Novel staggered scintillator configurations for brain TOF-DOI PET detector

L Blackberg, S Sajedi, G El Fakhri, H Sabet - 2020 - Soc Nuclear Med
386 Objectives: Development of brain dedicated PET scanners, and other organ specific or
unconventional geometries, requires high performance detectors capable of providing high …

Study of a new PET detector design with combined DOI/TOF features

V Spanoudaki, C Levin - 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
471 Objectives In an effort to enhance image quality and quantification we propose a PET
detector design featuring both photon depth of interaction (DoI) and time of flight (ToF). The …

Comparison of measurement and simulation using GATE with optical photon tracking for a DOI PET detector

B McIntosh, A Goertzen - 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
1540 Objectives We are using GATE simulations to model a dual-ended readout LSO based
PET detector with DOI capability. In this work we attempt to validate simulations of DOI …

New Detector Designs for High Resolution Brain PET

L Bläckberg, S Sajedi, G El Fakhri… - 2019 IEEE Nuclear …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The goal of this work is to design a detector with≤ 2 mm intrinsic resolution and multiple
levels of depth of interaction (DOI), suitable for brain dedicated Positron Emission …

High sensitivity and high resolution dynamic brain-dedicated TOF-DOI PET scanner

L Bläckberg, D Sanchez, G Borghi… - 2020 IEEE Nuclear …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We are presenting a novel design of a highperformance brain dedicated PET scanner which
focuses on optimizing imaging performance in the whole brain, as well as in head and neck …

Simulation studies of the SAVANT high resolution dedicated brain PET scanner using individually coupled APD detectors and DOI encoding

E Gaudin, M Toussaint, C Thibaudeau, R Fontaine… - 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
531 Objectives: The SAVANT (Scanner Approaching in Vivo Autoradiographic Neuro
Tomography) is a dedicated human brain PET scanner designed to achieve ultra-high …

A dual-layer TOF-DOI detector block for whole-body PET

S Liu, S An, H Li, C Wang, RA Ramirez… - … on Nuclear Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed a dual-layer high-resolution detector block for whole-body positron-emission
tomography systems. The top layer is a 13× 13 array of lutetium yttrium orthosilicate (LYSO) …

Simulation study of potential time-of-flight capabilities for a multilayer DOI-PET detector with an independent readout structure

M Watanabe, T Moriya, H Uchida… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A multilayer depth-of-interaction positron emission tomography (DOI-PET) detector with an
independent readout structure has a potential advantage as a time-of-flight (TOF)-PET …

Design of the NeuroEXPLORER, a next-generation ultra-high performance human brain PET imager

R Carson, E Berg, R Badawi, S Cherry, J Du, T Feng… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
1120 Objectives: PET human brain imaging has evolved dramatically, with the availability of
a vast array of specific radiotracers, leading to numerous imaging paradigms to measure a …

A DOI detector with crystal scatter identification capability for high sensitivity and high spatial resolution PET imaging

Z Gu, DL Prout, RW Silverman… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new phoswich detector is being developed at the Crump Institute, aiming to provide
improvements in sensitivity, and spatial resolution for PET. The detector configuration is …