Pauwels
Journal of Physics 587(1) p.012062, Feb. 2015

“Modeling of x-ray excited luminescence intensity dependence on the nanoparticle size,”
V. Vistovskyy, Y. Chornodolskyy, A. Gloskovskii, S. Syrotyuk, T. Malyi, M. Chylii, P. Zhmurin, A. Gektin, A. Vasil’ev, and A. Voloshinovski,
Radiation Measurements, 2016. Available online 19 December 2015. DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.12.010

“Effect of the activator impurity on the scintillation yield in alkali halide crystals”
A. Gektin, S. Gridin, S. Vasyukov, A. Belsky, A. Vasil’ev, and N. Shiran.
Physica Status Solidi (B): Basic Research, 252(2):380–385, 2015. DOI: 10.1002/pssb.201451399

“Emission spectrum of intraband luminescence for single parabolic band under excitation of wide-band-gap insulators by ionizing radiation and particles”
A. N. Vasil’ev, R. V. Kirkin
Physics of Wave Phenomena, v. 23., issue 3, pp. 186-191, July 2015, DOI: 10.3103/S1541308X15030048

“Cation influence on exciton localization in homologue scheelites”
R. Laasner, V. Nagirnyi, S. Vielhauer, M. Kirm, D. Spassky, V. Sirutkaitis, R. Grigonis, and A.N. Vasil’ev
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, v. 27, p.385501, 2015. DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/38/385501

“New detecting techniques for a future calorimetry”
E.Auffray, O.Buganov, A.Fedorov, M.Korjik, P.Lecoq, G.Tamulaitis, S.Tikhomirov, A.Vasil’ev
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, v. 587, p. 012056 (2015), doi:10.1088/1742-6596/587/1/012056

“Effect of the activator impurity on the scintillation yield in alkali halide crystals”
A. Gektin, S. Gridin, S. Vasyukov, A.Vasil’ev, A. Belsky, N. Shiran
Phys. Status Solidi B 252, No. 2, pp. 380-385 (2015) / DOI 10.1002/pssb.201451399

“Potential of Non-Linear Optical Phenomena for Fast Timing in Detectors of Ionizing Radiation “
M. Korjik, E. Auffray, O. Buganov, A. Fedorov, S. Nargelas, O. Siidletskiy, G. Tamulaitis, S. Tikhomirov, A. Vaitkevicius,
Conference Record N3D1-4, Nuclear Science Symposium -Medical Imaging Conference 2015, 1-7 November, San Diego, USA

“Performance of the FlexToT v2 ASIC on the readout of different detector designs for PET”
P. Rato-Mendes et al,
2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, USA, November 2015.

“On the Bertin Surfaces for Photoelastic Crystals”
F. Davì,
J. of the Optical Society of America A, 32(12), 2323-2337, Dec. 2015.

“Application of two-photon absorption in PWO scintillator for fast timing of interaction with ionizing radiation”
E.Auffray, O.Buganov, M.Korjik, A.Fedorov, S.Nargelas, G.Tamulaitis, S. Tikhomirov, A.Vaitkevičius,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, A804, 194–200 (2015).

“Structural, mechanical and light yield characterisation of heat treated LYSO:Ce single crystals for medical imaging application”
F. Davì, E. Auffray, G. Barucca, R. Chipaux, C. Cecchi, P. Mengucci, D. Rinaldi, E. Santecchia.
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 78, 110-116, 2015.

“Mechanical and optical properties of anisotropic single-crystal prisms”
F.Davì and D. Rinaldi.
J. of Elasticity, 120 (2), p.197-224, 2015.

“Enhanced Transparency through Second Phase Crystallization in BaAl 4 O 7 Scintillating Ceramic”
Boyer, M., Alahraché, S., Genevois, C., Licheron, M., Lefevre, F.-X., Castro, C., … Allix, M.
(2015). Crystal Growth & Design, acs.cgd.5b01374. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b01374 Accepté (IF:4,89)

“Epitaxial growth of gadolinium and lutetium-based aluminum perovskites thin films for X-rays micro-imaging applications. ”
Riva, F., Douissard, P.-A., Martin, T., Carlà, F., Zorenko, Y., & Dujardin, C.).
(2015). CrystEngComm. http://doi.org/10.1039/C5CE01938A Accepté (IF:4,03)

“Modelling energy deposition in nanoscintillators to predict the efficiency of the X-ray-induced photodynamic effect. ”
Bulin, A.-L., Vasil ’ev, A., Belsky, A., Amans, D., Ledoux, G., & Dujardin, C.
(2015). Nanoscale, 7, 5754–5751. http://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr07444k (IF:7,39)

“Kinetic Model of Energy Relaxation in CsI:A (A = Tl and In) Scintillators. ”
Gridin, S., Belsky, A., Dujardin, C., Gektin, A., Shiran, N., & Vasil ’ev, A.
(2015). J. Phys. Chem. C, 119, 20578–20590. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05627 (IF:4,77)

“Growth of Ce-doped LGSO fiber-shaped crystals by the micro pulling down technique. ”
(2015). Kononets, V., Benamara, O., Patton, G., Dujardin, C., Gridin, S., Belsky, A., … Lebbou, K.
Journal of Crystal Growth, 412(24), 95–102. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2014.11.036 (IF:1,70)

“Low-absorption, multi-layered scintillating material for high resolution real-time X-ray beam analysis”
Pereira, A., Martin, T., Levinta, M., & Dujardin, C.
(2015). Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3, 4954–4959. http://doi.org/10.1039/c5tc00121h (IF:4,69)

“A study of radiation effects on LuAG:Ce(Pr) co-activated with Ca. ”
Petrosyan, A. G., Ovanesyan, K. L., Derdzyan, M. V., Ghambaryan, I., Patton, G., Moretti, F., … Dujardin, C.
(2015). Journal of Crystal Growth, 430, 46–51. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2015.08.019 (IF:1,70)

“Role of Optical Fiber Drawing in Radioluminescence Hysteresis of Yb-Doped Silica. ”
Veronese, I., De Mattia, C., Fasoli, M., Chiodini, N., Cantone, M. C., Moretti, F., … Vedda, A
(2015). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015, 119(27), 15572–15578. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b04987 (IF:4,77)

“Fast-neutron induced background in LaBr3:Ce detectors”
J. Kiener, V. Tatischeff, I. Deloncle, N. de Séréville, P. Laurent, C. Blondel, M. Chabot, R. Chipaux, A. Coc, S. Dubos, A. Gostojić, N. Goutev, C. Hamadache, F. Hammache, B. Horeau, O. Limousin, S. Ouichaoui, G. Prévot, R. Rodríguez-Gasén, i, M.S. Yavahchova,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 798 (2015) 152–161

“Luminescence properties of Na 3 LuSi 3 O 9 :Ce 3+ as a potential scintillator material”
Zhou, J., Pan, F., Zhong, J., Liang, H., Su, Q., Moretti, F., … Dujardin, C.
(2015). RSC Adv., 5(124), 102477–102480. http://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA21880B (IF:3,84)

“Deep traps can reduce memory effects of shallower ones in scintillators”
Moretti, F., Patton, G., Belsky, A., Petrosyan, A. G., & Dujardin, C.
(2015). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. http://doi.org/10.1039/C5CP05711F Accepté (IF:4,49)

“Directionally solidified Eu doped CaF2/Li3AlF6 eutectic scintillato for neutron detection.”
K. Kamada, K. Hishinuma, S. Kurosawa, Y. Shoji, J. Pejchal, Y. Ohashi, Y. Yokota, A. Yoshikawa,
Optical Materials 50 (2015) 71–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2015.06.004

“Growth of Nd doped (Lu, Gd)3(Ga, Al)5O12 single crystal by the micropulling down method and their scintillation properties.”
K. Kamada, S. Kurosawa, A. Yamaji, Y. Shoji, J. Pejchal, Y. Ohashi,Y. Yokota, A. Yoshikawa
Optical Materials 41 (2015) 32–35 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2014.10.007

“Luminescence and scintillation properties of Ce doped SrHfO3 based eutectics.”
K. Kamada, S. Kurosawa, Y. Shoji, J. Pejchal, Y. Ohashi, Y. Yokota, A. Yoshikawa,
Optical Materials 41 (2015) 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2014.10.010

“Alkali earth co-doping effects on luminescence and scintillation properties of Ce doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 scintillator.”
K. Kamada, M. Nikl, S. Kurosawa, A. Beitlerova, A. Nagura, Y. Shoji, J. Pejchal, Y. Ohashi, Y. Yokota, A.
Optical Materials 41 (2015) 63–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2014.10.008

“A method to stabilize the temperature dependent performance of GAPD arrays using their characteristics,”
Y. Huh, Y. Choi, J.H. Jung, and J. Jung,
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A., vol. 772, pp. 83-88, 2015.

“Development of PET/MRI with insertable PET for simultaneous PET and MR imaging of human brain,”
J.H. Jung, Y. Choi, J. Jung, S. Kim, H.K. Lim, K.C. Im, C.H. Oh, H.-W. Park, K.M. Kim, and J.G. Kim,
Med. Phys., vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 2354-2363, 2015.

“Signal transmission with long cable for design of PET detector for hybrid PET-MRI,”
K.B. Kim, Y. Choi, J. Kang, J.H. Jung, and W. Hu,
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 2010-2016, 2015.

“Mechanical and optical properties of anisotropic single-crystal prisms”
F. Daví, D. Rinaldi
Journal of Elasticity August 2015, Volume 120, Issue 2, pp 197-224 (2015)

“Inspection of birefringent media by photoelasticity: from diffuse light polariscope to laser conoscopic technique”
Luigi Montalto, Nicola Paone, Daniele Rinaldi, and Lorenzo Scalise
Optical Engineering 54(8), 081210 (2015)

“Structural, mechanical and light yield characterisation of heat treated LYSO:CE single crystals for medical imaging applications”
P. Mengucci, G. André , E. Auffray , G. Barucca , C. Cecchi, R. Chipaux , A. Cousson , F. Davì , N. Di Vara , D. Rinaldi , E. Santecchia
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 785 (2015) 110–116

“A photoelastic measurement system for residual stress analysis in scintillating crystals by conoscopic imaging”
L. Montalto, N. Paone, L. Scalise, and D. Rinaldi
Review of Scientific Instruments 86, 063102 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4921870

“Development of a high resolution PET module for the next generation of the ClearPEM scanner”
M. Pizzichemia, G. Stringhinia, P. Lecoqb, Z. Liua, T. Niknejadc, M. Paganonia, S. Tavernierc, J. Varelac, E. Auffray
IEEE NSS- submitted San diego 2015

“A SiPM-based PET-ToF demonstrator featuring a highly integrated readout and DAQ system”
Ricardo Bugalho, Luis Ferramacho, Agostino Di Francesco, Carlos Leong, Tahereh Niknejad, Manuel Dionísio Rolo, José C. Silva, Rui Silva, Miguel Silveira, Stefaan Tavernier, Joao Varela, Carlos Zorraquino,
(1) LIP, Lisbon, Portugal, (2) PETsys Electronics, Lisbon, Portugal, (3) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, submitted IEEE San Diego 2015

“Response of LYSO: Ce scintillation crystals to low energy gamma-rays. “
KG Afanaciev, AM Artikov, VY Baranov, MA Batouritski, JA Budagov,…
Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters 12 (2), 319-324, 2015

“Application of two-photon absorption in PWO scintillator for fast timing of interaction with ionizing radiation.”
E Auffray, O Buganov, M Korjik, A Fedorov, S Nargelas, G Tamulaitis, …
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators.

“Two Photon Absorption in Scintillating Crystals as a Prospective Process for Timing Measurements in Ultrafast Ionizing Radiation Detectors Inorganic Scintillators and Their Applications,”
G. Tamulaitis, E. Auffray, O. Buganov, M. V. Korjik, A. A. Fedorov, S. Nargelas, S. A. Tikhomirov, A. Vaitkevicius,
SCINT2015, 7-12 June 2015, Berkeley, USA

“Experimental access to Transition Distribution Amplitudes with the PANDA experiment at FAIR.”
BP Singh, W Erni, I Keshelashvili, B Krusche, M Steinacher, B Liu…
The European Physical Journal A 51(8)1-19, 2015.

Presentations

“The ClearPET/XPAD prototype: development of a simultaneous PET/CT scanner for mice. ”
M. Hamonet, M. Dupont, T. Fabiani, F. Cassol, Y. Boursier, A. Bonissent, F. Debarbieux, L. Bidaut, C. Morel (2015) in Conf. Rec. NSS/MIC’2015, IEEE Press.
Conference: NSS/MIC’2015, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Oct 31-Nov 7 2015, San Diego, California, USA

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Développement de la tomographie spectrale intravitale basée sur la caméra à pixels hybrides XPAD3”
Carine Kronland-Martinet
PhD in science – Aix-Marseille Université- 2015

“Detectores monolíticos y sensores compatibles con altos campos magnéticos para tomografía por emisión de positrons”
Iciar Sarasola Martín
PhD in Electronics Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2015.

“Single Photon Emission mammography with Convergent Collimators”
Ricardo Miguel Ferreira Capote,
Doutoramento em Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica – Universidade de Lisboa (2015)

“Sviluppo ed ottimizzazione di tecniche fotoelastiche per la caratterizzazione e l’analisi tensionale di cristalli scintillatori”
Pier Paolo Natali. AA 2014-2015
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche

“Analisi fotoelastica di fibre di cristalli scintillatori: approccio alla tecnica index maching”
Alessandro D’Intino. AA 2014-2015
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisor: Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche

Publications

“Review on photonic crystal coatings for scintillators”
A. Knapitsch, P. Lecoq,
International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 29 (2014) 1430070 (31 pages)

“Influence of Depth of Interaction upon the Performance of Scintillator Detectors”
M. S. Brown, S. Gundacker, A. Taylor, C. Tummeltshammer, E. Auffray, P. lecoq, and I. Papakonstatinou,
PLos ONE, vol. 9,no. 5, 2014. e98177

“Photoluminescence and excited states dynamics in PbWO4:Pr3+ crystals”
E. Auffray, M. Korjik, T. Shalapska, S. Zazubovich
Journal of Luminescence, Volume 154, October 2014, Pages 381-386

“Development of EndoTOFPET-US, a multi-modal endoscope for ultra-sound and time of flight positron emission tomography.”
M. Pizzichemi,
2014 Journal of Instrumentation 9 02 C02002.

“Development of ClearPEM-Sonic, a multimodal mammography system for PET and Ultrasound.”
G Cucciati, E Auffray, R Bugalho, L Cao, N Di Vara, F Farina, N Felix, B Frisch, A. Ghezzi, V Juhan, D Jun, P Lasaygues, P Lecoq, S Mensah, O Mundler, J Neves, M. Paganoni, J Peter, M Pizzichemi, P Siles, JC Silva, R Silva, S Tavernier, L Tessonnier,J Varela,
2014 Journal of Instrumentation 9 (03), C03008

“Ce-doped LuAG single-crystal fibers grown from the melt for high-energy physics”
X. Xu, K. Lebbou, F. Moretti, K. Pauwels, P. Lecoq, E. Auffray and C. Dujardin
Acta Materialia 67, pp.232-238, April 2014.

“Time resolution deterioration with increasing Crystal length in aTOF-PETsystem”
S. Gundacker, A.Knapitsch, E.Auffray, P.Jarron, T.Meyer, P.Lecoq
NIM A Volume 737, 11 February 2014, Pages 92-100

“Radiation Damage of Oxy-Orthosilicate Scintillation Crystals Under Gamma and High Energy Proton Irradiation”
E. Auffray; A. Fedorov; M. Korjik; M. Lucchini; V. Mechinski; N. Naumenko; A. Voitovich
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 61 (2014) 495-500

“Study of the Angular Distribution of Scintillation Photons”
G. Fornaro, K. Pauwels, A. Ghezzi, A. Knapitsch, P. Modrzynski, M. Pizzichemi, P. Lecoq and E. Auffray
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 61 (1), pp.456-461, Feb. 2014.

“PhenoPET: A dedicated PET Scanner for Plant Research based on digital SiPMs (DPCs)”
M. Streun, S. Beer, J. Daemen, R. Dorscheid, A. Erven, L. Jokhovets, L. Meessen, N. B. Mekala, O. Mülhens, H. Nöldgen, M. Pap, C. Peters, M. Ramm, S. Reinartz, J. Scheins, N. Schramm, B. Zwaans, G. Kemmerling, Y. Hämisch, C. Degenhardt, S. Jahnke, U. Schurr, S. van Waasen
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE, 9 Nov 2014 – 15 Nov 2014

“Defect-engineering in Ce-doped aluminum garnet single crystal scintillators”
M. Nikl, K. Kamada, V. Babin, J. Pejchal, K. Pilarova, E. Mihokova, A. Beitlerova, K. Bartosiewicz, S. Kurosawa, A. Yoshikawa
Crystal Growth Design 14, 4827-4833 (2014). dx.doi.org/10.1021/cg501005s

“Radioluminescence Sensitization in Scintillators and Phosphors: Trap Engineering and Modeling. ”
Moretti, F., Patton, G., Belsky, A., Fasoli, M., Vedda, A., Trevisani, M., … Dujardin, C.
(2014). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(18), 9670–9676. http://doi.org/10.1021/jp501717z (IF:4,77)

“Light yield sensitization by X-ray irradiation of the BaAl 4 O 7 :Eu 2+ ceramic scintillator obtained by full crystallization of glass. ”
Patton, G., Moretti, F., Belsky, A., Al Saghir, K., Chenu, S., Matzen, G., … Dujardin, C.
(2014). Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16(45), 24824–24829. http://doi.org/10.1039/C4CP04064C (IF:4,49)

“Ce-doped LuAG single-crystal fibers grown from the melt for high-energy physics. ”
Xu, X., Lebbou, K., Moretti, F., Pauwels, K., Lecoq, P., Auffray, E., & Dujardin, C.
(2014). Acta Materialia, 67, 232–238. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2013.12.040 (IF:4,46)

“Response of Inorganic Scintillators to Neutrons of 3 and 15 MeV Energy”
M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels, M. Pizzichemi, R. Chipaux, F. Jacquot, H. Mazué, H. Wolff, P. Lecoq and E. Auffray,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 61 (2014) 472 478.

“Development of a high-density position decoder circuit for GAPD-based PET with a large number of readout channels,”
J.H. Jung, Y. Choi, J. Jung, and S. Kim,
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A., vol. 741, pp. 117-123, 2014.

“Radiation Damage of Oxy-Orthosilicate Scintillation Crystals Under Gamma and High Energy Proton Irradiation”
E Auffray, A Fedorov, M Korjik, M Lucchini, V Mechinski, N Naumenko, ..
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on 61 (1), 495-500, 2014

“Comparative Study of Damage Effects Induced by Gamma and High Energy Protons Irradiation in YAP:Ce, YAG:Ce and DSB:Ce “
E. Auffray, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, D. Kozlov, M. Lucchini, V. Mechinsky, K. Pauwels,
Scintillating Materials // IEEE2014, N55-8, 8-15 November 2014, Seattle, USA.

“GAMOS: A framework to do Geant4 simulations in different physics fields with a user-friendly interface”
P. Arce et al.,
Nucl. Inst. Meth. A, vol. 735, pp. 304-313, 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.09.036

“Performance of the FlexToT time based PET readout ASIC for depth of interaction measurements”
J. Trenado et al.,
PoS (TIPP2014) 241, 2014.

“Development of ClearPEM-Sonic, a multimodal mammography system for PET and Ultrasound.”
G. Cucciati, E. Auffray, R. Bugalho, L. Cao, N. Di Vara, F. Farina, N. Felix, B. Frisch, A. Ghezzi, V. Juhan, D. Jun, P. Lasaygues, P. Lecoq, S. Mensah, O. Mundler, J. Neves, M. Paganoni, J. Peter, M. Pizzichemi, P. Siles, J.C. Silva, R. Silva, S. Tavernier, L. Tessonnier, J. Varela.
2014 JINST 9 C03008 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/03/C03008

“The mechanism of luminescence of BaF2 nanoparticles upon high-energy excitation”
V.V. Vistovskyy, A.V. Zhyshkovych, O.O. Halyatkin, N.E. Mitina, A.S. Zaichenko, P.A. Rodnyi, A.N. Vasil’ev, A.V. Gektin, A.S. Voloshinovskii,
Journal of Applied Physics 116, 054308 (2014); doi: 10.1063/1.4892112

“Picosecond transient absorption rise time for ultrafast tagging of the interaction of ionizing radiation with scintillating crystals in high energy phy sics experiements”
E.Auffray, O. Buganov, A.Fedorov, M.Korjik, V.Mechinsky, A.Tikhomirov, A.Vasil’ev, and P.Lecoq
JINST 9, 07017 (2014); doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/07/P07017

“Energy transfer in solid solutions ZnxMg1-xWO4”
D. Spassky, S. Omelkov, H. Mӓgi, V. Mikhailin, A. Vasil’ev, N. Krutyak, I. Tupitsyna, A. Dubovik, A. Yakubovskaya, A. Belsky
Optical Materials 36 (2014) 1660-1664, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2013.12.039

“Excitonic and activator recombination channels in binary halide scintillation crystals”
S. Gridin, A.N. Vasil’ev, A. Belsky, N. Shiran, A. Gektin
Phys. Status Solidi B, 251 (2014) 942-949, DOI:10.1002/pssb.201350234

“Scintillation Efficiency Improvement by Mixed Crystal Use”
Gektin, A.V., Belsky, A.N., Vasil’ev A.N.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 61 (2014) 262-270, available online 5 September 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2277883

“Multiscale Approach to Estimation of Scintillation Characteristics”
Andrey N. Vasil’ev and Aleksandr V. Gektin
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 61 (2014) 235-245, accepted August 28, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2282117

“Can transient phenomena help improving time resolution in scintillators?”
Paul Lecoq, Mikaeel Korzhik, and Andrey Vasil’ev,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 61 (2014) 229-234, accepted August 09, 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2282232

Presentations

“A Photoelasticity measurement set-up for the assessment of residual stresses in scintiallating crystals”
L. Montalto, L. Scalise, D. Rinaldi, N. Paone.
Proceeding III Congresso Nazionale Del Coordinamento Della Meccanica Italiana (2014)

“Asymmetric Data Acquisition System for an Endoscopic PET-US Scanner”
Carlos Zorraquino. Ricardo Bugalho, Manuel Rolo, Jose C. Silva, Viesturs Vecklans, Rui Silva, Catarina Ortigão, Jorge A. Neves, Stefaan Tavernier, João Varela.
19the Real time conference, May 26-30, 2014, Nara Japan, (published in conference records

“Performance Evaluation of a PET/MR Detector Based on the ClearPEM Technology”
Jorge A. Neves, Ricardo Bugalho, Catarina Ortiga ̃o, Rui Silva, Jose ́ C. Silva, Rolf Gruetter, Stefaan Tavernier, Joa ̃o Varela
IEEE NSS-MIC conference, Seattle, November 2014, published in proceedings.

“A Compact Detector Module for Time of Flight PET and the Associated DAQ system”
Ricardo Bugalho, Katayoun Doroud, Agostino Di Francesco, Jorge Neves, Tahereh Niknejad, Catarina Ortigão, Manuel Dionísio Rolo, José C. Silva, Rui Silva, Stefaan Tavernier, Viesturs Veckalns, Carlos Zorraquino, Joao Varela,
IEEE NSS-MIC conference, Seattle, November 2014, published in proceedings.

“EndoTOFPET-US: Commissioning of a Multi-Modal Endoscope for Ultrasound and Time od Flight PET”
By Joao Varela “on behalf of the endotof PET collaboration)
IEEE, NSS-MIC November 2014, Seattle , to be published in conference record

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Evolution of the CMS ECAL Performance and R&D Studies for Calorimetry Options at High Luminosity LHC”
Marco Lucchini
Univesity Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 2014

“Study of time profiles of heavy scintillating crystals”
Nicolas di Varra
Univesity Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 2014

“Time resolution in scintillator based detectors for positron emission tomography”
Stefan Gundacker,
PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2014.

“Tomographie spectrale à comptage de photons : développement du prototype PIXSCAN et preuve de concept”
Mathieu Dupont
PhD in science – Aix-Marseille Université- 2014

Publications

“ClearPEM, a PET dedicated to the breast”
Médecine Nucléaire
Frisch, B., Auffray, E., & Lecoq, P.
(2013)., 37(10), 555-560.

“A phase stability study in the Lu2O3-Al2O3 system”
J. Crystal Growth
A.G.Petrosyan, V.Popova, V.L. Ugolkov, D.P. Romanov, K.L. Ovanesyan
2013, 377, 178–183. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.04.054.

“Technical design report for the PANDA (AntiProton Annihilations at Darmstadt) Straw Tube Tracker.”
W Erni, I Keshelashvili, B Krusche, M Steinacher, Y Heng, Z Liu, H Liu, …
The European Physical Journal A 49 (2), 1-104, 2013.

“Combining endoscopic ultrasound with Time-Of-Flight PET: The EndoTOFPET-US Project”
Frisch, B., on behalf of the EndoTOFPET-US Collaboration.
(2013). Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 732, 577-580.

“The impact of proton induced radioactivity on the LSO:Ce, YSO:Ce scintillation detectors”
E. Auffray; A. Fedorov; M. Korjik; M. Lucchini; V. Mechinski
2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2013 NSS/MIC)
Year: 2013 Pages: 1 – 5,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829513

“Light yield, angular distribution and coincidence time resolution measurements to improve scintillator simulation models”
A. Knapitsch, E. Auffray, G.A. Fornaro, S. Gundacker, K. Pauwels, P. Lecoq Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record 60 (5), pp.1-4, Oct. 2013
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829524

“Differential-readout: The technique to optimise timing in a monolithic MPPC array”
K. Doroud, E. Auffray, P. Jarron, T. Meyer, P. Lecoq
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 717, 21 July 2013, Pages 5-10

“SiPM time resolution: From single photon to saturation”
Gundacker, S., Auffray, E., Di Vara, N., Frisch, B., Hillemanns, H., Jarron, P., Lang, B., Meyer, T., Mosquera-Vazquez, S., Vauthey, E., & Lecoq, P. (2013). Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 718, 569-572.

“Time of flight positron emission tomography towards 100ps resolution with L(Y)SO: an experimental andtheoretical analysis”
S. Gundacker;_ E. Auffray, B. Frisch, P. Jarron, A. Knapitsch, T. Meyer, M. Pizzichemi and P. Lecoq
2013 JINST 8 P07014, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/07/P07014

“On the concept of system to detect unclaimed inclusions of fissile and radioactive materials in hand luggage and cargo trucking”
A. Lobko, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, V. Mechinski, G. Drobychev
Advanced Sensors for Safety and Security, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics / A. Vaseashta and S. Khudaverdyan (eds.), Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013, P. 253-260.

“Radiation damage of LSO crystals under γ- and 24 GeV protons irradiation”
E. Auffray, A. Barysevich, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, M. Koschan, M. Lucchini, V. Mechinski, C.L. Melcher, A. Voitovich
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 721, 1 September 2013, Pages 76-82

“Novel Glass Ceramic Scintillator for Detection of Slow Neutrons in Well Logging Applications”
Anton Nikitin, Andrei Fedorov, Mikhail Korjik.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Impact Factor: 1.22). 04/2013; 60(2):1044-1048.

“Stimulation of Radiation Damage Recovery of Lead Tungstate Scintillation Crystals Operating in a High Dose-Rate Radiation Environment”
Andrei E. Borisevitch, Valeri I. Dormenev, Andrei A. Fedorov, Mikhail V. Korjik, Till Kuske, Vitali Mechinsky, Oleg V. Missevitch, Rainer W. Novotny, Rodger Rusack, Alexander V. Singovski.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 04/2013; 60(2):1368-1372

“EndoTOFPET-US: Towards a Multi-Modal Endoscope for Ultrasound and Time of Flight PET”
M. Pizzichemi,
2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record 1-5

“EndoTOFPET-US: a novel multimodal tool for endoscopyand positron emission tomography”
N Aubry, E Auffray, FB Mimoun, N Brillouet, R Bugalho, E Charbon, O Charles, D Cortinovis, P Courday, A Cserkaszky, C Damon, K Doroud, J-M Fischer, G Fornaro, J-M Fourmigue, B Frisch, B Furst, J Gardiazabal, K Gadow, E Garutti, C Gaston, A Gil-Ortiz, E Guedj, T Harion, P Jarron, J Kabadanian, T Lasser, R Laugier, P Lecoq, D Lombardo, S Mandai, E Mas, T Meyer, O Mundler, N Navab, C Ortigao, M Paganoni, D Perrodin, M Pizzichemi, JO Prior, T Reichl, M Reinecke, M Rolo, H-C Schultz-Coulon, M Schwaiger, W Shen, A Silenzi, JC Silva, R Silva, I Somlai Schweiger, R Stamen, J Traub, J Varela, V Veckalns, V Vidal, J Vishwas, T Wendler, C Xu, S Ziegler, M Zvolsky,
2013 Journal of Instrumentation 8 C04002

“How Photonic Crystals Can Improve the Timing Resolution of Scintillators”
P. Lecoq, E. Auffray, A. Knapitsch
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sc. 2013, Vol. 60, issue 3, Page 1653-1657
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2260768

“ClearPEM clarifies breast cancer diagnosis”
Frisch, B. (2013)
CERN Courier

“Self-trapped exciton and core-valence luminescence in BaF2 nanoparticles”
V. V. Vistovskyy, A. V. Zhyshkovych, Ya. M. Chornodolskyy, O. S. Myagkota, A. Gloskovskii, A. V. Gektin,
A. N. Vasil’ev, P. A. Rodnyi, and A. S. Voloshinovskii
J. Appl. Phys. 114, 194306 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4831953

“The features of energy transfer to the emission centers in ZnWO4 and ZnWO4:Mo”
Krutyak N.R., Mikhailin V.V., Vasil’ev A.N., Spassky D.A., Tupitsyna I.A., Dubovik А.M., Galashov E.N.,
Shlegel V.N., Belsky A.N.
Journal of Luminescence, v. 144, pp. 105-111 (2013), DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2013.06.039

“Band tail absorption saturation in CdWO4 with 100 fs laser pulses”
R. Laasner, N. Fedorov, R. Grigonis, S. Guizard, M. Kirm, V. Makhov, S. Markov, V. Nagirnyi, V. Sirutkaitis,
A. Vasil’ev, S. Vielhauer and I. A. Tupitsyna
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 25 (2013), 245901 (11pp) , doi:10.1088/0953-8984/25/24/245901

“Development of filtering methods for PET signals contaminated by RF pulses for combined PET-MRI,”
Y. Huh, Y. Choi, K.J. Hong, W. Hu, J. Kang, J.H. Jung, M.S. Song, H-W. Park, and K.B. Kim,
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 3205-3211, 2013.

“A prototype MR insertable brain PET using tileable GAPD arrays,”
K.J. Hong, Y. Choi, J.H. Jung, J. Kang, W. Hu, H.K. Lim, Y. Huh, S. Kim, J. Jung, K.B. Kim, M.S Song, and H-W. Park
Med. Phys., vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 042503, 2013.

“Read-Out Electronics for Digital Silicon Photomultiplier Modules”
H. Nöldgen, A. Chlubek, C. Degenhardt, A. Erven, Y. Haemisch, L. Jokhovets, G. Kemmerling,
L. Meessen, C. Peters, M. Ramm, M. Streun, P. Wüstner, B. Zwaans, S. Jahnke, S. van Waasen,
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE, Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

“Scintillator Arrangement on digital SiPMs for PET”
M. Streun, H. Nöldgen, A. Erven, S. España, L. Jokhovets, R. Marcinkowski, C. Peters, M. Ramm, N. Schramm, P. Wüstner, S. Vandenberghe, G. Kemmerling, and S. van Waasen,
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE, Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

“Geant4-based Monte Carlo simulations on GPU for medical applications.”
J. Bert, H. Perez-Ponce, Z. El Bitar, S. Jan, Y. Boursier, D. Vintache, A. Bonissent, C. Morel, D. Brasse, D. Visvikis
(2013) Phys. Med. Biol. 58 (16): 5593-5611

“Perfectly Transparent Sr 3 Al 2 O 6 Polycrystalline Ceramic Elaborated from Glass Crystallization”
Alahraché, S., Al Saghir, K., Chenu, S., Véron, E., De Sousa Meneses, D., Becerro, A. I., … Allix, M.
(2013). Chemistry of Materials, 25(20), 4017–4024. http://doi.org/10.1021/cm401953d (IF:8,35)

“Detection Sensitivity and Light Collection Studies of an APD-based High Packing-Fraction LYSO:Ce Matrix for PET Applications”
Viesturs Veckalns, Ricardo Bugalho, Rui Silva, Jorge A. Neves, Stefaan Tavernier, Carlos Zorraquino, Catarina Ortigão, Manuel Rolo, José C. Silva, João Varela,
Nucl. Instr. and Methods – A, 732, (2013), page 607-610

“Estimation of the Electron Thermalization Length in Ionic Materials.”
Belsky, A., Ivanovskikh, K., Vasil’ev, A., Joubert, M.-F., & Dujardin, C.
(2013). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4(20), 3534–3538. http://doi.org/10.1021/jz401864w (IF:7,45)

“X-ray-Induced Singlet Oxygen Activation with Nanoscintillator-Coupled Porphyrins.”
Bulin, A.-L., Truillet, C., Chouikrat, R., Lux, F., Frochot, C., Amans, D., … Dujardin, C.
(2013). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(41), 21583–21589. http://doi.org/10.1021/jp4077189 (IF:4,77)

“Test beam results with LuAG fibers for next-generation calorimeters. ”
Lucchini, M., Medvedeva, T., Pauwels, K., Tully, C., Heering, A., Dujardin, C., … Auffray, E.
(2013). Journal of Instrumentation, 8(10), P10017. http://stacks.iop.org/1748-0221/8/i=10/a=P10017 (IF:1,39)

“A molecular precursor approach to monodisperse scintillating CeF3 nanocrystals”
Mishra, S., Jeanneau, E., Bulin, A.-L., Ledoux, G., Jouguet, B., Amans, D., … Dujardin, C.
(2013) Dalton Transactions, 42(35), 12633. http://doi.org/10.1039/c3dt50605c (IF:4,19)

“Single crystalline LuAG fibers for homogeneous dual-readout calorimeters. ”
Pauwels, K., Dujardin, C., Gundacker, S., Lebbou, K., Lecoq, P., Lucchini, M., … Auffray, E.
(2013). Journal of Instrumentation, 8(09), P09019. http://stacks.iop.org/1748-0221/8/i=09/a=P09019 (IF:1,39)

Presentations

“Radiation damage of Lu2SiO5:Ce and Y2SiO5:Ce scintillation crystals under γ-quanta and energetic proton irradiation”
E. Auffray, A.Fedorov, M.Korjik, M.Luccini, V.Mechinski, N.Naumenko, A.Voitovich,
Presented on the 12th Int. Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications (SCINT 2013), Shanghai, China, April 15-19, 2013.

“Phosphorescence of 24Gev proton irradiated Lu2SiO5:Ce and Y2SiO5:Ce scintillation crystals”
E. Auffray, A.Fedorov, M.Korjik, M.Luccini, V.Mechinski,
Presented on the 12th Int. Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications (SCINT 2013), Shanghai, China, April 15-19, 2013.

“SiPM Angular Response and Enhanced Light Extraction”
M. V. Nemallapudi, S. Gundacker, A. Knapitsch, P. Lecoq, Z. Liu, E. Auffray,
2013, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829586

“Evolution of the response of the CMS ECAL and possible design options for calorimetry at the High Luminosity LHC”
M. Lucchini
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE, doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829511

“Design and Performance of an ASIC for TOF applications”
Ricardo Bugalho, Manuel Dionísio Rolo, Carlos Zorraquino, Rui Silva, José C. Silva, Richard Wheadon, Angelo Rivetti, Stefaan Tavernier, João Varela, Viesturs Vecklans,
Poster at the IEEE NSS-MIC conference, Seoul, Korea, October 2013; published in the conference record

“EndoTOFPET-US DAQ, designing the Data Acquisition System of a High Resolution Endoscopic PET-US Detector”
Carlos Zorraquino, Ricardo Bugalho, Manuel Rolo, Jose Carlos Silva, Viesturs Veckalns, Rui Silva, Catarina Ortigão, Jorge Neves, Stefaan Tavernier and João Varela,
Poster at the IEEE NSS-MIC conference, Seoul, Korea, October 2013; published in the conference record.

“Detection Sensitivity and Light Collection Studies of an APD-based High Packing-Fraction LYSO:Ce Matrix for PET Applications”
Ricardo Bugalho, Carlos Gaston, Manuel Rolo, Jorge A. Neves, Catarina Ortigão, Rui Silva, José C. Silva, S. Tavernier, João Varela, Viesturs Veckalns,
13th Vienna Conference on instrumentation, 11-15 February, 2013. Published in online conference record.

“Evaluation of the FlexToT ASIC on the readout of SiPM matrices and scintillators for PET”
J. Castilla et al.,
2013 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec., M16-48, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829206

“FlexToT – Current mode ASIC for readout of common cathode SiPM arrays”,
A. Comerma et al.,
2013 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec., NPO2-208, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829761

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Comparaison de la micro-tomodensitométrie par comptage de photons et par intégration de charges avec le dispositif d’irradiation PIXSCAN”
Hamid Ouamara
PhD in science – Aix-Marseille Université- 2013

“Optimization and characterization of pet scanners for medical imaging”
Giacomo Cucciati
Univesity Milano Biccoca, Milano, Italy, 2013

“Inorganic single crystalline fibers for dual-readout calorimetry”
Kristof Pauwels
L’Université Lyon I – Claude Bernard, Ecole Doctorale de Physique & Astrophysique, France, 2013

“Development and evaluation of performance improvement methods for PET and PET-MRI based on GAPD”;
Yoonsuk Huh
Ph.D. – Sungkyunkwan University – 2013

“Energy transfer to activators in alkali-earth crystals and ways of increase of its efficiency”
R. Kirkin
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 2013

Publications

“Numerical simulation of energy relaxation processes in a ZnMoO4 single crystal”
A. Savon, D. Spassky, A. Vasil’ev, V. Mikhailin
Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya). — 2012. — Vol. 112, no. 1. — P. 72–78.

“Radiation hardness of LuAG:Ce and LuAG:Pr scintillator crystals”
M.V.Derdzyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, A.G.Petrosyan, A.Belsky, C. Dujardin, C. Pedrini, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, M. Lucchini, K. Pauwels
J. Crystal Growth. 2012, 361, 212-216

“Site occupation and solubility limit of Sc in Lu3Al5O12”
A.G. Petrosyan, K.L. Ovanesyan, G.O. Shirinyan, R.V. Sargsyan, C. Dujardin, C. Pedrini
J. Crystal Growth 2012, 338, 143-146. DOI information: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2011.11.034

“Modeling of the Luminescence-Decay Kinetics of Self-Trapped Excitons at a High Excitation Density under Conditions of Absorption Saturation”
S. A. Markov, V. N. Makhov, A. N. Vasil’ev, and V. Nagirnyi
Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 155–161. Allerton Press, Inc., 2012

“Relaxation of electronic excitations in CaF2 nanoparticles”
V.V. Vistovskyy, A.V. Zhyshkovych, N.E. Mitina, A.S. Zaichenko, A.V. Gektin, A.N. Vasil’ev, A.S. Voloshinovskii
J. Appl. Phys. 112, 024325 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4739488

“Recombination of correlated electron-hole pairs with account of hot capture with emission of optical phonons”
R. Kirkin, V.V. Mikhailin, and A.N. Vasil’ev
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 59, issue 5, pp. 2057-2064 (2012), DOI 10.1109/TNS.2012.2194306

“Modeling of decay kinetics of self-trapped exciton luminescence in CdWO4 under femtosecond laser excitation in absorption saturation conditions”
Sergey Markov, Vitali Nagirnyi, Andrey Vasil’ev, Vladimir Makhov, Raul Laasner, Sebastian Vielhauer, Marco Kirm, Rimantas Grigonis, Valdas Sirutkaitis
Central European Journal of Physics, 10(4) (2012) 1002-1008, DOI: 10.2478/s11534-012-0028-9

“Free-running ADC-and FPGA-based signal processing method for brain PET using GAPD arrays,”
W. Hu , Y Choi, K.J. Hong, J. Kang, J.H. Jung, Y.S. Huh, H.K. Lim, S.S. Kim, B.T. Kim, and Y. Chung,
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A., vol. 664, no.1, pp. 370-375, 2012.

“Development of brain PET using GAPD arrays,”
J.H. Jung, Y. Choi, K.J. Hong, J. Kang, W. Hu, H.K. Lim, Y.S. Huh, S. Kim, J Jung, and K.B. Kim,
Med. Phys., vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1227-1233, 2012.

“A detector insert based on continuous scintillators for hybrid MR-PET imaging of the human brain”
P. Rato Mendes, R. Cuerdo, I. Sarasola, P. García de Acilu, J. Navarrete, O. Vela, J.C. Oller, J.M. Cela, L. Nuñez, M. Pastrana, L. Romero and C. Willmott,
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, 702, 21 Febr 2013, pg 80-82

“Elastic moduli and optical properties of LYSO crystals: theory and experiments”
Fabrizio Davì, Daniele Rinaldi
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 59, N. 5 (2012) p. 2106-2111

“Fast Charge to Pulse Width Converter for Monolith PET Detector”
C.Parl, H.Larue, M.Streun,  K.Ziemons, S. van Waasen,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol.59, no.5, pp.1809-1814, Oct. 2012

“Radiation hardness of LuAG:Ce and LuAG:Pr scintillator crystals”
M.V.Derdzyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, A.Belsky, C.Dujardin, C.Pedrini, E.Auffray, P.Lecoq, M.Luccini, K.Pauwels,
Journal of Crystal Growth 361 (2012) 212-216.

“Site occupation and solubility limit of Sc in Lu3Al5O12”
A.G.Petrosyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, G.O.Shirinyan, R.V.Sargsyan, C.Dujardin, C.Pedrini
Journal of Crystal Growth, 338 (2012) 143-146.

“Structure−Property Correlations in a Ce-Doped (Lu,Gd) 2 SiO 5 :Ce Scintillator.”
Sidletskiy, O., Belsky, A., Gektin, A., Neicheva, S., Kurtsev, D., Kononets, V., … Grinyov, B.
(2012). Crystal Growth & Design, 12, 4411–4416. http://doi.org/10.1021/cg300608t (IF:4,89)

“Study and optimization of positioning algorithms for monolithic PET detector blocks”
P. García de Acilu, I. Sarasola, M. Cañadas, R. Cuerdo, P. Rato Mendes, L. Romero and C. Willmott,
JINST 7 C06010, 2012.

“Design and performance of detector modules for the endoscopic PET probe for the FP7-project EndoTOFPET-US”
E. Auffray, F. Ben Mimoun Bel Hadj, N. Brillouet, P. Coudray, K. Doroud, G. Fornaro, B. Frisch, S. Gundacker, A. Knapitsch, P. Jarron, T. Meyer, M. Paganoni, K. Pauwels, M. Pizzichemi, M. Vangeleyn and P. Lecoq
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp.3236-3240, Oct. 2012

“Scintillating Screen Applications in Accelerator Beam Diagnostics”
B. Walasek-Hohne; C. Andre; P. Forck; E. Gutlich; G. Kube; P. Lecoq; A. Reiter
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), pp.2307-2312, Oct. 2012.
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2200696

“New Approaches to Improve Timing Resolution in Scintillators”
P. Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), pp.2313-2318, Oct. 2012.
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2212283

“Effect of aspect ratio on the light output of scintillators”
K. Pauwels, E. Auffray, S. Gundacker, A. Knapitsch and P. Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), pp.2340-2345, Oct. 2012.

“Experimental Study of Lead Tungstate Scintillator Proton-Induced Damage and Recovery”
E. Auffray; M. Korjik; A. Singovski
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), 2219-2223
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2197416

“A Systematic Study to Optimize SiPM Photo-Detectors for Highest Time Resolution in PET”
S. Gundacker, E. Auffray, B. Frisch, H. Hillemanns, P. Jarron, T. Meyer, K. Pauwels and P. Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), pp.1798-1804, Oct. 2012.

“Technical Design Report for the PANDA”.
M. Korjik
GSI, Darmsntadt, 2012

“Results of Photonic Crystal Enhanced Light Extraction on Heavy Inorganic Scintillators”
Arno Knapitsch; Etiennette Auffray; Christian W. Fabjan; Jean-Louis Leclercq; Xavier Letartre; Radoslaw Mazurczyk; Paul Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 59 (5), pp 2334-2339
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2184556

Presentation

“Growth and studies of mixed (Lu,Y)3Al5O12:Ce scintillator crystals”
K.L.Ovanesyan, G.R.Badalyan, A.V.Yeganyan, A.G.Petrosyan, A.Belsky, C.Dujardin, E.Auffray, P.Lecoq, K.Pauwells, N.Di Vara,
International Conference “Laser Physics 2012” (October 9-12, 2012), Ashtarak, Armenia; poster.

“SiPM photodetectors for highest time resolution in PET”
S. Gundacker, E. Au_ray, B. Frisch, T. Meyer, P. Jarron, and P. Lecoq,
Proceedings of Science PoS(PhotoDet 2012)016, June 2012. LAL Orsay, France

“A concept of a system to detect unclaimed inclusions of fissile and radioactive materials in hand luggage and cargo trucking”
A. Lobko, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, V. Mechinskij, G. Drobychev
Book of Abstracts NATO Advanced Research Workshop – Technological Advances in CBRNE Sensing and Detection for Safety, Security, and Sustainability (Yerevan, Armenia, September 29 – October 01, 2012), p. 25.

“New generation of composite scintillation materials”
M.Korjik, A.Fedorov, V.Mechinski et al.,
LUMDETR 2012, Halle, Germany, 4-9 September 2012.

“ClearPEM-Sonic: performance results and clinical phase one trial”
Marco Pizzichemi, Benjamin Frisch, Etiennette Auffray, Ricardo Bugalho, Liji Cao, Giacomo Cucciati, Nicolas Felix,  Di Vara, Fabio Farina, Alessio Ghezzi, Valerie Juhan, Dang Jun, Philippe Lasaygues, Paul Lecoq, Serge Mensah, Olivier Mundler, Jorge Neves, Marco Paganoni, Joerg Peter, Pascale Siles, Jose Carlos Silva, Rui Silva, Stefaan Tavernier, Laurent Tessonnier and Joao Varela, A. Carr
Submitted to the IEEE conference on Nuclear science and medical imaging , 2012 , Anaheim CA (accepted for poster presentation, not published in conference record)

“Ray tracing simulations in scintillators: A comparison between SLitrani and Geant4”
M. Pizzichemi, E. Auffray, R. Chipaux, G. Cucciati, N. Di Vara, A. Ghezzi, R. Iaconelli, P. Lecoq, M. Lucchini, A. Knapitsch, M. Paganoni and K. Pauwels
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record pp.3236-3240, Oct. 2012

“Image fusion software in the ClearPEM-Sonic project”
M Pizzichemi, N Di Vara, G Cucciati, A Ghezzi, M Paganoni, F Farina, B Frisch, R Bugalho,.
2012 211 13th ICATPP Conference Record pp 1036-1041

“Position Reconstruction in Monolithic Block Detectors”
M.Streun, H.Nöldgen, G.Kemmerling, S. van Waasen,
to be published in Conference Record of Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE , 29 Oct. – 3 Nov. 2012

“Random Correction Method for Positron Emission Mammography Using Delayed Coincidence Data”
Liji Cao, R. Bugalho, C. Ortigao, J. Varela and Joerg Peter
ProcWMIC, 2012, M15-29, Anaheim

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Optical and luminescent properties of molibdates under synchrotron radiation excitation in fundamental absorption region”
A. Savon
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 2012

“Optical and structural properties of oxide scintillators containing Ce3+ and Pr3+”
R.Sargsyan
PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Institute for Physical Research, Academy of Sciences of Armenia – 2012

“Development of a combined positron emission mammograph and ultrasound scanner “
Benjamin Frish
PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2012

“Photonic Crystals: Enhancing the Light Output of Scintillation Based Detectors”
Arno Knappisch
PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2012

“Optical and structural properties of Ce3+ and Pr3+ containing oxide scintillators”
S.R. Sargsyan
PhD – Yerevan State University – 2012

“Measurement system to observe residual stresses in scintillating crystals: design and validation”
Luigi Montalto. AA 2011-2012
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisors: Dott. Ing. Daniele Rinaldi, Dott. Alessandro Benedetto – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche

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 Letters2011, 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   

Publications

“Potentiality of Ceramic Scintillators: General Considerations and YAG-Yb Optical Ceramics Performance”
I. Kamenskikh, M. Chugunova, S. T. Fredrich-Thornton, C. Pedrini, K. Petermann, A. Vasil’ev, U. Wolters, H. Yagi
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57, 2010, 1211 – 1217

“Exciton–Exciton Interaction in CdWO4 Under Resonant Excitation by Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses “
V. Nagirnyi, S. Dolgov, R. Grigonis, M. Kirm, L. L. Nagornaya, F. Savikhin, V. Sirutkaitis, S. Vielhauer, A. Vasil’ev
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57, 2010, 1182 – 1186

“Time-resolved VUV excited luminescence of Y2O3-Yb nanoparticles “
D. Amans, A. Belsky, C. Dujardin, A. Hovsepyan, I. Kamenskikh, A. Kotlov, G. Ledoux, N. Fedorov, C. Pedrini, A.N. Vasil’ev
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57, 2010, 1355 – 1360

“Usage of polarization approximation for the estimation of scintillator intrinsic energy resolution”
A. N. Vasil’ev, I.A. Markov, A.S. Zakharov,
Radiation Measurements, 45 (2010) 258-261.

“Measurement of the muon stopping power in lead tungstate”
Chatrchyan, S.; Khachatryan, V.; Sirunyan, A. M.; et al.
Journal of Instrumentation Volume: 5 Published: 2010, DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/5/03/p03007

“Stimulated recovery of the optical transmission of PbWO 4 scintillation crystals for electromagnetic calorimeters after radiation damage”
V. Dormenev, T. Kuske, R.W. Novotny, A. Borisevich, A. Fedorov, M. Korjik, V. Mechinski, O. Missevitch, S. Lugert,
Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. A, Volume 623, Issue 3, November 2010, Pages 1082-1085.

“Maintaining low radiation damage of lead tungstate scintillation crystals operating in high dose rate radiation environment”
AE Borisevitch, VI Dormenev, AA Fedorov, MV Korjik, T Kuske, …
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE, 1010-1013

“Radiation hardness qualification of PbWO4 scintillation crystals for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter.”
P Adzic, N Almeida, D Andelin, I Anicin, Z Antunovic, R Arcidiacono, …
Journal of Instrumentation 5 (03), P03010 , 2010

“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. accepted on 5/1/2011., to be published in issue TNS June 2011.

“Molecular Imaging Challenges With PET”
Paul Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on, 57(3), (2011) 1485-1491
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2037417

“Time-Based Readout of a Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) for Time of Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET)”
F. Powolny; E. Auffray; S. E. Brunner; E. Garutti; M. Goettlich; H. Hillemanns; P. Jarron; P. Lecoq; T. Meyer; H. C. Schultz-Coulon; W. Shen; M. C. S. Williams
2011 IEEE Transactions on, 58(3), 597-604
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2119493

“Measurement of ultimate tensile strength and young modulus in LYSO scintillating crystals”
L. Scalise, D. Rinaldi, F. Davı, N. Paone
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 654 (2011) pp.122-126

“Choosing the Art relaxation parameter for Clear-PEM 2D image reconstruction”
J. Mesquita, N. Matela, N. Oliveira, M.V. Martins, P. Almeida  
Comp. Biol. Med. 98 (2010) 183–190

“System Matrix Calculation for 2D Image Reconstruction Algorithms for the Clear PEM” Scanner”
N. Matela, M. V. Martins, N. Oliveira, P. Rodrigues, A. Trindade, J. Varela, P. D. Almeida,
Int J Tomogr Stat, (2010), vol13, nW10, pp 98-125

“A feasibility study of photosensor charge signal transmission to preamplifier using long cable for development of hybrid PET-MRI”
J. Kang, Y. Choi, K.J. Hong, J. H. Jung, W. Hu, Y. S. Huh, H. K. Lim, B-T Kim,
Medical Physics, 2010; 37(11):5655-5664

“Nonlinear least-squares modeling of 3D interaction position in a monolithic scintillator block”
Zhi LI, M. Wedrowski, P, Bruyndonckx, G. Vandersteen.  
Phys. Med Biol. 55(2010) 6515-6532

Transparency variations and calibration in CMS electromagnetic calorimeter crystals: Monte-Carlo studies  
R. Chipaux and F.-X. Gentit,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 57 (2010) 1460 1464

“A Simple and Improved Digital Timing Method for Positron Emission Tomography”
W Hu, Y. Choi, K. J. Hong, J. Kang, J. H. Jung, Y. S. Huh, H. K. Lim, S. S. Kim, B. T. Kim,
Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research, A 2010; 622:219-224

“Quality control on pre-serial Bridgman production of PbWO4 scintillating crystals by means of photoelasticity”
D. Rinaldi, A. Ciriaco, M. Lebeau, N. Paone
Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 615 (2010) 254–258

“Development of a position decoder circuit for PET consisting of GAPD arrays”
J.H. Jung, Y. Choi, K.J. Hong, W. Hu, J. Kang, B.J. Min, S, H, Shin, H.K. Lim, Y.S. Huh, E.J. Kim, Nuclear Instrumentation. and Methods in Physics Research, A 2010; 621:310-315

“Bridgman growth and site occupation in LuAG:Ce scintillator crystals”
A.G.Petrosyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, R.V.Sargsyan, G.O.Shirinyan, D.Abler, E.Auffray, P.Lecoq, C.Dujardin, C.Pedrini,
J. Crystal Growth, Vol 312, (2010) 3136-3142.

“Photonic crystals: A novel approach to enhance the light output of scintillation based detectors”
Knapitsch, A. ; Auffray, E.; Fabjan, C.W.; Leclercq, J-L.; Lecoq, P.; Letartre, X.; Seassal, C
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 628, Issue 1, p. 385-388., 2010.

“Towards a Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography System Based on Multi-Pixel Photon Counter Read-Out”
M. Goettlich, E. Garutti, T. Harion, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, W. Shen, R. Stamen, A. Tadday, E. Auffray, P. Jarron, P. Lecoq, T. Meyer, F. Powolny
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA, October 31-November 6 2010, (2010) 1050 – 1055
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873927

“A time driven readout scheme for PET and CT using APDs and SiPMs
F. Powolny, E. Auffray, S. Brunner, G. Condorelli, M. Despeisse, G. Fallica, H. Hillemanns, P. Jarron, A. Kluge, P. Lecoq, M. Mazzillo, T.C. Meyer, M. Morel, D. Sanfillipo, G. Valvo
NIMA, Volume 617, Issues 1–3, 11–21 May 2010, Pages 232-236

“LuAG:Ce fibers for high energy calorimetry”
C.Dujardin, D.Abler, E.Auffray, P.Lecoq, C.Mancini, D.Amans, G.Ledoux, D.Perrodin, K.Ovanesyan, A.Petrosyan,
J. Applied Phys., 2010, 108, 1013510.

“CAD em Mamografia: Estado da Arte e Potencialidades Clínicas”
N. Oliveira, N. Matela, L. Janeiro, L. Freire, M. Pereira, P. Almeida;
Acta Radiológica Portuguesa, Vol.XXII, nº 86, pág. 21-22, Abr.-Jun., 2010

Presentations

“Design and prototyping of a human brain PET scanner based on monolithic scintillators”
P. Rato Mendes et al.,
2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2798-2800

“Correction of random events for a dual-head PEM detector”
Ferreira, Cláudia S; Bugalho, Ricardo; Martins, Mónica V.; Matela, Nuno; Varela, João; Almeida, Pedro,
Poster presentation at the SNM 2011 meeting, Texas – USA

“Design and prototyping of a human brain PET scanner based on monolithic scintillators”
P. Rato Mendes, J. Alberdi, M. Cañadas, P. García de Acilu, J. Navarrete, L. Nuñez, J. M. Pérez, L. Romero, I. Sarasola and C. Willmott, 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conf. Rec., pp. 2798-2800, 2011.

“Studies on Dual Readout Calorimetry with Meta-Crystals”
G. Mavromanolakis, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
To be published in Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA, October 31-November 6 2010

“A GATE simulation study of a fan-beam collimator for SPECT mammography”
Ricardo Capote, P. Almeida,
Poster presentation at the  EANM 2010 Congress – Viena – Austria

“Initial Evaluation of Real Data Obtained With the Clear-PEM Scanner”
Sofia Ferreira, P. Almeida et al,
Oral presentation at the  EANM 2010 Congress – Viena – Austria

“The ClearPEM breast Imaging scanner”
E. Albuquerque, …, S. Tavernier, et al.,
The 12the Vienna conference on instrumentation, 15-20 February 2010. oral presentation. To be published in the proceedings.

“Progress on photonic crystals”
P. Lecoq, E. Auffray, S. Gundacker, H. Hillemanns, P. Jarron, A. Knapitsch, J.L. Leclercq, X. Letartre, T. Meyer, K. Pauwels, F. Powolny and C. Seassal
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp.1970-1975, Nov. 2010

“Studies on Dual Readout Calorimetry with Meta-Crystals”
G. Mavromanolakis, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA, October 31-November 6 2010, (2010) 3963-3967

“Calorimetry with metacable”
E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, G. Mavromanolakis,
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 293(2011) 012082 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/293/1/012082
(proceedings of the Calor2010 conference, Beijing, China, May 10-14 2010)

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Etude et construction d’un tomographe TEP/TDM pour petits animaux, combinant et modules phoswich à scintillateurs et détecteurs à pixels hybrids”
Stanislas Nicol
PhD in science –  Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II –  2010

“Neural network based position estimation in PET”
Mateusz Wedrowski
Ph.D. in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 2010

“Preparation of laser and scintillator garnets with Yb3+ ions and investigation of their optical and structural properties”
A. Eganyan
PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Institute for Physical Research, Academy of Sciences of Armenia – 2010

“Small animal PET Imaging using Monte Carlo simulations: implementation of physiological and metabolic information”
Susana Silva
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics – University of Lisbon – Portugal, 2010

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

Publications

“A Novel Time-Based Readout Scheme for a Combined PET-CT Detector Using APDs”
F. Powolny; E. Auffray; H. Hillemanns; P. Jarron; P. Lecoq; T. C. Meyer; D. Moraes
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, v0l55 (5) 2008 2465-2474
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2004036

“Metamaterials for novel X- or γ-ray detector designs”
P. Lecoq
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008 1405-1409
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774678

“A 20 kpixels CdTe photon-counting imager using XPAD chip”
S. Basolo, J.-F. Bérar, N. Boudet, P. Breugnon, B. Chantepie, J.-C. Clémens, P. Delpierre, B. Dinkespiler, S. Hustache, K. Medjoubi, M. Ménouni, C. Morel, P. Pangaud, E. Vigeolas
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 589 (2008) 268-274

“Small Animal Simulation Studies using microPET FOCUS system and GATE platform”
S. Branco, S. Jan. S, P.  Almeida,
International Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics, (2008), 1(2): 141-149.

“TI HfO2:X (X = Eu3+, Ce3+, Y3+) Sol Gel Powders for Ultradense Scintillating Materials”
C. LeLuyer, M. Villanueva-Ibanez, A.Pillonnet, C. Dujardin,
Journal of Physical Chemistry A , VOL 112, (2008), 10152-10155

“Fiber single crystal growth by LHPG technique and optical characterization of Ce3+-doped Lu2SiO5”
H. Farhi, K. Lebbou, S. Belkahla, L. Grosvalet, B. Hautefeuille, A. Caramanian, C. Dujardin, O. Tillement, C. Pedrini,
Optical Materials Vol 30, (2008) 1461-1467

“The SciCryo project and cryogenic scintillation of Al2O3 for dark matter”
P. C. F. Di Stefano, N. Coron, P. de Marcillac, C. Dujardin, M. Luca, F. Petricca, F. Proebst, S. Vanzetto, M. A. Verdier,
Journal of Low Temperature Physics Vol 151 (2008), 902-907

Presentations

“A dedicated ASIC front-end readout for the monolithic detector blocks of the BrainPET prototyp”
I. Sarasola Martin, P. Rato Mendes, J. Navarrete, P. Bruyndonckx, J.M. Perez, P. Delpierre, C. Willmott
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4823-4827.
doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774321

“Monte Carlo evaluation of monolithic scintillator block detectors using silicon PMTs”
Z. Li, P.Bruyndonckx, D.Jun, M.Wedrowski, J.M. Perez, J.M.Perez, P. Rato Mendes, K. Ziemons, S. Tavernier
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4823-4827.
doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774321

“The XPAD3 detector: a fast hybrid pixel detector for small animal X-ray imaging”
B. Chantepie, S. Basolo, A. Bonissent, J.-C. Clemens, F. Debarbieux, P. Delpierre, B. Dinkespiler, M. Menouni, C. Morel, S. Nicol, P. Pangaud, E. Vigeolas
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4920-4923.
doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774345

“Optimization of a monolithic detector block design for a prototype human brain PET scanner”
P. Rato Mendes, P.Bruyndonckx, M.C.Castro, Z. Li, J.M.Perez, I. Sarasola Martin
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4927-4930.
doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774343

“Characterization and scintillation properties of sol-gel derived Lu2SiO5:Ln(3+) (Ln = Ce, Eu and Tb) powders”
C. Mansuy, C. Dujardin, R. Mahiou, J. M. Nedelec,
Optical Materials, (2009), 1334-1336
Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Photoluminescence in Rare Earths Photonic Materials and Devices, MAY 24-25, 2007, Trento, ITALY

“Dual readout calorimeter with heavy scintillating crystal fibers”
E. Auffray, D. Abler, P. Lecoq, C. Dujardin, J. M. Fourmigue, D. Perrodin,
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 3262-3265

“Determination of the Absolute Light Yields of LuYAP and LYSO”
M. Kronberger, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq,
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 1153-1157

“Improving light extraction from heavy inorganic scintillators by photonic crystals”
M. Kronberger, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Volume: 57 , Issue: 5 , Part: 1 (2010) 2475 – 2482
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 3914-3919

“Study of the light collection efficiency in the CMS ECAL PbWO4 crystals”
A. Thea, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, M. Kronberger
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 2448 – 2451

“Comparison of Spectral and Scintillation Properties of LuAP:Ce and LuAP:Ce,Sc Single Crystals”
A.G.Petrosyan, M.Derdzyan, K.Ovanesyan, P.Lecoq, E.Auffray, M.Kronberger, B.Frisch, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin,
IEEE Transactions Nuclear Science, 56, (2009), 2574-2579.
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 4877 – 4882

“Measured Imaging Performance of photon counting hybrid-pixel X-ray detectors”
F. Cassol Brunner, J.-C. Clemens, C. Hemmer, C. Morel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 3973-3976.

“An Overview of the Clear-PEM Breast Imaging Scanner”
E. Albuquerque; F. G. Almeida; P. Almeida; E. Auffray; J. Barbosa; A. L. Bastos; V. Bexiga; R. Bugalho; S. Carmona; B. Carrico; C. S. Ferreira; N. C. Ferreira; M. Ferreira; M. Frade; J. Godinho; F. Goncalves; C. Guerreiro; P. Lecoq; C. Leong; P. Lousa; P. Machado; M. V. Martins; N. Matela; R. Moura; P. Neves; N. Oliveira; C. Ortigao; F. Piedade; J. F. Pinheiro; P. Relvas; A. Rivetti; P. Rodrigues; I. Rolo; J. Sampaio; A. I. Santos; J. Santos; M. M. Silva; S. Tavernier; I. C. Teixeira; J. P. Teixeira; R. Silva; J. C. Silva; A. Trindade; J. Varela
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Dresden, Germany, 19 – 25 Oct 2008, (2008) 5616 – 5618

“Performance Evaluation of a Highly Integrated APD/ASIC Double-Readout Supermodule with 768 channels for Clear-PEM”
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, M. M. Silva, I. C. Teixeira, J. P. Teixeira, J. C. Silva, A. Trindade, J. Varela
Poster presentation at the 2008 IEEE NSS&MIC Imaging Conference – Desden – Germany

“Beyond ClearPET: Next aims”
Ziemons, K.; Bruyndonckx, P.; Perez, J.M.; Pietrzyk, U.; Rato, P.; Tavernier, S.; Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on 14-17 May 2008 Page(s):1421 – 1424
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541273

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Experimental investigation and simulation of characteristics of charge transfer luminescence of ytterbium sesquioxides”
D. Krasikov
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 2008

“Optimization of light extraction from heavy inorganic scintillators”
Matthias kronberger
PhD thesis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 2008

“Etude et réalisation d’une électronique rapide à bas bruit pour un détecteur de rayons X à pixels hybrides destiné à l’imagerie du petit animal”
Benoît Chantepie
Ph.D. – Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II – 2008

“PIXSCAN : Micro-tomodensitométrie à pixels hybrides pour le petit animal”
Rana Khoury
Ph.D. – Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II –  2008

“2D iterative image reconstruction for a dual planar detector for Positron Emission  Tomography”
Nuno Matela
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics – University of Lisbon – Portugal, 2008

“3D image reconstruction for a dual-plate Positron Emission Tomograph: application to mammography”
Mónica Martins
Ph.D. in Biophysics – University of Lisbon – Portugal, 2008

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   

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

Publications

“Light yield temperature dependence of lutetium-based scintillation crystals.”
Andrei Fedorov, Mikhail Korzhik, Alexander Lobko, Oleg Missevitch and Alexander Annenkov.
 Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)276-278.

“Radiation damage of REAlO3: Ce3+(RE=Y, Lu) scintillators under γ and neutron irradiation.”
S. Baccaro, A. Cecilia, A. Venezia, A. Fedorov, M.V. Korzhik, A. Barisevich and V. Domenev.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)431-434.

“Industrial growth of LuYAP scintillation crystals”
Alexander Annenkov, Andrei Fedorov, Mikhail Korzhik, Vladimir Ligoun, Oleg Missevitch, Alexander Tkachev and Paul Lecoq
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)182-184.

“Characterization of pilot batch of LuYAP crystals to be used in prototypes of small animal positron emission tomograph ClearPET.”
Andrei Fedorov, Alexander Annenkov, Mikhail Korzhik, Paul Lecoq, Oleg Missevitch and Alexander Tkachev.
 Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)193-196.

“Lead tungstate scintillation crystal with increased light yield for the PANDA electromagnetic calorimeter.”
A. Borisevich, A. Fedorov, A. Hofstaetter, M. Korzhik, B.K. Meyer, O. Missevitch and R. Novotny.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)101-104.

“Double-end readout of Lu-based scintillation pixels in Positron Emission Tomography.”
A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, O. Missevitch and V. Panov.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)331-334.

“Application of PWO crystals for detection of low-activity gamma-radiation in the energy range above 3 MeV”
G.Yu. Drobychev, V.G. Baryshevsky, A.A. Fedorov, A.A. Khruschinsky, M.V. Korjik, P. Lecoq and O.V. Missevitch.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. А537 (2005)439-442.

“Optimization of light collection in the PWO detector unit cell.”
A. Fyodorov, V. Dormenev, G. Drobychev, M. Korzhik, A. Lobko, O. Missevich, K.Rudov.
Applied to the LANL Preprint archive. 2005.

“A modified OSEM algorithm for PET reconstruction using Wavelet processing”
Lee NY, Choi Y.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2005; 80:236-245.

“Development of analytical model for optimization of dual layer phoswich detector length for PET”
Chung YH, Choi Y, Choe YS, Lee KH, Kim BT.
Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research 2005; 26(1):17-22.

“Optimization of dual layer phoswich detector consisting of LSO and LuYAP for small animal PET”
Chung YH, Choi Y, Cho G, Choe YS, Lee KH, Kim BT..
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 2005; 52(1): 217-221.

“Clear-PEM: A dedicated PET camera for improved breast cancer detection”
M.C. Abreu, P. Almeida, F. Balau, N.C. Ferreira, S. Fetal, F. Fraga, M. Martins, N. Matela, R. Moura, C. Ortigão, L. Peralta, P. Rato, R. Ribeiro, P. Rodrigues, A. I. Santos, A. Trindade, J. Varela,
Radiation Protection Dosimetry vol. 116, nº 1-4, (2005) 208-210

“Comparison of LuAP and LuYAP crystal properties from statistically significant batches produced with two different growth methods”
J.Trummer, E.Auffray, P.Lecoq, A.G.Petrosyan, P.Sempere-Roldan,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. A, (2005) 551, 339-351.

“Mapping residual stresses in PbWO4 crystals using photo-elastic analysis”
M. Lebeau, L. Gobbi, G. Majni, N. Paone, P.Pietroni, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research, A 537(2005) 207-210

“Development of non-destructive young modules measurement techniques in non-oriented CeF3 crystals”P. Pietroni, N. Paone, M. Lebeau, G. Majni, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research, A 537(2005) 203-206

“Surface quality inspection oif PbWO4 crystals by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction”
P. Mengucci, A. Di Cristoforo, M. Lebeau, G. Majni, N. Paone, P. Pietroni, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research, A 537(2005) 154-158

“A high resolution PET detector based on continuous scintillators”
S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Leonard, O. Devroede
Nucl. Instr. meth., A537(2005) 321-325

“Clear PEM Data Reconstruction Using STIR”
M. V. Martins, N. Matela, N. Oliveira, A. Trindade, P. Rodrigues, N.Ferreira, J. Varela, P. Almeida
Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging (32) – supplement 1 – September 2005

“Evaluation of Rebinning Methods in a 2D Reconstruction Scenario With Linograms for Clear-PEM”
M. Correia, H. Cordeiro, N. Matela, A. Trindade, M. V. Martins, N. Oliveira, P. Rodrigues, N. C. Ferreira, J. Varela, P. M. D. Almeida,
Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging (32) – supplement 1 – September 2005

“Temperature dependence of the charge transfer and f-f luminescence of Yb3+ in garnets and YAP” I.Kamenskikh, C.Dujardin, N.Garnier, N.Guerassimova, G.Ledoux, V.Mikhailin, C.Pedrini, A.Petrosyan, A.Vasil’ev,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 2005, 17, 5587-5594.

“Structural and scintillation properties of spray coated lutetium borate films doped with Ce3+ and Eu3+”
G. Chadeyron-Bertrand, D. Boyer, C. Dujardin, C. Mansuy, R. Mahiou,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. B, 229, (2005) 232-239
 

Presentations

“The melt growth of large LuAP and related single crystals for PET scanners”
A.G.Petrosyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, G.O.Shirinyan, M.V.Derzyan, T.I.Butaeva, C.Pedrini, N.Garnier, C.Dujardin, I.A.Kamenskikh,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. A 537 (2005) 168-172
(Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“Growth and properties of LuAP co-doped with divalent or tetravalent ions”
M.V.Derzyan, A.G.Petrosyan, T.I.Butaeva, K.L.Ovanesyan, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin, N.Garnier, I.A.Kamenskikh,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. A 537 (2005), 200-202.
(Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“New class of indium-containing room temperature inorganic scintillators”
A.Borisevich, R. Chipaux, J.-F. Cavaignac and M.V. Korzhik
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A537 (2005) 228‑231
(Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“Thin scintillating films of sesquioxides doped with Eu3+”
C. Dujardin, C. Le Luyer, C. Martinet, C. Garapon, J. Mugnier, A. G. Murrillo, C. Pedrini, T. Martin,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. A 537 (2005) 237-241.
(Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“Advances in the scintillation Performance of LuYAO: Ce single crystals”
C. Kuntner, E. Auffray, D. Bellotto, C. Dujardin, N. Grumbach, I. A. Kamenskikh, P. Lecoq, H. Mojzisova, C. Pedrini, M. Schneegans
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 537 (2005) 295-301
 (Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“The ClearPET Project:  Development of a 2nd generation high performance small animal PET scanner”
K.Ziemons et al. (14 authors), Crystal Clear Collaboration
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 537 (2005) 307-311
(Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT2003, Valencia, Spain, September 8- September 12, 2003)

“Influence of Sr/Hf ratio and annealing treatment on structural and scintillating properties of sol-gel Ce3+-doped strontium hafnate powders”
M. Villanueva-Ibanez, C. Le Luyer, S. Parola, C. Dujardin, J. Mugnier,
Optical Materials, Vol 27 (2005) 1541-1546
Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Sol-Gel Materials, Research, Technology, Applications JUN 06-11, 2004, Wroclaw, POLAND

“Comparison of Different Image Reconstruction Strategies in Clear-PEM”
N. Matela, A. Trindade, N. C. Ferreira, M. V. Martins, P. Rodrigues, N. Oliveira, J. Varela, P. D. Almeida
CIMED2005 – Lisboa – Portugal.

“Performance Evaluation of the Clear-PEM Imaging System by Monte Carlo Simulation”
P. Almeida, M. V. Martins, N. Matela, N. Oliveira, N.C. Ferreira, R. Moura, C. Ortigão, L. Peralta, P. Rodrigues, A. Trindade, J. Varela
Monte Carlo 2005 Topical Meeting – Chattanooga, Tenessee, EUA – Abril 2005

“High resolution imaging with ClearPET™ Neuro – First animal images”
M. Khodaverdi, S. Weber, M. Streun, Ch. Parl, H. Larue, G. Brandenburg, A. Bauer, M. Dehnhardt, E. Auffray, M. Boutemeur, P. Bruyndonckx, Y. Choi, Y. D’Asseler, O. Devroede, C. Dujardin, A. Fedorov, U. Heinrichs, M. Janier, J.H. Jung, M. Korjik, M. Krieguer, G. Largeron, C. Lartizien, P. Lecoq, C. Lemaître, S. Léonard, J. F. Loude, C. Morel, J. B. Mosset, C. Pedrini, A.G. Petrosyan, M. Rey, D. Sappey-Marinier, P. Sempere Roldan, L. Simon, T.Y. Song, S. Staelens, S. Tavernier, J. Trummer, R. Van Holen, J. M. Vieira, E. Wieërs, M. Wisniewska, D. Wisniewski, Y. Wu, U. Pietrzyk, K. Ziemons
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Puerto Rico, USA  October 23-29 2005, Volume: 3 (2005) 1641-1644.
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596634

“First experimental results with the Clear-PEM detector”
Maria C. Abreu, João D. Aguiar, Edgar Albuquerque, Fernando G. Almeida, Pedro Almeida, Pedro Amaral, 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, Joel Rego, Rui Ribeiro, Pedro Rodrigues, Ana I, Santos, José C. Silva, Manuel M. Silva, Isabel C. Teixeira, João P. Teixeira, Andreia Trindade, João Varela
Proceedings of the IEEE-MIC Conference (2005 – Puerto Rico, USA)

“Breast Cancer Imaging Studies by Monte Carlo Simulation with Clear-PEM”
Pedro Almeida, Andreia Trindade, Nuno C. Ferreira, Mónica V. Martins, Nuno Matela, Nuno Oliveira, Pedro Rodrigues, João Varela
Proceedings of the IEEE-MIC Conference 2005 (Puerto Rico, USA)

“Reconstruction of Clear-PEM Data with STIR”
M. V. Martins, N. Matela, P. Rodrigues, A. Trindade, N. Oliveira, M. Correia, H. Cordeiro, N. C. Ferreira, J. Varela, P. Almeida
Proceedings of the  IEEE-MIC Conference 2005 (Puerto Rico, USA).

“Measured and simulated specifications of the Lausanne ClearPET scanner demonstrator”
M. Rey, J. M. Vieira, J. B. Mosset, M. Moulin Sallanon, P. Millet, J. F. Loude, C. Morel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Puerto Rico, USA  October 23-29 2005, (2005) 2070-2073.

“Digital pulse shape discrimination methods for phoswich detectors”
D. Wisniewski, M. Wisniewska, P. Bruyndonckx, M. Krieguer, S. Tavernier, O. Devroede, C. Lemaître, J. B. Mosset, C. Morel (2005
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Puerto Rico, USA  October 23-29 2005, (2005) 2979-2983.

“Scintillation properties of LuYAP and LYSO crystals measured with MiniACCOS, an automatic crystal quality control system”
J. Trummer, D. Aimard, E. Auffray, G. Chevenier, C. Laffay, P. Lecoq, P. Sempere-Roldan, O Teller,
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC) Puerto Rico, USA  October 23-29 2005, Volume: 5 , (2005) 2807 – 2810

“Image reconstruction for the ClearPET™ Neuro”
S. Weber, C. Morel, L. Simon, M. Krieguer, M. Rey, B. Gundlich, M. Khodaverdi
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 569 (2): (2006). 381-385.
Conference : ITBS’2005, 3rd International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, Sep 25-29 2005, Milos, Greece

“First results with the ClearPET small animal PET scanners”
E. Auffray, M. Boutemeur, G. Brandenburg, P. Bruyndonckx, Y. Choi, Y. D’Asseler, O. Devroede, O. Dietzel, C. Dujardin, A. Fedorov, M. Janier, J.H. Jung, M. Khodaverdi, M. Korjik, M. Krieguer, C. Lartizien, H. Larue, P. Lecoq, C. Lemaître, J. F. Loude, C. Morel, J. B. Mosset, C ; Parl, C ; Pautrot, C. Pédrini, A.G. Petrosyan, U. Pietrzyk, M. Rey, D. Sappey-Marinier, P. Sempere Roldan, T.Y. Song, S. Staelens, M. Streun, S. Tavernier, J. Trummer, S. Vandenberghe, R. Van Holen, J. M. Vieira, S. Weber, E. Wieërs, M. Wisniewska, D. Wisniewski, Y. Wu, K. Ziemons Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications, NATO Security through Science Series B: Physics and Biophysics, edited by S. Tavernier, A. Gektin, B. Grinyov and W.W. Moses, (2006) 149-164.
Conference : SCINT’2005, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications, Sep 19-23 2005, Alushta, Ukraine

“Investigation of crystal identification methods for ClearPET phoswich detector”
D. Wisniewski, M. Wisnievska, P. Bruyndonckx, M. Krieguer, S. Tavernier, O. Devroede, C. Lemaître, J. B. Mosset, C. Morel
Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications, NATO Security through Science Series B: Physics and Biophysics, edited by S. Tavernier, A. Getkin, B. Grinyov and W.W. Moses, (2006). pp. 165-189.
Conference : SCINT’2005, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications, Sep 19-23 2005, Alushta, Ukraine

“Description and performance of MiniACCOS : an automatic system for fast characterization of small scintillating pixels”
E. Auffray,G. Chevenier, C. Laffay, P. Lecoq, P. Sempere Roldan,O. Teller, J. Trumer
In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (SCINT2005), Alushta, Ukraine, 19-23 September 2005), Eds. A.Gektin and B.Grinyov, Kharkov (2006) 468-472

“Optical and scintillation properties of LuAP as a function of chemical perfection”
A.G.Petrosyan, M.Derdzyan, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin, I.Kamenskikh, P.Anfre, I.Kamenskikh,
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (SCINT2005), Alushta, Ukraine 19-23 September 2005) Eds. A.Gektin and B.Grinyov, Kharkov (2006) 442-445.

“Quality monitoring in PWO scintillating crystal production during R&D phase”
M. Lebeau, A. Ciriaco, L. Gobbi, G. Majni, N. Paone, P. Pietroni, D. Rinaldi
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Use in Scientific and Industrial Applications, Publisher: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov (2006) 334-337.

“Light collection dependence on polishing method”
M. Lebeau, C.Armataffet, A.Ciriaco, A. Di Cristoforo, P.Mengucci,  R.Paramatti, D.Rinaldi
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Use in Scientific and Industrial Applications, Publisher: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov (2006) 262-266

“Investigation of crystal identification methods for ClearPET™ phoswich detector”
D. Wisniewski, M. Wisniewska, P. Bruyndonckx, M. Krieguer, S. Tavernier, O. Devroede, and C. Lemaitre,
S. Tavernier et al. (eds), Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications, 165-189, 2006 Springer, proceedings of the Nato Advanced research workshop, September 19-23, 2005. Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine

“LuAP:Ce and LuYAP:Ce crystals: relaxation channels competing with cerium emission”
I.Kamenskikh, E.Auffray, N.Guerassimova, C.Dujardin, P.Lecoq, V.Mikhailin, C.Pedrini, A.Petrosyan, A.Vasil’ev,
In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (Alushta, Ukraine, 19-23 September 2005, Eds. A.Gektin and B.Grinyov, Kharkov (2006) 11-14.

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Spatial resolution study of PET detector modules bases on LSO crystals and avalanche photodiode arrays”
Sophie Leonard
PhD in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 2005

Publications

“Neural Network Based Position Estimators for PET Detectors Using Monolithic LSO blocks”
P. Bruyndonckx, S. Leonard, S. Tavernier, C. Lemaître, O. Devroede, Y. Wu and M. Krieguer,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol 51, N° 5 (2004) 2520-2525

“The ClearPET: a high resolution high sensitivity dual-layer phoswich small animal PET scanner”
U. Heinrichs, P. Bruyndoncxk, Y. Choi, G. Dietzel, M. Korjik, P. Lecoq, C. Morel, C. Pedrini, A.G. Petrosyan, U. Pietrzyk, D. Sappey-Marinier, M. Streun, S. Tavernier, K. Ziemons
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and molecular imaging 31: S400-S400 Suppl. 2, Aug 2004

“Algebraic reconstruction technique (ART) using linograms”
N. P. L. Matela, A. Trindade, M.V. Martins, N. Oliveira, P. Rodigues, L. Peralta, J. Varela, P.M.D. Almeida
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2004) 31:Supplement 2

“REAlO3: Ce3+ (RE= Y, Lu) Scintillator Radiation Damage and Spontaneous Recovery after gamma Irradiation.”
Cecilia, S Baccaro, A Venezia, A Fedorov, MV Korzhik, A Barisevich, V Domenev.
Astroparticle, Particle and Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications. 617-621, 2004

“First results on prototype production of new LuYAP crystals.”
A Annenkov, A Fedorov, M Korzhik, P Lecoq, O Missevitch.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 527(1)50-53, 2004

“Development of an optimised LSO/LuYAP phoswich detector head for the ClearPET camera”
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, C. Morel,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 2004, Volume: 4, Issue: 2439-24433
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462749

“Characterization of two deep-diffusion avalanche photodiode array prototypes with different optical coatings”
Song TY, Mosset J-B, Loude J-F, Choi Y, Morel C.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 2004; 51(5): 2279-2283.

“Characterization of dual layer phoswich detector performance for small animal PET using Monte Carlo simulation”
Chung YH, Choi Y, Cho G, Choe YS, Lee KH, Kim BT.
Physics in Medicine and Biology 2004; 49(13):2881-2890.

“Electronics and Data Acquisition in Radiation Detectors for Medical Imaging”
J. Varela,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 527 (2004) 21–26.

“Geant4 Applications and Developments for Medical Physics Experiments”
R. Moura, C. Ortigao, L. Peralta, M.G. Pia, P. Rodrigues, A. Trindade, J. Varela,
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. vol 51(4), pp. 1412-1419, 2004.

“The ClearPET project”
E.Auffray, P.Bruyndonckx, O.Devroede, A.Fedorov, U.Heinrichs, M.Korjik, M.Krieguer, C.Kuntner, C.Lartizien, P.Lecoq, S.Leonard, C.Morel, J.-B.Mosset, C.Pedrini, A.Petrosyan, U.Pietrzyk, M.Rey, S.Saladino, D.Sappey-Marinier, L.Simon, M.Streun, S.Tavernier, J.-M.Vieira, K.Ziemons,
Nucl. Instrum. & Meth. A, 2004, 527, 171-174.

“GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT”
S Jan, G Santin, D Strul, S Staelens, K Assié,DAutret, S Avner, R Barbier, M Bardies, P M Bloomfield, D Brasse, VBreton, P Bruyndonckx, I Buvat, A F Chatziioannou, Y Choi, Y H Chung, C Comtat, D Donnarieix, L Ferrer,S J Glick, C J Groiselle, D Guez, P-F Honore, S Kerhoas-Cavata, ASKirov, V Kohli, M Koole, M Krieguer, D J van der Laan, F Lamare, G Largeron, C Lartizien, D Lazaro, M C Maas, L Maigne, F Mayet, F Melot, C Merheb, E Pennacchio,JPerez, U Pietrzyk, F R Rannou,M Rey, D R Schaart, C R Schmidtlein, LSimon, T Y Song, J-M Vieira, D Visvikis, R Van de Walle, E Wieers and C Morel
Phys. Med. Biol. 49, 19 (2004) 4543-4561

“Simulation of time curves in small animal PET using GATE”
Luc Simon, Daniel Streul, Giovanni Santin, Magalie Krieguer, Christian Morel.
Nucl. Instr. Meth., A 527, 1-2 ( 2004) 190-194

“Monte Carlo simulation in PET and SPECT instrumentation using Gate
K. Assie, V. Breton, I. Buvat, C. Comptat, S. Jan, M. Krieguer, D. Lazaro, C. Morel, M. Rey, G. Santin, L. Simon, S. Staelens, D. Strul, J. M. Viera, R. Van de Walle,
Nucl. Instr. Meth., A 527, 1-2 ( 2004)  180-189

“Breast Imaging with a dedicated PEM”
R.Ribeiro, C. Abreu, P. Almeida, F. Balau, P. Bordalo, N.C. Ferreira, S. Fetal, F. Fraga, P. Lecoq, M. Martins, N. Matela, R. Moura, C. Ortigão, L. Peralta, S. Ramos, P. Rato, P. Rodrigues, A.I. Santos, A. Trindade, J. Varela,
Nucl. Instrum & Methods in Physics Research  A527  (2004) 87-91.

Presentations

“CaMoO 4 scintillation crystal for the search of 100 Mo double beta decay”
S Belogurov, V Kornoukhov, A Annenkov, A Borisevich, A Fedorov, M Korzhik, V Ligoun, O Missevitch, SK Kim, SC Kim, SY Kim, JW Kwak, HS Lee, J Lee, SS Myung, MJ Lee, YD Kim, JY Lee, JI Lee, HJ Kim, YJ Kwon, MJ Hwang, JJ Zhu.
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE, v. 1, 133-137, 2004

“Performance of a PET Prototype Demonstrator based on non-pixelated scintillators”
P. Bruyndonckx, C. Lemaître, S. Léonard, D. Schaart, D.J. van der Laan, M.C. Maas, Y. Wu, M. Krieguer, S. Tavernier, O. Devroede,
Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 NSS-MIC conference, October 2004, Rome. M10-164

“Intrinsic luminescence and luminescence of inadvertent impurities in LuAP and LuYAP crystals” I.Kamenskikh, N.V.Guerassimova, V.V.Mikhailin, A.N.Vasil’ev, C.Dujardin, A.G.Petrosyan,
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Records (NSS/MIC) Roma, Italy, October 16-22 2004, vol.2, (2004) 993-997.

“Optical and scintillation characteristics of Bridgman LuAP single crystals for positron emission tomography”
A.G.Petrosyan, M.V.Derdzyan, P.Lecoq, E.Auffray, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardian, C.Kuntner, P.Sempere, K.L.Ovanesyan, I.A.Kamenskikh,
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Records (NSS/MIC) Roma, Italy, October 16-22 2004, Vol.7, (2004) 4164-4167
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1466809

“System matrix calculation for Clear-PEM using ART and linograms”
N Matela, M. Martins, P. Rodigues, A. Trindade, N. Oliveira, L. Peralta, N. Ferreira, J. Varela, P. Almeida;
Proceedings of the IEEE-MIC Conference 2004 – Rome – Italy

“ReAlO3:Ce (Re=Y, Lu) scintillation crystals and their application in research and industry”
A.Fedorov , A.Annenkov, M.Korzhik, V.Ligoun, O.Missevitch, S.Smirnova.
Abstracts of the International Jubilee Conference «Single crystals and their application in the XXI century – 2004», June 8-11, 2004. Alexandrov, VNIISIMS, 2004, 348 pages, p.105.

“Optimization of optical coupling conditions for LSO/LuAP phoswich detector
J.H. Jung, O. Devroede, P. Bruyndonckx, M. Krieguer, S. Tavernier, Y.H. Chung and Y. Choi
Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 NSS-MIC conference, October 2004, Rome. M5-126

“The ClearPET™ neuro scanner: a dedicated LSO/LuYAP phoswich small animal PET scanner”
K. Ziemons; R. Achten; E. Auffray; A. Bauer; G. Brandenburg; P. Bruyndonckx; Y. Choi; J. Daemen; M. Dehnhardt; O. Devroede; M. Fleischer; L. Fuss; U. Heinrichs; A. Hollendung; M. Holschbach; M. Khodaverdi; P. Kirchner; H. Kleines; M. Krieguer; H. Larue; P. Lecoq; M. Leyendecker; R. Moeller; C. Morel; J. -B. Mosset; C. Parl; U. Pietrzyk; J. Schmitz; M. Streun; S. Tavernier; M. Veggian; E. Zimmermann; H. H. Coenen; H. Halling; R. Sievering; K. Zilles
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE, Volume: 4 Pages: 2430 – 2433
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2004.1462747

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Tecniche fotoelastiche per il controllo di qualità di cristalli scintillatori mediante mappatura di tensioni residue.”
Andrea Ciriaco. AA 2003-2004
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisors: Prof. Dott. Ing. Michel Lebeau, Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche   

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

Publications

“Quality inspection of anisotropic scintillating lead tungstate (PbWO4) crystals through measurement of interferometric fringe pattern parameters”
N. Cocozzella, M. Lebeau, G. Majni, N. Paone, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research, A 469 (2001) 331-339.

“Crystal structure of lead tungstate at 1.4 and 300 K”
R. Chipaux, G. André, A. Cousson,
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 325 (2001) 91‑94.

“X-ray excited charge transfer luminescence in YAG:Yb and YbAG”
N.Guerassimova, N.Garnier, C.Dujardin, A.Petrosyan, C.Pedrini,
J. Luminescence, 2001, 94/95, 11-16.

“Design and performance of a Data Acquisition System for the VUB-PET”
P. Bruyndonckx, Yonggang WANG, S. Tavernier, Paul Carnochan.
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science, 48 (2001) 150-156

“Cerium-doped fluorescent and scintillating ionic crystals”
C,Pedrini, C.Dujardin, J.C.Gacon, A.N.Belsky, A.N.Vasil’ev, A.G.Petrosyan,
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 2001, 154(1-4), 277-286.

“X-ray excited charge transfer luminescence of ytterbium-containing aluminium garnets”   
N.Guerassimova, N.Garnier, C.Dujardin, A.G.Petrosyan, C.Pedrini,
Chem. Phys. Lett., 2001, 339, 197-202.

“Search of new scintillation materials for nuclear medicine applications”
M. Korzhik; P. Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Volume: 48, Issue: 3 (2001) Pages: 628 – 631,
DOI: 10.1109/23.940137

“Equipment and Methods for Rapid Analysis of PWO Full Size Scintillation Crystals Radiation Hardness During Mass Production.”
G. Drobychev, A. Annenkov, A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, A. Lopatik, O. Missevitch, J P. Peigneux, A. Singovski, R. Zouevski.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 48, no. 4, 2001, pp.1177 – 1181.

“A source of reference light pulses for stabilization of the energy scale of fast multichannel scintillation detectors.”
MV Korzhik, AP Lopatic, OV Misevich, AA Fedorov.
Instruments and Experimental Techniques. 44(4) 485-490, 2001

Presentations

“New inorganic scintillation materials development for medical imaging”
P. Lecoq; M. Korzhik
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2001 IEEE, 2001, Volume: 1, 39 – 42,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2001.1008405

“Evaluation of a high resolution positron emission tomography (PET) scanner for positron emission mammography (PEM)”
L. L. White , R. J. Ott, P. Carnochan, D. M. Duxbury, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier
Conference record IEEE/MIC conference, San Diego, USA 5-10 November 2001, , M5A15 – CD

“Evaluation of different types of Avalanche photo diodes from Hamamatsu and Perkin Elmer”
Liu Jiangui, A. Fremout, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier, J-F Loude, C. Morel
Conference record I IEEE MIC conference, San Diego, USA 5-10 November 2001, N22-89 – CD

“VUV scintillation of Lu PO4:Nd and YPO4:Nd”
D. Wisniewski, S. Tavernier, P. Dorenbos, M. Wisniewski, P. Bruyndonckx, E. Van Loef, C.W.E. Van Eijk and L.A. Boatner
Conference record IEEE/MIC conference, San Diego, USA 5-10 November 2001, Vol 1 (354-358)

“Luminescence and scintillator properties of YAG:Pr”
M. Wisniewska, D. Wisniewski, A.J. Wojtowicz, S Tavernier, T. Lukasiewicz, Z. frukacz , Z. Galazka,  M. Malinowski
Conference record IEEE/MIC conference, San Diego, USA 5-10 November 2001, Vol 1 (341-345)129.

“Feasibility studies with PET detector modules based on APD arrays and LSO”
S. Leonard, A, Fremout, D. Wisniewski, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier, Y. Wang, A. Fedorov
Conference record IEEE/MIC conference, San Diego, USA 5-10 November 2001, Vol 1(43-47)

“Progress in the development of LuAlO3 based scintillators”
A. Belsky, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, C. Dujardin, N. Garnier, H. Canibano, C. Pedrini, A. Petrosyan,
IEEE trans. Nucl. Sci., vol48, N4 (2001) 1095-1000
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, (NSS/MIC), Lyon, France, October 15 – 20, 2000,
(vol. 1) 6/6
DOI: 10.1109/23.958730

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Luminescence of tungstates under excitation by synchrotron radiation in fundamental absorption region”
D. Spassky
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 2001

“Sviluppo di metodologie non distruttive per la caratterizzazione delle proprietà elasto-ottiche di cristalli scintillatori finalizzata al controllo della qualità.”
Paolo Pietroni. AA 2001-2002
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisors: Prof. Giuseppe Majni, Dott. Ing. Michel Lebeau, Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche

“Caratterizzazione delle proprietà foto-elastiche di cristalli scintillatori: progetto di un banco ottico finalizzato al controllo della qualità.”
Paolo Pizzingrilli. AA 2000-2001
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisors: prof. Giuseppe Majni, Dott. Ing. Michel Lebeau, Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche

Publications

“Scintillator developments for high energy physics and medical imaging”
P. Lecoq; M. Korzhik
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2000, Vol 47, ( 4) 1311 – 1314,
DOI: 10.1109/23.872969

“Uniformization of light collection in lead tungstate crystals in view of a high resolution electromagnetic calorimeter”
P. Sempere-Roldan, E. Auffray, F. Cavallari, P. Lecoq, M. Schneegans,
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, LAPP, Annecy, France, Oct 9–14 2000, Ed. B. Aubert, J. Colas, P. Nedelec, L. Poggioli,Editions INFN laboratory di Frascati,2001 685-693

“Sol-gel coating of scintillating crystals”
R. Chipaux, M. Géléoc, P. Belleville, B. Lambert,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 47 (2000) 2020‑2023

“Modelisation and simulation of the light collection in the CMS lead tungstate crystals”
R. Chipaux, M. Géléoc,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A451 (2000) 610‑622.

“Growth and light yield performance of dense Ce-doped (LuY)AlO3 solid solution crystals”
A.G.Petrosyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, G.O.Shirinyan, T.I.Butaeva, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin, A.Belsky,
J. Crystal Growth  2000, 211, 252-256.

“Development of new mixed Lux(RE3+)1–xAP:Ce scintillators (RE3+ = Y3+ or Gd3+): comparison with other Ce-doped or intrinsic scintillation crystals”
J. Chval, D. Clément, J. Giba, J. Hybler, J.‑F. Loude, J.A. Mares, E. Mihokova, C. Morel, K. Nejezchleb, M. Nikl, A. Vedda, H. Zaidi
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 443 (2000): 331-34

“PbWO4 crystals radiation hardness test setup at the CERN General Irradiation Facility”
J.-P. Peigneux, A. Singovski, A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, O. Missevitch.
CMS  NOTE 1999/ 061, November 9, 1999, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 

Presentations

“As-grown colour centres and radiation damage in Ce-doped dense rare-earth orthoaluminate scintillators”
A.G.Petrosyan, G.O.Shirinyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, T.I.Butaeva, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin, A.Belsky,
In New Trends in Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (Eds. G.Gurzadyan, A.Karmenyan),
Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4060, 2000, pp. 114-120.

“Measurement of the dynamic response of low gain solid-state photodetector under weak pulse illumination”
D. Clément, J.‑F. Loude, C. Morel
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 442 (2000) 378-383
Conference : Beaune’1999, 2nd International Conference on New Developments in Photodetection, Jun 21-25 1999, Beaune, France

“Quality inspection of anisotropic scintillating crystals through measurement of interferometric fringe pattern parameters”
N. Cocozzella, M. Lebeau, G. Majni, N. Paone, D. Rinaldi
Proceedings of: The Fifth International Conference On Inorganic Scintillators And Their Applications – SCINT99 – Edited by V. Mikhailin – Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow (2000) 298-303

“Status of development of YAP-LuAP mixed scintillators : Optical, luminescence and light yield studies”
A. Belsky, C. Dujardin, C. Pédrini, A. Petrosyan, W. Blanc, J.C. Gacon, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq,
In the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications (SCINT99), Moscow, Russia, August 16–20,1999, Editor V. Mikhailin, Edition Faculty of Physics M. Lomonosov, Moscow, 2000, 363-368

“Phoswich scintillation detector for Small Animal PET.”
A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, O. Missevitch.
Proceedings of the International Workshop Medical Applications of Scintillators, 11-15 July 2000. Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk. Printed in Irkutsk, Russia, 2000.

“Equipment and Methods for Rapid Analysis of PWO Full Size Scintillation Crystals Radiation Hardness at Mass Production.”
A. Annenkov, E. Auffray, G. Drobychev, A. Fedorov, P. Ivankin, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, V. Ligun, A. Lopatik, L. Matveev, O. Missevitch, R. Zouevski, J P. Peigneux, A. Singovski.
IEEE’2000 Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conf. Rec., NSS-615, Lyon, France, October 15-20, 2000, 4 p.

“High precision LED-based light pulser for electromagnetic calorimeter monitoring system.”
A. Fedorov, A. Lopatik, O. Missevitch, J-P. Peigneux, A. Singovski.
IEEE’2000 Abstr. NSS-616, Lyon, France, October 15-20, 2000, 4 p.

“Development of a position-sensitive detector for Small Animal PET.”
A. Fedorov, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, O. Missevitch, A. Tkatchov.
IEEE’2000 Abstr. MIC-282, Lyon, France, October 15-20, 2000, 4 p.

“Characterization of Bridgman and Czochralski LuAP and LuYAP single crystals”
A.G.Petrosyan, G.O.Shirinyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, T.I.Butaeva, C.Pedrini, C.Dujardin, A.Belsky, Proceedings of International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and Their Applications SCINT99 (Moscow, 2000) pp. 408-412.

“LuAlO3, YAlO3 and LaLuO3 structure analysis with neutron diffraction”
E.Galluci, C.Dujardin, M.Boudeulle, C.Pedrini, A.G.Petrosyan, T.Hansen,
Proceedings of International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and Their Applications SCINT99 (Moscow, 2000) pp. 506-510.

“Methodology of Certification of Scintillators for large Scale Detectors”
E. Auffray, A.N. Annenkov, G.Yu. Drobychev, V.A. Evdokimov, A.A. Fedorov, M.V. Korzhik, V.L. Kostilev, P.Lecoq, O.V. Missevitch, A.V. Oskine, V.V. Panov, J.-P. Peigneux, M. Shneegans, R.F. Zouevski
SCINT’99 August 16-20, 1999 Moscow, Russia.

“Synthesis and scintillation properties of some dense X-ray phosphors”
C.Dujardin, Garcia-Murillo, C.Pedrini, C.Madej, C.Goutaudier, A.Koch, A.G.Petrosyan, K.L.Ovanesyan, G.O.Shirinyan, M.J.Weber,
Proceedings of International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and Their Applications SCINT99 (Moscow, 2000) pp. 527-531.

“Thermally stimulated luminescence properties of lead tungstate crystals”
M. Böhm et al. (11 authors)
In the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications (SCINT99), Moscow, Russia, August 16 – 20, 1999, Editor V. Mikhailin, Edition Faculty of Physics M. Lomonosov, Moscow, 2000, 619-625

“Search of new scintillation materials for nuclear medicine application”
M. Korzhik; P. Lecoq
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE, Volume: 1, Pages: 6/1 – 6/5
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949107

“Status of Crystal Clear Collaboration activities on scintillators”
E. Auffray
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE, 2000, Vol1 Page: 6/146
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949141
 
“Preliminary evaluation of High Resolution Positron Emission Tomography for Brest Imaging”
L.L. White, B. Ott, M.A. Flower, K. Erlandsson, D.M. Duxbury, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier
Presented at the IEEE -2000 conference in Lyon, France, 15-20 October 2000
IEEE 2000 NSS/MIC – Proceedings, 17(27-30) – CD

“Study of a PET Detector Module with LSO scintillation Crystals and an APD array”
A. Fremout, R. Chen, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier,
Presented at the IEEE -2000 conference in Lyon, France, 15-20 October 2000
IEEE 2000 NSS/MIC – Proceedings, 21(3-7) – CD

“Study of the readout of a storage phosphor screen with APD’s”
P. Bruyndonckx, F. Zanca, S. Tavernier
Presented at the IEEE -2000 conference in Lyon, France, 15-20 October 2000
IEEE 2000 NSS/MIC – Proceedings, 23(59-63) – CD

“Radiation hardness of mass produced PWO crystals”
G. Drobychev, A. Annenkov, E. Auffray, A. Borisevitch, P. Lecoq, V. Ligun, M. Korzhik, JP. Peigneux, A.Singovski, F.  Skadorov,
In the proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Lyon, France, October 15 – 20, 2000, (vol. 1) 6/109-6/112

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Optimisation des paramètres de scintillation des cristaux de tungstate de plomb pour leur application dans la calorimétrie électromagnétique de haute precision”
Gleb Drobyshev
Thèse de doctorat de l’Université de Savoie conjointe avec l’Université de Biélorussie, soutenue le 12 avril 2000.

Publications

“Readout of scintillator light with avalanche photodiodes for positron emission tomography”
Chen Ruru, A. Fremout, S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, D. Clément, Ch. Morel, J.F. Loude
Nucl. Instr. Meth.,  A433(1999), 637-645

“Suppression of the radiation damage in lead tungstate scintillation crystal”
A. Annenkov, E. Auffray, A. Borisevich, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, V. Ligun,
Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A 426 (1999) 486-490

“Results of PWO Radiation Hardness Optimization”
G.Yu.Drobychev, A.N.Annenkov, E.Auffray,, A.E. Borisevich, M.V.Korjik,  V.L.Kostylev, P.Lecoq, V.D.Ligoun, J.-P. Peigneux
CMS-NOTE-1999-062
 

Presentations

“Readout of scintillator light with gas gain devices”
S. Tavernier and P. Bruyndonckx
Proceedings of the – VIII International conference on Calorimetry  in High Energy Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, June 13-19, 1999, published by Gaspar Barreira et al., World scientific, 65-72

“Development and characterisation of Czochralski grown LuxRE3+1–xAlO3:Ce crystals (RE3+ = Y3+ and Gd3+)
J.A. Mares, M. Nikl, J. Chval, J. Giba, K. Nejezchleb, D. Clément, J.‑F. Loude, C. Morel”
Rad. Eff. Defects Solids 150 (1999): 59-63
Conference : EURODIM’1998, 8th Europhysical Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials, Jul 6-11 1998, Keele, England

“A tunable light pulse generator to investigate properties of photodetectors”
D. Clément, J.‑F. Loude, R. Chen, C. Morel
Conf. Rec. NSS/MIC’1998, IEEE Press, pp. 397-400
Conference : NSS/MIC’1998, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Nov 8-14 1998, Toronto, Canada

“Properties of new mixed Lux(RE)1–xAlO3:Ce scintillators (RE = Y3+ or Gd3+) compared with other Ce-doped or intrinsic scintillation crystals”
J.A. Mares, M. Nikl, J. Chval, E. Mihokova, J. Giba, K. Nejezchleb, D. Clément, J.‑F. Loude, C. Morel
Conf. Rec. NSS/MIC’1998, IEEE Press, pp. 538-542
Conference : NSS/MIC’1998, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Nov 8-14 1998, Toronto, Canada

“Development of a 3D position sensitive scintillation detector using neural networks”
D. Clément, R. Frei, J.‑F. Loude, C. Morel
Conf. Rec. NSS/MIC’1998, IEEE Press, pp. 1448-1452
Conference : NSS/MIC’1998, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Nov 8-14 1998, Toronto, Canada

“Light collection in PbWO4 crystals”
S. Paoletti, E. Auffray, M. Lebeau, P. Lecoq, P.  Sempere-Roldan, M.  Schneegans,E. Vigo,
In the proceedings of the International Workshop on Tungstate Crystals, Rome, Italy, October 12 – 14, 1998, Ed. S. Baccaro, B. Borgia, I. Dafinei, E. Longo, Editions University de La Sapienza, Roma, 1999, 275-284  

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Participation à l’étude de la calibration du calorimètre électromagnétique de l’expérience CMS et à l’étude de photodiodes à avalanche.”
Véronique Da Ponte Puill
Thèse de Doctorat de l’Université Paris 7, soutenu le 13 décembre 1999.

“Pilotuntersuchungen zu einem elektromagnetischen Kalorimeter aus PbWO4 Kristallen”
Thomas Kirn
Ph.D in Physics, University of Aachen, Germany, 1999

“Crossluminescence spectra in tight bounding approximation”
O. Baum
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 1999

“Effects of impact ionization under excitation of media by VUV and X-ray photons”
Fang Yanhua
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 1999

Publications

“Slow Components and afterglow in PWO Crystal Scintillations”
A.N. Annenkov, E. Auffray, A.E. Borisevich, G.Yu. Drobyshev, A.A. Fedorov, O.V. Kondratiev, M.V. Korzhik, P.Lecoq, V.D. Ligun, O.V. Missevitch, V.B. Pavlenko, J.-P. Peigneux, Yu.D. Prokoshkin, A.V. Singovski, R.F. Zouevski,
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 403 (1998) 302-312

“The study of small and large size LuAlO3Ce3+”
C. Dujardin, C. Pedrini, W. Blanc, J.C. Gâcon, J.C. van ‘t Spijker, O.W. Frijns, C.E.E. van Eijk, P. Dorenbos, R. Chen, A. Fremout, F. Tallouf, S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, A.G. Petrosyan
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science,45 vol 3 (1998) 467-471

“LED light pulser for high precision monitoring of the scintillation calorimeter energy scale.”
A. Fyodorov, M. Korzhik, A.Lopatik, O. Missevitch
Nuclear Instr. And Meth. In Phys. Res. Sect. A413(1998)352-356

“A broad range YAP–plastic phoswich dosimeter”
Fyodorov A.A., Trower W.P., Zuevsky R.F.,
Nuclear Instr. And Meth. In Phys. Res. Sect. B (134)3-4 (1998) pp. 413-417

“Optical and scintillation properties of large size LuAlO3:Ce3+ crystals”
C. Dujardin, C. Pedrini, W. Blanc, J.C. Gâcon, J. C. Van’tspijker, O.W.E. Frijns, C.W.E. van Eijk,
P. Dorenbos, Chen Ruru, A. Fremout, F. Tallouf, S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, A. G. Petrosyan.
J. Phys: Condensed matter, 10(1998) 3061-3073

“Comparison of different irradiation procedures for recently optimized Russian PbWO4 Crystals”
E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, P. Sempere-Roldan, J.P. Peigneux, A. Singovski, K. Deiters, D. Renker,
CMS-NOTE-1998-069

“The Crystal Clear network”    
S. Tavernier, Published in “Progress in detectors”,     
Edited by H. Morsi, N. Kroo, C. Ayache, European commission, 1998, page 30-32

“On the origin of the transmission damage in lead tungstate crystals under irradiation”
A. Annenkov, E. Auffray, M. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, J. P. Peigneux
CMS note 1998/041

“Systematic Study of the Short-term Instability of PbWO4 Scintillator Parameters under Irradiation”
A.N. Annenkov, V.D. Ligun, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, A.A. Fedorov, M.V. Korzhik et al.,
Radiation measurements Vol 29 nº1 (1998) 27-38
CMS Note1997-055

“Improvement of several properties of lead tungstate crystals with different doping ions”
E. Auffray et al., (10 authors)
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 402 (1998) 75-84
CMS Note 1997-054

Presentations

“Certifying Procedures for Lead Tungstate Crystal Parameters During Mass Production for the CMS ECAL”
E. Auffray, G. Chevenier, R. Chipaux, G.Yu. Drobychev, G. Dromby, A.A. Fedorov, M. Freire, M. Geleoc, O.V. Kondratiev, M.V. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, J.-M. Le Goff, P. Letournel, A.R. Lopatic, O.V. Missevitch, A. Oriboni, A.V. Oskine, B.M. Panov, J.-P. Peigneux, M. Schneegans, A.V. Singovski, R.F. Zouevski,
1998 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conference Record, p.508

“Scintillators and phosphors in medical imaging”
S. P. K. Tavernier
Published in the proceedings of the “International week on radiation detectors     in Life Sciences, Archamps, 22-26 June, 1998

“Avalanche photodiodes to read scintillator light as an alternative for photomultiplier in positron emission tomography”
S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, CHEN Ruru, A. Fremout, F. Tallouf. D. Clement
Proceedings of the SCINT 97-conference, Shanghai. Edited by Yin Zhiwen, Feng Xiqi, Li Peijun and Xue Zhilin, Chinese Academy of science press, 1997

“Progress in the radiation hardness of PWO scintillators for the CMS calorimeter”
E. Auffray, E. Baguer-Batalla, P. Lecoq, S. Paoletti, M. Schneegans
In the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (SCINT97, P.R. China September 22-25 1997) Ed. Y. Zhiven, L. Peijun, F. Xiqi, X.Zhilin, Shanghai institute of Ceramics, (1997) 199-202

“Luminescence and scintillation decay kinetics of PbW04 single crystals”
M. Nikl et al., (22 authors)
in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (SCINT97, P.R. China September 22-25 1997) Ed. Y. Zhiven, L. Peijun, F. Xiqi, X.Zhilin, Shanghai institute of Ceramics, (1997) 171-176

“X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation in the study of Radiation Hardness of PbWO4”
N. Belsky et al., (11 authors)
in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (SCINT97, P.R. China September 22-25 1997) Ed. Y. Zhiven, L. Peijun, F. Xiqi, X.Zhilin, Shanghai institute of Ceramics, (1997) 263-266

“On the nature of PbWO4 blue emission”
N. Belsky, S. M. Klimov, V. V. Mikhailin, C. Pedrini, M. V. Korzhik, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
in the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Inorganic scintillators and their applications (SCINT97, P.R. China September 22-25 1997) Ed. Y. Zhiven, L. Peijun, F. Xiqi, X.Zhilin, Shanghai institute of Ceramics, (1997) 259-262

“Photoelasticimetry for the inspection of mechanical stresses in birefringent monoaxial crystls application to PbWO4  
M. Lebeau, D. Rinaldi
Proceedings of the International Conference on INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, SCINT 97, Edited by Y. Zhiwen, F. Xiqi, L. Peijun and X. Zhilin, Press of Chinese Academy of Science – Shanghai Branch, Shanghai – P. R. China (1997).pp.230-235

“Radiation Damage Processes In Wide-Gap Scintillating Crystals. New Scintillation Materials”
M. Nikl, P. Bohacek, E. Mihokova, S. Baccaro, A. Vedda, M. Diemoz, E. Longo, M. Kobayashi, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq
Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 78  (1999), 471-478 (proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics , Como, Italy , October 5 – 9, 1998)

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Emission centers and energy transfer mechanisms in crystals based on calcium orthophosphate with whitlokite structure”
A. Romanenko
PhD thesis – Moscow State University – 1998

“Etude du système de suivi optique des cristaux scintillants du calorimètre électromagnétique de l’expérience CMS”
Marie Géléoc
Thèse de Doctorat de l’Université Paris 7, soutenue le 4 septembre 1998

“Controllo di qualità di cristalli scintillatori tramite analisi di immagini interferometriche: analisi teorica, progetto e realizzazione di un banco prova.”
Nicola Cocozzella. AA 1997-1998
Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Paone, Co-Supervisors: Prof. Giuseppe Majni, Dott. Ing. Michel Lebeau, Prof. Daniele Rinaldi – Universita’ Politecnica Delle Marche

Publications

“Decay kinetics and thermoluminescence of PbWO4: La 3+”
M. Nikl et al., (17 authors)
Applied Physics Letters Vol 71(26) (1997) 3755-3757

“Influence of stoichiometry on the optical properties of lead tungstate crystals”
A.N. Belsky et al., (12 authors)
Chemical Physics Letters 277 (1997) 65-70

“Radiation damage mechanism in PbWO4 crystal and radiation hardness quality control of PWO scintillators for CMS”
S. Baccaro et al. (12 authors)
CMS Note 1997-038

“Radiation damage kinetics in PWO crystals”
A.Annekov, E.Auffray, A.Fedorov, S.Gninenko, M. N. Golubev, M. Korshik, P. Lecoq, V. Ligun, A, Lobko, O. Missevitch, J.P. Peigneux, Yu.D. Prokoskin, A. Singovski,
CMS note 1997-008

“Performance study of a 3D smal animal PET scanner based on BaF2 crystals and a photosensitive wire chamber”
P. Bruyndonckx, Liu Xuan, S. Tavernier and Zhang Shuping
Nucl. Instr. Meth., A392 (1997) 407-413

“Studies and Proposals for an Automatic Crystal Control System.”
G.Yu.Drobychev, A.Fedorov, M.Korzhik, A.Khruschinsky, O.Missevitch, J.P.Peigneux, A.Oriboni, M.Schneegans,
CMS TN 97-036 (1997).

“Photoelasticity for the investigation of internal stress in BGO scintillating crystals “
M. Lebeau, G. Majni, N. Paone, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research, A 397 (1997) 317-322

“Time-resolved luminescence and induced absorption  in PbWO4”
D. Millers, S. Chernov, L. Grigorjeva, A. Popov, E. Auffray, I. Dafinei, P. Lecoq, M. Schneegans
Journal of Luminescence 72-74 (1997) 693-695 (proceedings ICL’96 – August 18-23, 1996, Praha, Czech Republic)

Presentations

“Control of lead tungstate crystals radiation hardness through optical transmission measurements”
A.N. Annenkov, E. Auffray, R. Chipaux, G. Yu Drobyshev, A. Fedorov, M. Geleoc, N.A. Golubev, M.V. Korzhik, P. Lecoq, A.A. Lednev, A.B.Ligun, O.V. Missevitch, V.B. Pavlenko, J.-P. Peigneux, A.V.Singovsky.
VII Int. Conf. On Calorimetry in High Energy Physics. Univ. Of Arisona, Tucson, USA. Nov. 9-14, 1997.

“The study of small and large size LuAlO3Ce3+”
C. Dujardin, C. Pedrini, W. Blanc, J.C. Gâcon, J.C. van ‘t Spijker, O.W. Frijns, C.E.E. van Eijk, P. Dorenbos, R. Chen, A. Fremout, F. Tallouf, S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, A.G. Petrosyan
Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 1997, Albuquerque, USA,
Nuclear Science Symposium, 1997, IEEE, Vol 1, 9-15 Nov 1997 Pages: 174-178

“Performance assessment and in-vivo imaging using the VUB-PET system”
P. Bruyndonckx, P. Carnochan, L. Xuan, W.Yonggang, D. Visvikis, D.Duxbury, S. Tavernier
Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 1997, Albuquerque, USA,
Nuclear Science Symposium, 1997, IEEE, Vol 2, 9-15 Nov 1997 Pages: 1417-1422

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Etudes de cristaux scintillants de tungstate de plomb et de prototypes de calorimиtre йlectromagnйtique pour le projet CMS au LHC”
F. Gautheron
University of Lyon, France, 1997

Publications

“PbWO4 scintillators with new Avalanche Photodiode readout for high energy physics”
V.B. Zalesski, O.V. Missevitch, V.A. Pilipovich, M.V. Korzhik, A.A. Fyodorov, A.R. Lopatik, N.L. Gorodishenin, D.S. Shvarkov, A.V. Dolgopolov, P.M. Shagin, A.V. Singovskii, V.P. Sugonyaev, J.-P. Peigneux, J.-P. Mendiburu, P. Nedellec, D. Sillou, J.-P. Vialle,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 43, No. 3, Jun. 1996, 1307-1309

“Progress in PbWO4 scintillating crystal.”
Fyodorov A., Korzhik M., Pavlenko V., Faure J.-L., Binon F., Kachanov V., Singovski A., Annenkov A., Ligun V., Peigneux J.-P., Vialle J.-P.,
Radiation measurements Vol.26, No. 1, 1996, 105-107

“The influence of additional doping on the spectroscopic and scintillation parameters of PbWO4 crystals”
A.N.Annenkov, A.A.Fedorov, Ph.Galez, A.V.Kachanov, M.V.Korzhik et al.,
Phys. stat.sol.,(a)156(1996) 493

“Scintillation in Cerium-activited gadolinium based crystals”
D.M.Kondratiev, M.V.Korzhik, A.A.Fedorov, A.V.Pavlenko,
Phys. stat.sol.,(b)197(1996) 251

“Stability of scintillation light yield under small radiation doses”
A.A. Fyodorov, V.B. Pavlenko, M.V. Korzhik, W.P. Trower and R.F. Zouevsky,
Radiation Measurements, Vol.26, No.2, pp.215-219, 1996

“R&D for the study of New, Fast and Radiation hard Scintillators for Calorimetry at LHC/RD18”
G. Gratta et al., (60 authors)
CERN/LHCC 96-19, LDRB status report/RD18 – february 20, 1996

“Extensive studies on CeF3 crystals, a good candidate for electromagnetic calorimetry at future accelerators”
E. Auffray et al., (41 authors)
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 383 (1996) 367-390
CERN-PPE-96-064

“Design and physical characteristics of a small animal PET using BaF2 crystals and a photosensitive wire chamber”
Peter Bruyndonckx, Liu Xuan, S. Rajeswaran, W. Smolik, S. Tavernier and Zhang Shuping
Nucl. Instr. Meth., A382 (1996) 589-600

“Cerium doped heavy metal fluoride glasses, a possible alternative for electromagnetic calorimetry”
E. Auffray et al., (16 authors)
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 380 (1996) 524-536
CERN-PPE-96-035, CMS note 1996-107

“Performance of a cerium fluoride crystal matrix measured in high-energy particle beams”
E. Auffray et al., ”
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A378 (1996) 171‑178.

“Results from tests on matrices of lead tungstate crystals using high energy beams”
J. P. Peigneux et al., (35 authors)
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 378 (1996) 410-426
CERN-PPE-95-197

“Use of a neural network to exploit light division in a triangular scintillating crystal”
S. Delorme, R. Frei, C. Joseph, J.‑F. Loude, C. Morel
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 373 (1996): 111-118

“Slow components in the photoluminescence and scintillation decays of PbWO4 single crystals”
M. Nikl, K. Nitsch, K. Polak, E. Auffray, I. Dafinei, P. Lecoq, P. Reiche, R. Ueker,
Phys. Stat.Sol B195 (1996) 311-323
CMS TN 1995-187.

“Performance of a Cerium Fluoride crystal matrix measured in High-energy particle beams”
E. Auffray et al., (45 authors)
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 378 (1996) 171-178;
CMS TN 1995/185

Presentations

“Cerium-doped lutetium-based single crystal scintillators”
W.P.Trower, M.V.Korzhik, A.A.Fedorov S.A. Smirnova, V.A.Aslanov,
Proc. Int. Conf. on Inorganic Scintillators and Their Applications, SCINT95, 1996, Delft University Press, The Netherland, p. 355

“Performance of a small animal PET scanner based on photosensitive wire chambers
P. Bruyndonckx, Liu Xuan and S. Tavernier
Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, 1996, page 1335-1339

“Study of the light yield of LuAP:Ce scinitllating crystals”
S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, Chen Ruru, F. Tallouf
Proceedings of the IEEE-NSS Conference 1996, page 707-710

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Design, feasibility study and construction of an animal PET scanner using a multistep avalanche chamber and Barium Fluoride scintillator”
Zhang Shuping
PhD in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 1996

Publications

“Decay Kinetics of Ce3+ Ions under Gamma and KrF Excimer Laser Excitation  in CeF3 Single Crystals”
M. Nikl et al., (10 authors)
J. Phys. Cond. Matter 7 (1995) 6355-6364

“LuAlO3:Ce-a high density, high speed scintillator for gamma detection”
W.W.Moses, S.E.Derenzo, A.Fyodorov, M.Korzhik, A.Gektin, B.Minkov, and A. Aslanov.
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-42 (1995) 275-279

“Mossbauer spectrometer based on personal computer equipped with the YalO3:ce scintillation crystal”
Zak D., Mashlan M., O.V. Missevitch, Kholmetskii A. L., Evdokimov V.A., Lopatik A.R., Fyodorov A.A.,
Acta physica slovaca, Vol.45, No.1, 1995, 85-88

“Optimization of the lead-tungstate crystal/photodetector system for high-energy physics”
G.Yu.Drobushev, A.A.Fyodorov, V.A.Kachanov, M.V.Korzhik, O.V.Misevich, and J.-P. Peigneux.
IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. 42(4)341-344, 1995

“Optimization of lead-tungstate crystal/photdetector interface”
G. Yu. Drobyshev, A.A. Fyodorov, V.A. Kachanov, O.V. Missevitch, J.-P. Peigneux,
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 42, No.4, Aug. 1995, 341-344

“Beam test results of a PbWO4 crystal calorimeter prototype”
G.A. Alexeev, F. Binon, A.V. Dolgopolov, S.V. Donskov, A.A. Fyodorov, V.A. Kachanov, V.Yu. Khodyrev, M.V. Korzhik, V.A. Medvedev, O.V. Missevitch, J.-P. Peigneux, Yu.D. Prokoshkin, P.M. Shagin, A.V. Singovskii, V.L. Solovyanov, S.M. Stepushkine, V.P. Sugonyev, J.-P. Vialle,
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A364 (1995) 307-310

“Mini and micro transducers for Mossbauer spectroscopy”
Evdokimov V.A., Mashlan M., Zak D., Fyodorov A.A., Kholmetskii A. L., O.V. Missevitch,
Nucl. Inst. and Meth. B95 (1995) 278-280.

“Lead tungstate scintillator parameters”
M.V.Korzhik, G. Yu Drobyshev, A.A. Fyodorov, V.B. Pavlenko, J.-P. Peigneux, J.-L. Faure, A.N. Annenkov, V.D. Ligun, and W.P. Trower.
IEEE Nucl. Sci. Abst. – 1995 – NSS36-21 – p.58

“The design and physical characteristics of a small animal PET”
P.M. Bloomfield, … S. Rajeswaran, … et al.
Phys. Med. Biol., 40 – 6 (1995) 1105-1126

“The Crystal Clear Collaboration, Status Report R&D for the study of new fast and radiation hard scintillators for calorimetry at LHC : RD18”
The Crystal Clear Collaboration members, (93 authors)
CERN/DRDC/94-53, RD-18/Status Report, 26 january 1995

“Lead Tungstate (PbWO4) Scintillators for LHC EM-Calorimetry”
P. Lecoq et al., (11 authors)
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 365 (1995) 291-298
CERN/PPE/94-225, CMS TN/94-308,

Presentations

“Test Beam Results of a Cerium Fluoride Crystal Matrix”
E.Auffray et al, (42 authors)
Nucl. Phys. B, Proc Suppl. 44 (1995) 57-62 (Proceedings of 4th International Conference on “Advanced Technology and Particule Physics” ICATPP-4, Como, Italy, October 3-7 1994)
CMS TN/94-271

“Test Beam Results of a CeF3 Crystal Matrix”
T. Beckers et al., (39 authors)
in the proceedings of the 5th  International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, Upton, NY, USA 25 Sep- 1 Oct 1994. Ed. H.A. Gordon & D. Rueger, Edition Word Scientific, Singapore (1995) 89-96

“Local trap centres in PbWO4 crystals”
E.Auffray, I.Dafinei, P.Lecoq, M.Schneegans,
in the proceedings of the conference “EURODIM 94, Seventh Europhysical Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials, Lyon France, July 5 – 8, 1994, Radiation effects and defects in Solids, Vol 135 (1995) 343-347

“Radiation induced Colour centres in Cerium Fluoride”
E.Apostol, I. Dafinei, G.H. Mitroica, T. Tanase, V. Topa, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, M. Schneegans,
in the proceedings of the conference “EURODIM 94, Seventh Europhysical Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials, Lyon France, July 5 – 8, 1994, Radiation effects and defects in Solids, Vol 135 (1995) 361-366

“Defects induced by irradiation at room temperature on Cerium Fluoride”
E.Auffray, I.Dafinei, P.Lecoq, M.Schneegans,
in the proceedings of the conference “EURODIM 94, Seventh Europhysical Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials, Lyon France, July 5 – 8, 1994, Radiation effects and defects in Solids, Vol 135 (1995) 337-341

“Use of a neural network to exploit light division in a triangular scintillating crystal”
C. Morel, S. Delorme, R. Frei, C. Joseph, J.‑F. Loude
Proc. SCINT’1995, edited by P. Dorenbos and C. van Eijk, Delft University Press, pp. 591-595
Conference : SCINT’1995, International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, Sep 28-Nov 1 1995, Delft, The Netherlands

“Applications of Photoelasticity to quality inspection of scintillating crystals”
M. Lebeau, G. Majni, N. Paone, D. Rinaldi
Proc. SCINT’1995, edited by P. Dorenbos and C. van Eijk, Delft University Press, pp. 515-518
Conference : SCINT’1995, International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, Sep 28-Nov 1 1995, Delft, The Netherlands

“Scintillation characteristics and radiation hardness of PbWO4 scintillators to be used at the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter”
E. Auffray, I. Dafinei, F. Gautheron, O. Lafond-Puyet, P. Lecoq, M. Schneegans
In theProceedings of 3th international conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Applications, SCINT95, Deft, The Netherland August 28- September 1, 1995, Ed. P. Dorenbos, CWE Van Eijk, Delft University of Technology, Edition Delft press university (1995) 282-285;
CMS TN 95-127

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Investigation of a CeF3 crystal matrix as a prototype for an electromagnetic calorimeter in experiments at the future LHC collider”
H.Hillemanns
Ph.D in Physics, University of Aachen, Germany, 1995

“Design and construction of a small PET scanner using BaF2 scintillation crystals”
Peter Bruyndonckx
PhD in science – Vrije Universiteit Brussel – 1995

“Etude des méchanismes de scintillation et des modifications sous irradiation des propriétés du Fluorure de Cérium en vue de son utilization en calorimétrie électromagnétique de haute resolution”
Etiennette Auffray,
Ph.D in Physics, Université Paris IV, France,  1995.

Publications

“A measurement of the first Townsend coefficient as a function of the electric field for a TMAE-He mixture”
Zhang Shuping, P. Bruyndonckx, M. Goldberg and S. Tavernier
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 41, n°6, 2671-2674, December 1994

“A first electromagnetic calorimeter prototype of PbWO4 crystals”
O. V. Buyanov, R. Chipaux, A. A. Fyodorov et al,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A349 (1994) 62‑69.

“A method for detection of explosives based on nuclear resonance absorption of gamma rays in 14N”
D. Vartsky, G. Engler, M. Goldberg
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A348, 2-3  (1994) 688-691

“Study of a high resolution 3D PET scanner”
Z. Shuping, P. Bruyndonckx, M. Goldberg and S. Tavernier
Nucl. Instr. Meth., A348 (1994) 607-612

“Behaviour of CeF3 scintillator in a LHC-like environment”
R. Chipaux, J.‑L. Faure, P. Rebourgeard, G. Dauphin, J. Safieh,
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A345 (1994) 440‑444.

“The PC-AT based Mossbauer spectrometer”
M.Mashlan, D.Zak, A.Cholmeckij, V.Evdokimov, O.Misevic, A.Fedorov, A.Lopatik, V.Snasel.
Acta UPO, Fac. rer. nat., Vol.116, Physica XXXIII(1994), 9-19

“High-performance transmission Mossbauer spectroscopy with YAlO3:Ce scintillation detector”
A.A.Fyodorov, A.L.Kholmetski, M.V.Korzhik, A.R.Lopatik, M.Mashlan, O.V.Misevich.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. B88(1994)462-464.

“YAlO3:Ce-Am light pulsers as a gain monitor for undoped CsI detectors in a magnetic field.”
Massaki Kobayashi, Takao Shinkava, Takahiro Sato, Shoiro Sugimoto, Michail V. Korzhik, Andrey A.Fyodorov, Vasilij A.Kachanov.
Nucl. Instr. Meth.  A337(1994)355-361.

“A first electromagnetic calorimeter prototype of PbWO4 crystals”
O.V.Buyanov, R.Chipaux, A.A.Fyodorov, V.A.Kachanov, V.Yu.Khodyrev, M.V.Korzhik, J.L.Faure, J.P.Peigneux, M.Poulet, Yu.D.Prokoshkin, P.Rebourgeard, V.V.Rykalin, P.M.Shagin, P.A.Semenov, A.V.Singovsky, V.L.Solovianov.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A349(1994)62-69.

“Spectroscopy and origin of radiating centres in PbWO4 single crystals”
M.V.Korzhik, V.B.Pavlenko, T.N.Timoschenko, V.A.Kachanov, A.V.Singovsky, A.N.Annenkov, V.A.Ligun, A.A.Fyodorov, J.P.Peigneux, J.M.Moreau.
Preprint LAPP-EXP-94.01. Janvier 1994.

“Further progress in lead tungstate crystals”
A.Fyodorov, M.Korzhik, O.Misevitch, V.Pavlenko, V.Kachanov, A.Singovsky, A.N.Annenkov, V.A.Ligun, J.P.Peigneux, J.P.Vialle, J.L.Faure, F.Binon.
Preprint LAPP-EXP-94.24. December 1994.
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record. 114-118, 1994

“Progress in PbWO4 scintillating crystals”
A.Fyodorov, M.Korzhik, O.Misevitch, V.Pavlenko, V.Kachanov, A.Singovsky, A.N.Annenkov, V.A.Ligun, J.P.Peigneux, J.P.Vialle, J.L.Faure, F.Binon.
Preprint LAPP-EXP-94.25. December 1994.

“YAlO3:Ce scintillation detector for transmission Mossbauer spectroscopy”
M.V. Korzhik, O.V. Missevitch, A.L. Kholmetskii, A.R. Lopatik, A.A. Fyodorov,
4-th Seeheim workshop on Mossbauer spectroscopy. Abstracts. Seeheim, Germany. Institute fur Anorganische und Analiytiche Chemie, der Jogannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, 1994, p. 126

“Simple high-performance Mossbauer spectrometer. 4-th Seeheim workshop on Mossbauer spectroscopy.”
M. Mashlan, D. zak, V. Snasel, V.A. O.V. Missevitch, Evdokimov, A.L. Kholmetskii, A.R. Lopatik, A.A. Fyodorov,
Abstracts. Seeheim, Germany. Institute fur Anorganische und Analiytiche Chemie, der Jogannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, 1994, p. 133

“Spectroscopy and origin of radiating centers in PbWO4 single crystals.”
MV Korzhik, VB Pavlenko, TN Timoschenko, AN Annenkov, VA Ligun, …
Phys. Status Solidi A, 1994

Presentations

“Study of neutron damage resistance of some scintillating crystals and associated photodetectors with the nuclear reactor ULYSSE”  
R. Chipaux, J.‑L. Faure, J.‑P. Pansart et al.,
in Scintillator and Phosphor Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Ed. M. J. Weber, P. Lecoq, R. C. Ruchti, C. Woody, W. M. Yen, R. Zhu; vol.348 (1994)481‑486.

“Heavy Fluoride Glasses as an Alternative to Crystals in High Energy Physics Calorimetry”
E.Auffray, I.Dafinei, P.Lecoq, M.Schneegans,
in Scintillator and Phosphor Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Ed. M. J. Weber, P. Lecoq, R. C. Ruchti, C. Woody, W. M. Yen, R. Zhu; vol.348 (1994) 217-224

“First results on large cerium fluoride crystals in a test beam”
E.Auffray, et al, (17 authors)
in Scintillator and Phosphor Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Ed. M. J. Weber, P. Lecoq, R. C. Ruchti, C. Woody, W. M. Yen, R. Zhu; vol.348 (1994) 117 – 122
CERN PPE/94-112 , CMS TN/94-235

“Lead Tungstate for High Energy Calorimetry”
I.Dafinei, E.Auffray, P.Lecoq, M.Schneegans,
in Scintillator and Phosphor Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Ed. M. J. Weber, P. Lecoq, R. C. Ruchti, C. Woody, W. M. Yen, R. Zhu; vol.348 (1994) 99-104 ;
CMS TN 1994-317

“Status of Cerium Fluoride Performances”
E.Auffray, I.Dafinei, P.Lecoq, M.Schneegans,
in Scintillator and Phosphor Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Ed. M. J. Weber, P. Lecoq, R. C. Ruchti, C. Woody, W. M. Yen, R. Zhu; vol.348 (1994) 111-116

“Mechanism of scintillations in cerium-doped gadolinium orthosilicate Gd2SiO5:Ce crystals”
V.G.Barushevsky, D.M.Kondratiev, M.V.Korzhik, V.B.Pavlenko, A.A.Fedorov.
Proceedings of the 1993 international conference on luminescence. ICL’93, Storrs, CT, USA 9-13 August 1993. p.956-959. Elsevier 1994.
Journal of Luminescence, 60&61(1994)956

“Fast and heavy GdAlO3:Ce Scintillators.”
S.A.Smirnova, L.I.Kazakova, A.A.Fyodorov, M.V.Korzhik.  
Proceedings of the 1993 international conference on luminescence. ICL’93, Storrs, CT, USA 9-13 August 1993. p.960-963. Elsevier 1994.
Scintillators. Journal of Luminescence 60&61(1994)960-962.

“Optimization of the lead-tungstate crystal/photodetector system for high-energy physics”
G.Yu.Drobushev, A.A.Fyodorov, V.A.Kachanov, M.V.Korzhik, O.V.Misevich, and J.-P. Peigneux.
1994 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conference Record, Oct.30-Nov.5, 1994 Norfolk.
CMS TN 1994/313

“Further progress in lead tungstate crystals”
S.Alekseev, V.Kachanov, V.Khodirev, P.Shagin, P.Semenov, A.Singovsky, V.Solovianov, D.Baryshevsky, G.Y.Drobushev, A.Fedorov, M.Korzhik, O.Missevitch, V.Pavlenko, R.Zuevsky, J.P.Peigneux, M.Poulet, J.P.Vialle, M.Schneegans, F.Binon.
1994 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conference Record, Oct.30-Nov.5, 1994 Norfolk.

“LuAlO3:Ce-a high density, high speed scintillator for gamma detection”
W.W.Moses, S.E.Derenzo, A.A.Fyodorov, M.Korzhik, A.V.Gektin, B.Minkov.
1994 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conference Record, Oct.30-Nov.5, 1994 Norfolk.

“A broad-range yttrium aluminum perovskite-based dosimeter”
A.A.Fyodorov, R.F.Zuevsky, W.P.Trower.
1994 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conference Record, Oct.30-Nov.5, 1994 Norfolk. Volume: 2, On page(s): 978-981 vol.2

“First results from a prototype PET scanner using BaF2 scintillator and photosensitive Wire Chambers”
S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx, J. Debruyne, L. Etienne, H. Folger, W. Hartmann,
S. Rajeswaran, W. Smolik, L. Van Lancker, Zhang Shuping
Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, October 30 – November 5, 1994, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, pg. 1885-1887

Publications

“Crystal Clear Collaboration, R&D for study of new fast and radiation hard scintillators for calorimetry at LHC : RD-1”
The Crystal Clear Collaboration members (86 authors),
CERN/DRDC/93-31, RD-18/Status Report, 03 September 1993

“Further results on cerium fluoride crystals”
The Crystal Clear Collaboration members (86 authors),
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 332 (1993) 373-394

“Results on new scintillating crystals from the `Crystal Clear’ Collaboration”
P. Lecoq
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol 40, ( 4) 1993, Pages: 409 – 412,
DOI: 10.1109/23.256590

“Beam studies of EM-calorimeter prototype built on PbWO4 crystals”
O.V.Buyanov, A.A.Fiodorov, V.B.Gorodnichev, V.A.Kachanov, V.Yu.Khodyrev, M.V.Korzhik, V.A.Medvedev, V.V.Mochalov, Yu.D.Prokoshkin, V.V.Rykalin, P.M.Shagin, P.A.Semenov, A.V.Singovsky, V.L.Solovianov, M.N.Ukhanov.
Preprint IHEP 93-114. ОЭФ, Protvino 1993.

“YAlO3:Ce-Am light pulsers as a gain monitor for undoped CsI detectors in a magnetic field”
M.Kobauashi, T.Sinkava, T.Sato, S.Sugimoto, M.V.Korzhik, A.A.Fyodorov, V.A.Kachanov.
KEK Preprint 93-92, May 1993.

“Spectroscopy and scintillation properties of cerium doped YAlO3 single crystals”
V.G.Baryshevsky, M.V.Korzhik, B.I.Minkov, S.A.Smirnova, A.A.Fyodorov, P.Dorenbos, CWE van Eijk.
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 5(1993) 7893-7902.

“Prospects of production of fast scintillators based on doped compound structure oxides for electromagnetic calorimeters”
V.G.Baryshevsky, D.M.Kondratyev, M.V.Korzhik, A.A.Fyodorov, V.I.Moroz, V.A.Kachanov, B.I.Minkov.
Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., Vol.21, No.1, pp. 111-112, 1993

“Fast-acting scintillators based on doped crystals of REAlO3”
M.V.Korzhik, V.I.Moroz, V.B.Pavlenko, A.A.Fyodorov, S.A.Smirnova.
Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., Vol.21, No.1, pp. 113-115, 1993.

“A driving system for mossbauer spectrometer”
M.Maslan, A.Cholmekij, V.Evdokimov, O.Misevic, A.Fedorov, D.Zak.
Acta UPO Fac. rer. nat., Vol. 111, Phusica XXXII(1993), 9-16.

“Influence of growth defects on the scintillation characteristics of YAlO 3: Ce single crystals”
P Dorenbos, MV Korzhik, AP Kudryavtseva, SV Lyubetskii, BI Minkov, …
Journal of Applied Spectroscopy 59 (3), 633-638, 1993

Presentations

“YAlO3:Re3+ scintillators: application for ionizing radiation detection”
A.A.Fyodorov, M.V.Korzhik, S.A.Smirnova, G.Yu.Drobushev.
1993 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp. Conference Record, Oct.31-Nov.6, 1993 San Francisco.

“Properties and Radiation Hardness of PbWO 4 crystals”
VA Kachanov, Yu D Prokoshkin, AV Singovsky, VG Baryshevsky, JP Korzhik, J-P Peigneux, M Poulet, AA Fyodorov.
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1993., 1993 IEEE Conference Record. 146-150, 1993

“Properties and beam test of PbWO4 crystals”
V.A.Kachanov, Y.D.Prokoshkin, A.V.Singovsky, V.G.Baryshevsky, M.V.Korzhik, J.P.Peigneux, M.Poulet, A.A.Fyodorov.
1993 IEEE Nucl. Sci. Symp.  Conference Record, Oct.31-Nov.6, 1993 San Francisco.

“A micro-drive system for cosmic Mossbauer spectrometer”
V.A. Evdokimov, A.A. Fedorov, A.L. Kholmetskii, A.R. Lopatik, O.V. Missevitch,
Intern. Conf. ICAME-93. Abstracts. Vancouver, 1993. p.56

“High-expressed personal Mossbauer spectrometer”
V.A. Evdokimov, A.A. Fedorov, A.L. Kholmetskii, A.R. Lopatik, M. Mashlan, O.V. Missevitch,
Intern. Conf. ICAME-93. Abstracts. Vancouver, 1993. p.56

“Rare-earth aluminium perovskite scintillators”
VG Baryshevsky, GY Drobyshev, AA Fyodorov, MV Korzhik, VI Moroz, VB Pavlenko, CWE van Eijk, P Dorenbos, SA Smirnova, A Egorytcheva, G Savinova, VA Kachanov.
Heavy Scintillators for Scientific and Industrial Applications: Proceedings of the” Cristal 2000″ International Workshop. p. 195, 1993

PhD thesis in the framework of Crystal Clear

“Etude de nouveaux cristaux scintillants pour la calorimétrie aux futus collisioneurs de hautes Energies”
D. Ferrere
Ph.D in Physics, Université de Savoie, France, 1993.

Publications

“BaF2 scintillators with MWPC-TMAE readout for Positron Emission Tomography”
P. Bruyndonckx, M. Goldberg, S. Tavernier and Z. Shuping
In “Heavy Scintillators for Scientific and Industrial Applications”, Editions Frontières, September 1992, p251-259

“A fully 3D small PET scanner”
S. Tavernier, P. Bruyndonckx and Zhang Shuping
Phys. Med. Biol. 37n°3, 1992, 635-643

“Study of the spatial resolution in gamma detectors using photosensitive wire chambers in view of their use as high resolution PET scanners”
P. Bruyndonckx, Z. Shuping and S. Tavernier
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A323 (1992) 54-59

“Light source for energy stabilization of calorimetric detectors based on photodetectors”
V.A.Kachanov, V.V,Rykalin, V.L.Solovianov, V.Yu.Hodyrev, M.V.Korzhik, V.I.Moroz, A.S.Lobko, A.A,Fyodorov, A.F.Novgorodov, B.A.Khacaturov, S.A.Smirnova.
Nucl. Instr. Meth.  A314(1992)215-218.

“YAlO3:Ce fast scintillators for detectors of ionizing radiation”
V.G.Baryshevsky, M.V.Korzhik, V.I.Moroz, V.B.Pavlenko, A.S.Lobko, A.A,Fyodorov, S.A.Smirnov, O.A.Egorycheva, V.A.Kachanov.
IET, Vol.35, N 3, Part1, May-June, 1992, pp. 440-443.

“Single crystals of tungsten compounds as promising materials for the total absorption detectors of thr e.m. calorimeters”
V.G.Baryshevsky, M.V.Korzhik, V.I.Moroz, V.B.Pavlenko, A.S.Lobko, A.A,Fyodorov, V.A.Kachanov, V.L.Solovianov, B.I.Zadneprovsky, V.A.Nefyodov, P.V.Nefyodov, B.A,Dorogovin, L.L.Nagornaja.
Nucl. Instr. Meth.  A322(1992)231-234.

“YAlO3:Ce scintillators: application for X- and soft -ray detection.”
M.V.Korzhik, O.V.Misevich, A.A.Fyodorov.
Nucl. Instr. Meth.  B72(1992)499-501.

“Apparatus to measure scintillation time parameters”
R.F.Zuevskii, M.V.Korzhik, A.S.Lobko, A.A.Fedorov.
IET, Vol.35, N 6, Part1, Nov.-Dec. 1992, pp.1029-1031.

Presentations

“Results on new scintillating crystals from the `Crystal Clear’ collaboration”
P. Lecoq
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE, 1992, 248 – 250 vol.1,
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301213

Publcations

“YAlO3:Ce-fast-acting scintillator for detection of ionizing radiation.”
V.G.Baryshevsky, M.V.Korzhik, V.I.Moroz, V.B.Pavlenko, A.A.Fyodorov.
Nucl. Instr. Meth. B58(1991) 291-293.

“Fast-Response Scintillating Yalo3-Pr Crystals”
Vg Baryshevskii, Rf Zuevskii, Mv Korzhik, As Lobko, Vi Moroz, …
Pisma V Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki 17 (24), 82-85

“Characterization by gamma-ray diffractometry of the mosaic structure Bi4Ge3O12, Bi12GeO20 and BaF2 crystals”
F. Allegretti, R. Caciuffo, F. de Notaristefani, F. Ferroni, O. Francescangeli, G. Majni, M. Mattioli, D. Rinaldi
Nuclear Instruments And Methods In Physics Research, A302 (1991) 455-459.

“Improvement of motion system of mossbauer spectrometer”
V.A.Evdokimov, Yu.G.Kononov, A.S. Lobko, A.A.Fedorov.
IET, Vol.32, N 3, Part1, May-June, 1989, pp.550-553.
Soviet Journal Of Automation And Information Sciences 32 (3 Pt 1), 1985, 550-552

“Proceedings of the International Symposium on the use of wire chambers in Medical Imaging”
Scientific Editors : F. Deconinck, M. Defrise and S. Tavernier
Edited by North-Holland (1988)
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A269 (1988), R3-R4

“Controller for electrodynamic drive of mossbauer spectrometer”
V.A.Evdokimov, Yu.G.Kononov, A.S. Lobko, A.A.Fedorov.
IET, Vol.29, N 1-3, 1986, pp. 313-316.

“Stable argon laser with phase mode locking”
VV Kuz’min, MG Livshits, AA Fedorov.
Quantum Electronics 15 (10), 1445-1447 (1985)

“Interface of mossbauer spectrometer”
V.A.Evdokimov, Yu.g.Kononov, A.S. Lobko, A.A.Fedorov.
IET, Vol.28, N 1, Part 1. Jan.-Feb., 1985, pp.70-73.

Presentations

“Prospects of production of fast scintillators based on doped compound structure oxides for electromagnetic calorimeters”
V.G.Barushevsky, D.M.Kondratiev, M.V.Korzhik, A.A.Fyodorov, V.I.Moroz, V.A.Kachanov, B.I.Minkov.
LUMDETR’91, Proceedings, Riga 1991.

“Fast-acting scintillators on the basis of doped crystals REAlO3.”
M.V.Korzhik, V.I.Moroz, V.B.Pavlenko, A.A.Fyodorov, S.A.Smirnova.
LUMDETR’91, Proceedings, Riga 1991, В11.