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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…
Synchronisation and calibration of the 24-modules J-PET prototype with 300~mm axial field of view
P. Moskal, T. Bednarski, Sz. Niedzwiecki +36
Research conducted in the framework of the J-PET project aims to develop a cost-effective total-body positron emission tomography scanner. As a first step on the way to construct a…
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…
Hit-time and hit-position reconstruction in strips of plastic scintillators using multi-threshold readouts
N. G. Sharma, M. Silarski, J. Chhokar +32
In this article, a new method for the reconstruction of hit-position and hit-time of photons in long scintillator detectors is investigated. This research is motivated by the recen…
Estimating relationship between the Time Over Threshold and energy loss by photons in plastic scintillators used in the J-PET scanner
S. Sharma, J. Chhokar, C. Curceanu +36
Time-Over-Threshold (TOT) technique is being used widely due to its implications in developing the multi channel readouts mainly when fast signal processing is required. Using TOT…
Performance assessment of the 2 positronium imaging with the total-body PET scanners
P. Moskal, D. Kisielewska, Z. Bura +39
In living organisms the positron-electron annihilation (occurring during the PET imaging) proceeds in about 30% via creation of a metastable ortho-positronium atom. In the tissue,…
Simulation studies of annihilation-photon's polarisation via Compton scattering with the J-PET tomograph
N. Krawczyk, B. C. Hiesmayr, C. Curceanu +31
J-PET is the first positron-emission tomograph (PET) constructed from plastic scintillators. It was optimized for the detection of photons from electron-positron annihilation. Such…
Feasibility studies of the polarization of photons beyond the optical wavelength regime with the J-PET detector
P. Moskal, N. Krawczyk, B. C. Hiesmayr +31
J-PET is a detector optimized for registration of photons from the electron-positron annihilation via plastic scintillators where photons interact predominantly via Compton scatter…
Commissioning of the J-PET detector in view of the positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy
K. Dulski, C. Curceanu, E. Czerwiński +30
The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is the first PET device built from plastic scintillators. It is a multi-purpose detector designed for medical imaging and for s…
A feasibility study of the time reversal violation test based on polarization of annihilation photons from the decay of ortho-Positronium with the J-PET detector
J. Raj, A. Gajos, C. Curceanu +31
The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is a novel de- vice being developed at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland based on or- ganic scintillators. J-PET is an…
Estimating the NEMA characteristics of the J-PET tomograph using the GATE package
Paweł Kowalski, Wojciech Wiślicki, Roman Shopa +30
The novel whole-body PET system based on plastic scintillators is developed by the {J-PET} Collaboration. It consists of plastic scintillator strips arranged axially in the form of…
Evaluation of Single-Chip, Real-Time Tomographic Data Processing on FPGA - SoC Devices
G. Korcyl, P. Białas, C. Curceanu +36
A novel approach to tomographic data processing has been developed and evaluated using the Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) scanner as an example. We propose a system in which there is no…
Feasibility study of the positronium imaging with the J-PET tomograph
P. Moskal, D. Kisielewska, C. Curceanu +27
A detection system of the conventional PET tomograph is set-up to record data from e+ e- annihilation into two photons with energy of 511 keV, and it gives information on the densi…
Feasibility study of the time reversal symmetry tests in decays of metastable positronium atoms with the J-PET detector
A. Gajos, C. Curceanu, E. Czerwiński +29
This article reports on the feasibility of testing of the symmetry under reversal in time in a purely leptonic system constituted by positronium atoms using the J-PET detector. The…
Commissioning of the J-PET detector for studies of decays of positronium atoms
E. Czerwiński, K. Dulski, P. Białas +29
The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is a detector for medical imaging of the whole human body as well as for physics studies involving detection of electron-positr…
J-PET: a new technology for the whole-body PET imaging
S. Niedźwiecki, P. Białas, C. Curceanu +30
The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) is the first PET built from plastic scintillators. J-PET prototype consists of 192 detection modules arranged axially in three…
Three-dimensional image reconstruction in J-PET using Filtered Back Projection method
R. Y. Shopa, K. Klimaszewski, P. Kowalski +30
We present a method and preliminary results of the image reconstruction in the Jagiellonian PET tomograph. Using GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission), interactions of…
Analysis procedure of the positronium lifetime spectra for the J-PET detector
K. Dulski, B. Zgardzinska, P. Bialas +30
Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) has shown to be a powerful tool to study the nanostructures of porous materials. Positron Emissions Tomography (PET) are devices…
Time calibration of the J-PET detector
M. Skurzok, M. Silarski, D. Alfs +32
The Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) project carried out in the Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University is focused on construction and tests of the firs…
Multichannel FPGA based MVT system for high precision time (20~ps~RMS) and charge measurement
M. Pałka, P. Strzempek, G. Korcyl +29
In this article it is presented an FPGA based ulti-oltage hreshold (MVT) system which allows of sampling fast signals ( ns rising and falling edge) in both voltage an…
Calculation of time resolution of the J-PET tomograph using the Kernel Density Estimation
L. Raczyński, W. Wiślicki, W. Krzemień +31
In this paper we estimate the time resolution of the J-PET scanner built from plastic scintillators. We incorporate the method of signal processing using the Tikhonov regularizatio…
Measurement of gamma quantum interaction point in plastic scintillator with WLS strips
J. Smyrski, D. Alfs, T. Bednarski +29
We demonstrated the feasibility of measuring the axial coordinate of a gamma quantum interaction point in a plastic scintillator bar via the detection of scintillation photons esca…
A feasibility study of ortho-positronium decays measurement with the J-PET scanner based on plastic scintillators
D. Kamińska, A. Gajos, E. Czerwiński +26
We present a study of the application of the Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomograph (J-PET) for the registration of gamma quanta from decays of ortho-positronium (o-Ps). The J-PE…
Time resolution of the plastic scintillator strips with matrix photomultiplier readout for J-PET tomograph
P. Moskal, O. Rundel, D. Alfs +27
Recent tests of a single module of the Jagiellonian Positron Emission Tomography system (J-PET) consisting of 30 cm long plastic scintillator strips have proven its applicability f…