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We evaluate the performance of an Omnivision OV5647 CMOS image sensor (5 Mp) for detecting radiation from Sr90 and Cs137 sources. Our experimental setup uses a Raspberry Pi 3 mini-computer for data acquisition, with image processing using…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Bonnett Del Alamo , R. Helaconde , C. Soncco , J. Bazo , A. M. Gago

We present first results from a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner demonstrator based on Resistive Plate Chambers and specialized for brain imaging. The device features a 30 cm wide cubic field-of-view and each detector comprises 40…

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an imaging technique which can be used to investigate chemical changes in human biological processes such as cancer development or neurochemical reactions. Most dynamic PET scans are currently analyzed…

Applications · Statistics 2014-11-11 Ci-Ren Jiang , John A D Aston , Jane-Ling Wang

Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) combined with Computed Tomography (CT) scans are critical in oncology to the identification of solid tumours and the monitoring of their progression. However, precise and consistent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Anissa Alloula , Daniel R McGowan , Bartłomiej W. Papież

General purpose computing on graphic processing units (GPU) is a potential method of speeding up scientific computation with low cost and high energy efficiency. We experimented with the particle physics simulation toolkit Geant4 used at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Otto Seiskari , Jukka Kommeri , Tapio Niemi

Simourg is a software based on the Geant4 toolkit and provides the Monte Carlo simulation of nuclear spectrometric setups with simple geometries for such applications as nuclear decay research, radiation safety, and nuclear medicine. With…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-07 D. S. Kovalenko , V. V. Kobychev , L. M. Kobycheva , O. V. Zueva

Organ-specific, targeted Field-of-View (FoV) Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) inserts are viable solutions for a number of imaging tasks where whole-body PET/MRI systems lack the necessary sensitivity and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-19 J. M. C. Brown , S. E. Brunner , D. R. Schaart

The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) are low-cost charged-particle detectors with good timing resolution and potentially good spatial resolution. Using RPC as gamma detector provides an opportunity for application in positron emission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-20 Zhou Weizheng , Shao Ming , Li Cheng , Chen Hongfang , Sun Yongjie , Chen Tianxiang

In positron emission tomography (PET), it is indispensable to perform attenuation correction in order to obtain the quantitatively accurate activity map (tracer distribution) in the body. Generally, this is carried out based on the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Liyang Hu , Chong Chen

We are exploring low-dose proton radiography and computed tomography (pCT) as techniques to improve the accuracy of proton treatment planning and to provide artifact-free images for verification and adaptive therapy at the time of…

Incorrect choice of measuring geometry and signal discrimination thresholds for the BaF2 PAL spectrometer can lead to a significant distortion in the measured spectrum of positron lifetime. The contribution of the distorted events for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Yu. Dubov , V. I. Grafutin , Yu. V. Funtikov , Yu. V. Shtotsky , L. V. Elnikova

Geant4 simulations play a crucial role in the analysis and interpretation of experiments providing low energy precision tests of the Standard Model. This paper focuses on the accuracy of the description of the electron processes in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-23 G. Soti , F. Wauters , M. Breitenfeldt , P. Finlay , I. S. Kraev , A. Knecht , T. Porobic , D. Zákoucký , N. Severijns

The new simulation for the ATLAS detector at LHC is performed using Geant4 in a complete OO/C++ environment. In this framework the simulation of the various test beams for the different ATLAS subdetectors offers an excellent opportunity to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Dell'Acqua

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a critical tool for diagnosing tumors and neurological disorders but poses radiation risks to patients, particularly to sensitive populations. While reducing injected radiation dose mitigates this risk,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Yucun Hou , Fenglin Zhan , Xin Cheng , Chenxi Li , Ziquan Yuan , Runze Liao , Haihao Wang , Jianlang Hua , Jing Wu , Jianyong Jiang

Depth-of-interaction (DOI) encoding is an effective strategy for reducing parallax error and preserving spatial resolution in positron emission tomography (PET), particularly in compact small-animal scanners. To enable efficient…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Satzhan Sitmukhambetov , Junwei Du , Mingwu Jin , Yujie Chi

The purpose of the presented research is estimation of the performance characteristics of the economic Total-Body Jagiellonian-PET system (TB-J-PET) constructed from plastic scintillators. The characteristics are estimated according to the…

A set of physics models for nanodosimetry simulation is being re-engineered for use in Geant4-based simulations. This extension of Geant4 capabilities is part of a larger scale R&D project for multi-scale simulation involving adaptable,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 E. Gargioni , V. Grichine , M. G. Pia

In this paper we simulate the emission by charged particles in complex structures with help of Geant4. We take into account Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation, bremsstrahlung, pair production and other accompanying processes. As an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. A. Savchenko , A. A. Tishchenko , S. B. Dabagov , A. Anastasi , G. Venanzoni , M. N. Strikhanov

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an important molecular imaging tool widely used in medicine. Traditional PET systems rely on complete detector rings for full angular coverage and reliable data collection. However, incomplete-ring PET…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yeqi Fang , Rong Zhou

Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) is a photonuclear interaction that enables highly isotope-specific measurements in both pure and applied physics scenarios. High-accuracy design and analysis of NRF measurements in complex geometries is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Jayson R Vavrek , Brian S Henderson , Areg Danagoulian