Engineering and performance (NEMA and animal) of a lower-cost higher-resolution animal PET/CT scanner using photomultiplier-quadrant-sharing detectors

WH Wong, H Li, H Baghaei, Y Zhang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
The dedicated murine PET (MuPET) scanner is a high-resolution, high-sensitivity, and low-cost
preclinical PET camera designed and manufactured at our laboratory. In this article, we …

A new statistics-based online baseline restorer for a high count-rate fully digital system

H Li, C Wang, H Baghaei, Y Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of this work is to develop a novel, accurate, real-time digital baseline restorer using
online statistical processing for a high count-rate digital system such as positron emission …

A real time coincidence system for high count-rate TOF or non-TOF PET cameras using hybrid method combining AND-logic and time-mark technology

C Wang, H Li, RA Ramirez, Y Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully digital FPGA-based high count-rate coincidence system has been developed for TOF
(Time of Flight) and non-TOF PET cameras. Using a hybrid of AND-logic and Time-mark …

An accurate timing alignment method with time-to-digital converter linearity calibration for high-resolution TOF PET

H Li, C Wang, S An, X Lu, Y Dong, S Liu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate PET system timing alignment minimizes the coincidence time window and therefore
reduces random events and improves image quality. It is also critical for time-of-flight (TOF) …

A high-resolution time-of-flight clinical PET detection system using a gapless PMT-quadrant-sharing method

WH Wong, H Li, Y Zhang, R Ramirez… - … on Nuclear Science, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed a high-resolution Photomultiplier-Quadrant-Sharing (PQS) PET system for
human imaging. This system is made up of 24 detector panels. Each panel (bank) consists of 3 …

The system design, engineering architecture, and preliminary results of a lower-cost high-sensitivity high-resolution positron emission mammography camera

Y Zhang, RA Ramirez, H Li, S Liu, S An… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A lower-cost high-sensitivity high-resolution positron emission mammography (PEM) camera
is developed. It consists of two detector modules with the planar detector bank of 20 × 12 …

Beam Test of the Time Resolution of the BESⅢ Endcap TOF

AN Shao-Hui, WU Chong, LI Xin, C Hong-Fang… - Chinese Physics …, 2005 - cpc.ihep.ac.cn
The Endcap TOF (ETOF) of Beijing Spectrometer (BESⅢ) consists of 2× 48 pieces of trapezoidal
scintillator (BC408). Its main physics goal is to reach the intrinsic time resolution of 80ps …

Progress on the EXPLORER project: towards a total body PET scanner for human imaging

R Badawi, W Liu, E Berg, Y Lv, T Xu, S An, Y Dong… - 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
223 Objectives: Long axial field of view PET for humans offers the promise of a step-change
in molecular imaging research and clinical practice. The EXPLORER Consortium is …

Research on a new method to evaluate the hydrostatic pressure of cement slurries

…, L Aiping, X Chengbin, A Shaohui - IADC/SPE Asia Pacific …, 2012 - onepetro.org
Aimed at the oil industry short of a method to evaluate the hydrostatic pressure of cement
slurries, by establishing the method of measuring cement slurries’ static gel strength (SGS) and …

A lower-cost high-resolution LYSO detector development for positron emission mammography (PEM)

RA Ramirez, Y Zhang, S Liu, H Li… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In photomultiplier-quadrant-sharing (PQS) geometry for positron emission tomography
applications, each PMT is shared by four blocks and each detector block is optically coupled to …