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Using the SANC system we study the one-loop electroweak standard model predictions, including virtual and real photon emission, for the decays of the on-shell vector boson, W --> L ANTI-NU (GAMMA). The complete one-loop corrections and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Nanava , Z. Was

Study of certain angular correlations in the three-photon annihilations of the triplet state of positronium, the electron-positron bound state, may be used as a probe of potential CP and CPT-violating effects in the leptonic sector. We…

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The development of PET and positronium imaging techniques is strictly related to the availability of suitable radionuclides and robust radiochemistry platforms. Among the emerging candidates, $^{44}$Sc has attracted significant interest due…

We present first-principles approaches based on density functional theory for calculating positron states and annihilation characteristics in condensed matter. The treatment of the electron-positron correlation effects (the enhancement of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Barbiellini , M. Hakala , R. M. Nieminen , M. J. Puska

Accurate attenuation and scatter corrections are crucial in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for accurate visual interpretation and quantitative analysis. Traditional methods relying on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Min Jeong Cho , Hyeong Seok Shim , Sungyu Kim , Jae Sung Lee

We calculate the lifetime of both the o-Ps and the p-Ps positronium annihilation decay $ Ps\to\gamma\gamma$ in the strong circular polarized laser field. We take a strategy of the factorization to separate the effects caused by the Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Yu-Qi Chen , Pei Wu

This article describes simulations of scattering of annihilation gamma quanta in a strip of plastic scintillator. Such strips constitute basic detection modules in a newly proposed Positron Emission Tomography which utilizes plastic…

Recent positron flux fraction measurements in cosmic-rays (CR) made by the AMS-02 satellite confirm and extends the evidence on the existence of a new (yet unknown) source of high energy positrons. To explain this excess, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-24 Edson Carquin , Marco A. Diaz , German A. Gomez-Vargas , Boris Panes , Nicolas Viaux

This work aims at applying the theory of the component-based normalization for the Jagiellonian PET scanner, currently under development at the Jagiellonian University. In any Positron Emission Tomography acquisition, efficiency along a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Aurélien Coussat , Wojciech Krzemien , Jakub Baran , Szymon Parzych

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is a practical solution to reduce radiation dose, but the resulting ill-posed inverse problem poses significant challenges for accurate image reconstruction. Although deep learning and diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Changsheng Fang , Yongtong Liu , Bahareh Morovati , Shuo Han , Yu Shi , Li Zhou , Shuyi Fan , Hengyong Yu

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a key nuclear medicine imaging modality that visualizes radiotracer distributions to quantify in vivo physiological and metabolic processes, playing an irreplaceable role in disease management. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yichi Zhang , Le Xue , Wenbo Zhang , Lanlan Li , Feiyang Xiao , Yuchen Liu , Xiaohui Zhang , Hongwei Zhang , Shuqi Wang , Gang Feng , Liling Peng , Xin Gao , Yuanfan Xu , Yuan Qi , Kuangyu Shi , Hong Zhang , Yuan Cheng , Mei Tian , Zixin Hu

The precise measurements of the Compton scatterings of photons originating from the decay of positronium atoms can reveal information about their polarizations. J-PET detector is constructed of 192 plastic scintillators and is unique to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Sushil K. Sharma , Nikodem Krawczyk , Juhi Raj

The Poisson Flow Consistency Model (PFCM) is a consistency-style model based on the robust Poisson Flow Generative Model++ (PFGM++) which has achieved success in unconditional image generation and CT image denoising. Yet the PFCM can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anthony Zhang , Mahmut Gokmen , Dennis Hein , Rongjun Ge , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Jin Chen

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

We propose a technique of compensating the spurious reflections implied by the multiple-scattering (MS) method, commonly used for analyzing finite photonic crystal (PC) systems, to obtain exact values of characteristic parameters, such as…

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A neutron decays into a proton, an electron, and an anti-neutrino through the beta-decay process. The decay lifetime ($\sim$880 s) is an important parameter in the weak interaction. For example, the neutron lifetime is a parameter used to…

The international PEN collaboration aims to obtain the branching ratio for the pion electronic decay $\pi^+ \to e^+\nu_e(\gamma)$, aka $\pi_{e2}$, to a relative precision of $5\times 10^{-4}$ or better. The PEN apparatus comprises a number…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-07 C. J. Glaser , D. Pocanic , A. van der Schaaf , V. A. Baranov , N. V. Khomutov , N. P. Kravchuk , N. A. Kuchinsky

Background and purpose: In-beam Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is one of the modalities that can be used for in-vivo non-invasive treatment monitoring in proton therapy. PET distributions obtained during various treatment sessions can…

Objective Positron emission tomography (PET) allows imaging of patho-physiological information as a form of rate constants from a dynamic image. The rate constant image(s) may be affected from noise on the dynamic image. We introduced an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Nobuyuki Kudomi , Yukito Maeda

We report an exact analytical solution of so-called positron diffusion trapping model. This model have been widely used for the treatment of the experimental data for defect profiling of the adjoin surface layer using the variable energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 V. A. Stephanovich , J. Dryzek