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most citedPositronium imaging with the novel multiphoton PET scanner

185 citations · 405 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

nucl-ex2026

Experimental determination of the Dalitz plot for positronium decay using the J-PET detection system

Magdalena Skurzok, Steven D. Bass, Kamila Kasperska +37

We present the first measurements of the Dalitz plot for ortho-positronium annihilation to three photons. Our measurements, accurate to about 3% statistical and 2-3% systematic unc…

physics.med-ph2026

First-in-human quantum entanglement imaging

Pawel Moskal, Deepak Kumar, Sushil Sharma +37

Annihilation photons are quantum-entangled in polarization, a phenomenon that has not been exploited in medical diagnostics so far. We present the first in vivo imaging of the degr…

physics.med-ph2026★ 1 cited

First ex-vivo positronium imaging of tissues with modular J-PET scanner using Sc radionuclide

Karol Kubat, Manish Das, Sushil Sharma +41

This study presents the first ex-vivo positronium imaging of human tissues using the modular J-PET scanner with the Sc radionuclide. The Sc isotope was produced via t…

physics.med-ph2026

Feasibility study of the positronium lifetime imaging with the Biograph Vision Quadra and J-PET tomographs

Szymon Parzych, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +39

Background: After its first ex-vivo and in-vivo demonstration, Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) has received considerable interest as a potential new diagnostic biomarker. High s…

physics.med-ph2025★ 2 cited

First Positronium Lifetime Imaging using Mn and Co with a plastic-based PET scanner

Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Ermias Yitayew Beyene +45

Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI) extends positron emission tomography by using the lifetime of positronium atoms as a probe of tissue molecular architecture. In this work, we rep…

nucl-ex2025

Studies of CPT symmetry in positronium decays with 192 plastic strip J-PET detector

N. Chug, S. D. Bass, E. Y. Beyene +40

A direct test of the CPT symmetry is performed for the electromagnetic decays of ortho-positronium using the J-PET tomograph. We present the precise measurement of the CPT-sensitiv…

physics.med-ph2025★ 6 cited

First positronium imaging using Sc with the J-PET scanner: a case study on the NEMA-Image Quality phantom

Manish Das, Sushil Sharma, Aleksander Bilewicz +41

Positronium Lifetime Imaging (PLI), an emerging extension of conventional positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, offers a novel window for probing the submolecular properties…

physics.app-ph2024

Nanoporosity imaging by positronium lifetime tomography

K. Dulski, E. Beyene, N. Chug +25

Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) is a well-established non-destructive technique used for nanostructural characterization of porous materials. It is based on the…

physics.med-ph2024

Investigation of Novel Preclinical Total Body PET Designed With J-PET Technology:A Simulation Study

M. Dadgar, S. Parzych, F. Tayefi Ardebili +29

The growing interest in human-grade total body positron emission tomography (PET) systems has also application in small animal research. Due to the existing limitations in human-ba…

physics.ins-det2024★ 12 cited

Comparative studies of plastic scintillator strips with high technical attenuation length for the total-body J-PET scanner

L. Kaplon, J. Baran, N. Chug +31

Plastic scintillator strips are considered as one of the promising solutions for the cost-effective construction of total-body positron emission tomography, (PET) system. The purpo…

nucl-ex2024★ 3 cited

Non-maximal entanglement of photons from positron-electron annihilation demonstrated using a novel plastic PET scanner

P. Moskal, D. Kumar, S. Sharma +25

In state-of-the-art Positron Emission Tomography (PET), information about annihilation photon polarization is unavailable. Here, we present a PET scanner built from plastic scintil…

hep-ph2024★ 31 cited

Discrete symmetries tested at 10 precision using linear polarization of photons from positronium annihilations

Paweł Moskal, Eryk Czerwiński, Juhi Raj +38

Discrete symmetries play an important role in particle physics with violation of CP connected to the matter-antimatter imbalance in the Universe. We report the most precise test of…

physics.ins-det2023

Feasibility studies for imaging ee annihilation with modular multi-strip detectors

S. Sharma, L. Povolo, S. Mariazzi +41

Studies based on imaging the annihilation of the electron (e) and its antiparticle positron (e) open up several interesting applications in nuclear medicine and fundame…

physics.med-ph2023

Feasibility of the J-PET to monitor range of therapeutic proton beams

Jakub Baran, Damian Borys, Karol Brzeziński +40

Objective: The aim of this work is to investigate the feasibility of the Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomography (J-PET) scanner for intra-treatment proton beam range monitoring.…

physics.med-ph2023★ 3 cited

TOF MLEM Adaptation for the Total-Body J-PET with a Realistic Analytical System Response Matrix

R. Y. Shopa, J. Baran, K. Klimaszewski +32

We report a study of the original image reconstruction algorithm based on the time-of-flight maximum likelihood expectation maximisation (TOF MLEM), developed for the total-body (T…

physics.ins-det2023★ 6 cited

J-PET detection modules based on plastic scintillators for performing studies with positron and positronium beams

S. Sharma, J. Baran, R. S. Brusa +33

The J-PET detector, which consists of inexpensive plastic scintillators, has demonstrated its potential in the study of fundamental physics. In recent years, a prototype with 192 p…

physics.med-ph2022★ 2 cited

Realistic Total-Body J-PET Geometry Optimization -- Monte Carlo Study

Jakub Baran, Wojciech Krzemien, Lech Raczyński +31

Total-Body PET is one of the most promising medical diagnostics modalities. The high sensitivity provided by Total-Body technology can be advantageous for novel tomography methods…

physics.med-ph2021★ 185 cited

Positronium imaging with the novel multiphoton PET scanner

Paweł Moskal, Kamil Dulski, Neha Chug +33

In vivo assessment of cancer and precise location of altered tissues at initial stages of molecular disorders are important diagnostic challenges. Positronium is copiously formed i…

physics.med-ph2021★ 18 cited

Optimisation of the event-based TOF filtered back-projection for online imaging in total-body J-PET

R. Y. Shopa, K. Klimaszewski, P. Kopka +24

We perform a parametric study of the newly developed time-of-flight (TOF) image reconstruction algorithm, proposed for the real-time imaging in total-body Jagiellonian PET (J-PET)…

physics.ins-det2021★ 105 cited

Simulating NEMA characteristics of the modular total-body J-PET scanner -- an economic total-body PET from plastic scintillators

Paweł Moskal, Paweł Kowalski, Roman Shopa +26

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 scinti…

physics.ins-det2020★ 31 cited

The J-PET detector -- a tool for precision studies of ortho-positronium decays

K. Dulski, S. D. Bass, J. Chhokar +41

The J-PET tomograph is constructed from plastic scintillator strips arranged axially in concentric cylindrical layers. It enables investigations of positronium decays by measuremen…