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2011

A silicon pet probe

A. Studen, E. Chesi, V. Cindro, N. H. Clinthorne, E. Cochran, B. Grosicar, K. Honscheid, S. S. Huh, H. Kagan, C. Lacasta, G. Llosá, V. Linhart, M. Mikuz, V. Stankova, P. Weilhammer, D. Zontar
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, 2011, pages

Spectroscopy study of imaging devices based on silicon pixel array detector coupled to vatagp7 readout chips

V. Linhart, D. Burdette, E. Chesi, V. Cindro, N. H. Clinthorne, E. Cochran, B. Grosicar, K. Honscheid, H. Kagan, C. Lacasta, G. Llosá, M. Mikuz, V. Stankova, A. Studen, P. Weilhammer, D. Zontar
Journal of Instrumentation, 2011, volumen 6, páginas C01092, 2011, pages

Demonstration of an axial pet concept for brain and small animal imaging

P. Beltrame, E. Bolle, A. Braem, C. Casella, E. Chesi, N. Clinthorne, R. D. Leo, G. Dissertori, L. Djambazov, V. Fanti, C. Joram, H. Kagan, W. Lustermann, F. Meddi, E. Nappi, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, J. J. Oliver, F. Pauss, M. Rafecas, D. Renker, A. Rudge, D. Schinzel, T. Schneider, J. Séguinot, P. Solevi, S. Stapnes, P. Weilhammer
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, 2011, volume 628, pages 426--429, number 1

2010

Real time coincidence detection engine for high count rate timestamp based PET

M. A. Tetrault, J. F. Oliver, M. Bergeron, R. Lecomte, R. Fontaine
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 2010, volume 57, pages 117--124

Joint reconstruction of image and motion in gated positron emission tomography

M. Blume, A. Martinez-Möller, A. Keil, N. Navab, M. Rafecas
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2010, volume 29, pages 1892 -1906, number 11

Improving the singles rate method for modeling accidental coincidences in high-resolution PET

J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas
Phys. Med. Biol., 2010, volume 55, pages 6951--6971

Geometrical and monte carlo projectors in 3d pet reconstruction

P. Aguiar, M. Rafecas, J. E. Ortuno, G. Kontaxakis, A. Santos, J. Pavia, D. Ros
Medical Physics, 2010, volume 37, pages 5691-5702, number 11

First tests in the application of silicon photomultiplier arrays to dose monitoring in hadron therapy

G. Llosá, J. Barrio, C. Lacasta, S. Callier, L. Raux, C. L. Taille
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, 2010, pages

Construction and tests of demonstrator modules for a 3-d axial pet system for brain or small animal imaging

E. Bolle, A. Braem, C. Casella, E. Chesi, N. Clinthorne, E. Cochran, R. D. Leo, G. Dissertori, G. Djambazov, V. Fanti, K. Honscheid, S. Huh, I. Johnson, C. Joram, H. Kagan, W. Lustermann, F. Meddi, E. Nappi, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, J. J. Oliver, P. Pauss, M. Rafecas, D. Renker, A. Rudge, D. Schinzel, T. Schneider, J. Seguinot, S. Smith, P. Solevi, S. Stapnes, P. Weilhammer
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, 2010, pages

The AX-PET project: Demonstration of a high resolution axial 3D PET

Characterization of a pet detector head based on continuous lyso crystals and monolithic, 64-pixel silicon photomultiplier matrices

G. Llosá, J. Barrio, C. Lacasta, M. G. Bisogni, A. D. Guerra, S. Marcatili, P. Barrillon, S. Bondil-Blin, C. Taille, C. Piemonte
Phys. Med. Biol., 2010, volume 55, pages 7299--7315

2009

AX-PET: A novel PET detector concept with full 3D reconstruction

A. Braem, C. Joram, J. Séguinot, G. Dissertori, L. Djambazov, W. Lustermann, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, F. Pauss, D. Schinzel, P. Solevi, C. Lacasta, J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas, R. D. Leo, E. Nappi, I. Vilardi, E. Chesi, E. Cochran, K. Honscheid, H. Kagan, A. Rudge, S. Smith, P. Weilhammer, I. Johnson, D. Renker, N. Clinthorne, S. Huh, E. Bolle, S. Stapnes, F. Meddi
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, 2009, volume 610, pages 192-195

Development and validation of a GATE simulation model for the LabPET scanner

S. Rechka, R. Fontaine, M. Rafecas, R. Lecomte
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on, December , volume 56, pages 3672 -3679, number 6

2008

Effect of inter-crystal scatter on estimation methods for random coincidences and subsequent correction

I. Torres-Espallardo, M. Rafecas, V. Spanoudaki, D. P. McElroy, S. I. Ziegler
Phys. Med. Biol., 2008, volume 53, pages 2391--2411, number 9

2007

Estimating accidental coincidences for pixelated PET detectors and singles list-mode acquisition

M. Rafecas, I. Torres, V. Spanoudaki, D. P. McElroy, S. I. Ziegler
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, February , volume 571, pages 285--288

Performance evaluation of MADPET-II, a small animal dual layer LSO-APD PET scanner with individual detector read out and depth of interaction information

V. C. Spanoudaki, I. Torres--Espallardo, M. Rafecas, S. I. Ziegler
J. Nucl. Med., 2007, volume 48, pages 39P

Nuevo instituto de física médica: la física y la medicina abren nuevas vías en Valencia

J. Bernabeu, M. Rafecas
Diario El País, January , pages 45

2006

Comparison of different approaches based on Monte Carlo methods to calculate the system matrix for small animal PET

E. N. Gimenez, E. Nacher, M. Gimenez, J. J. Benlloch, M. Rafecas
Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. Sec. A, December , volume 569, pages 346-349, number 2

Conference Proceedings

2011

Using spherical basis functions on a polar grid for iterative image reconstruction in small animal pet

J. Cabello, J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas
Physics of Medical Imaging Conference - Proceedings of SPIE, February , pages

Observing the high resolution capabilities of a silicon pet insert probe

K. Brzezinski, J. F. Oliver, J. Gillam, C. Lacasta, M. Rafecas
, 2011, volume 7961, pages 796146, number 1

2010

Joint reconstruction of image and motion for PET: displacement fields versus a b-spline motion model

M. Blume, A. Keil, N. Navab, M. Rafecas
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2010, pages

Polar voxelization schemes combined with a monte-carlo based system matrix for image reconstruction in high resolution pet

J. Cabello, J. F. Oliver, I. Torres-Espallardo, M. Rafecas
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2010, pages

Joint reconstruction of image and motion for PET using linear diffusion regularization

M. Blume, M. Rafecas
Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica, November , pages

Iterative image reconstruction images using polar and spherical basis functions for positron emission tomography

J. Cabello, J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas
Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica, November , pages

2009

ML-EM implementation on a GPU: avoiding simultaneous read-modify-write processes.

T. Felder, M. Blume, J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas
2009 Int. Meet. Fully3D Imag. Recons. Rad. Nucl. Med. Conf. Rec., 2009, pages 65-69

First results from the AX-PET demonstrator

P. Beltrame, E. Bolle, A. Braem, C. Casella, E. Chesi, N. Clinthorne, R. D. Leo, G. Dissertori, L. Djambazov, V. Fanti, C. Joram, H. Kagan, W. Lustermann, F. Meddi, E. Nappi, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, J. F. Oliver, F. Pauss, M. Rafecas, D. Renker, A. Rudge, D. Schinzel, T. Schneider, J. Seguinot, P. Solevi, S. Stapnes, P. Weilhammer
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE, November , pages 3096 -3101

LabPET inter-crystal scatter study using GATE

S. Rechka, R. Fontaine, R. Lecomte, M. Rafecas
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009 IEEE, November , pages 3988 -3994

Blind motion compensation for positron-emission-tomography

M. Blume, A. Keil, N. Navab, M. Rafecas
Proceedings of the SPIE, February , volume 7258, pages 72580T-72580T-8

Simultaneous reconstruction of image and motion in gated positron-emission-tomography

M. Blume, A. Keil, M. Rafecas, N. Navab
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 5485 - 5487

Joint reconstruction of image and motion in gated positron-emission-tomography

M. Blume, A. Martinez-Möller, A. Keil, N. Navab, M. Rafecas
Proceedings of the 10th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Fully3D), September , pages 118-121

ML-EM implementation on a GPU: avoiding simultaneous read-modify-write processes

T. Felder, M. Blume, J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on High Performance Image Reconstruction (HPIR), September , pages 65-68

2008

A demonstrator for a new axial PET concept

E. Bolle, A. Braem, C. Casella, E. Chesi, N. Clinthorne, E. Cochran, R. D. Leo, G. Dissertori, L. Djambazov, K. Honscheid, S. Huh, I. Johnson, C. Joram, H. Kagan, C. Lacasta, W. Lustermann, F. Meddi, E. Nappi, F. Nessi-Tedaldi, J. F. Oliver, F. Pauss, M. Rafecas, D. Renker, A. Rudge, D. Schinzel, T. Schneider, J. Seguinot, S. Smith, P. Solevi, S. Stapnes, I. Vilardi, P. Weilhammer
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 4571 -4574

Coincidence identification in PET using neural networks

E. Fuster-Garcia, J. F. Oliver, S. Tortajada, M. Rafecas
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 4728-4731

Comparison of coincidence identification techniques for high resolution PET

J. F. Oliver, I. Torres-Espallardo, R. Fontaine, S. S. Ziegler, M. Rafecas
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 4732--4735

Revisiting the singles rate method for modeling accidental coincidences in PET

J. F. Oliver, M. Rafecas
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 4288 -4291

Development and validation of a GATE simulation model for the LabPET scanner

Rechka, Sanae, Fontaine, Rejean, Rafecas, Magdalena, Lecomte, Roger
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 4003 -4009

Combined motion compensation and reconstruction for PET

M. Blume, M. Rafecas, S. Ziegler, N. Navab
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, October , pages 5485 -5487

2007

PET iterative reconstruction using pseudo-Wu raytracer

P. Aguiar, M. Rafecas, C. Falcón, J. Pavia, D. Ros
Proceedings of the International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2007, pages 406-409

Sensitivity in PET: Neural networks as an alternative to compton photons LOR analysis

J. B. Michaud, C. A. Brunet, M. Rafecas, R. Lecomte, R. Fontaine
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, November , volume 5, pages 3594--3600

Quantification issues in imaging data of MADPET-II small animal PET scanner using a system matrix based on Monte Carlo techniques

I. Torres-Espallardo, V. C. Spanoudaki, M. Rafecas, J. Schirmer, S. I. Ziegler
2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, November , volume 6, pages 4192 -4197

2006

Evaluation of different random estimation methods for the MADPET-II small animal PET scanner using GATE

I. Torres-Espallardo, M. Rafecas, V. C. Spanoudaki, D. P. McElroy, S. I. Ziegler
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006 IEEE, November , volume 5, pages 3148 -3150

Polar pixels for high resolution small animal PET

C. Mora, M. Rafecas
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006 IEEE, November , volume 5, pages 2812 -2817