[PDF][PDF] Technical advances in current PET and hybrid imaging systems

JS Lee - Open Nucl Med J, 2010 - scholar.archive.org
The continuing efforts of investigators to achieve the best physical and clinical performances
from PET (positron emission tomography) and related hybrid cameras (PET/CT and …

Investigation of optimization-based reconstruction with an image-total-variation constraint in PET

Z Zhang, J Ye, B Chen, AE Perkins… - Physics in Medicine …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Interest remains in reconstruction-algorithm research and development for possible
improvement of image quality in current PET imaging and for enabling innovative PET …

The engineering and initial results of a transformable low-cost high-resolution PET camera

H Li, WH Wong, H Baghaei, J Uribe… - … on Nuclear Science, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a high-resolution transformable positron emission tomography (PET)
camera that can be configured into either a whole-body mode (83-cm detector ring diameter …

Application-specific nuclear medical in vivo imaging devices

AJ Chaudhari, RD Badawi - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear medical imaging devices, such as those enabling photon emission imaging
(gamma camera, single photon emission computed tomography, or positron emission …

Asymmetrically placed cross-coupled scintillation crystals

WH Wong, J Uribe, H Baghaei, H Li - US Patent 7,238,943, 2007 - Google Patents
(21) Appl. No.: 10/356,679 Wong et al.,“An elongated position sensitive block detector
design (22) Filed: Jan. 31, 2003 using the PMT quadrant sharing configuration and …

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 …

Real time digital implementation of the high-yield-pileup-event-recover (HYPER) method

J Liu, H Li, Y Wang, S Kim, Y Zhang… - 2007 IEEE Nuclear …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have proposed a high-yield-pileup-event-recover (HYPER) method that can process
scintillation signals in very high count-rate situations where multiple-event pileups are …

Production method for making position-sensitive radiation detector arrays

WH Wong, J Uribe, H Baghaei, H Li - US Patent 6,956,214, 2005 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are described for a production method for making position-
sensitive radiation detector arrays. A method includes applying a plurality of masks to a …

An efficient detector production method for position-sensitive scintillation detector arrays with 98% detector packing fraction

J Uribe, WH Wong, H Baghaei, R Farrell… - … on Nuclear Science, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Position-sensitive scintillation-detector arrays (PSSDAs) are used in nuclear-imaging
methods such as PET. The kind of technique selected in producing the PSSDA determines …

A programmable high-resolution ultra-fast delay generator

Y Liu, H Li, Y Wang, T **ng, H Baghaei… - … on Nuclear Science, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a high-resolution, low-dead-time digital delay method in which the
performance is independent of the total delay time. We have implemented a low-dead-time …