Research
Publications (DMIL)
Peer-reviewed publications:
Developments in Dedicated Prostate PET Instrumentation
Antonio J. Gonzalez and Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro
PET Clinics 19, 49, 2024
Simulation study of clinical PET scanners with different geometries, including TOF and DOI capabilities
Gabriel Cañizares, Santiago Jiménez-Serrano, Alejandro Lucero, Constantino Morera-Ballester, Enrique Muñoz, José M. Benlloch, Antonio J. González
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie., 2023, early access
Exploiting Cherenkov Radiation With BGO-Based Metascintillators
Riccardo Latell , Antonio J. Gonzalez, Daniel A. B. Bonifacio, Miroslavna Kovylina, Amadeu Griol, José M. Benlloch, Paul Lecoq, and Georgios Konstantinou
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie. 7, 810, 2023
Time and Energy Characterization of Semi-Monolihic Detectors with Different Treatments and SiPMs Suitable for Clinical Imaging
John Barrio, Neus Cucarella, Marta Freire, Celia Valladares, Jose M. Benlloch, Antonio J. Gonzalez
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie. 2023, 7, 785, 2023
Time and Energy Spatial Characterization of Highly Sampled Monolihic PET Detectors With Different Thicknesses
Celia Valladares, John Barrio, Marta Freire, Neus Cucarella, Efthymios Lamprou, Robert S. Miyaoka, William C. J. Hunter, Robert Harrison, and Antonio J. González
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie. 7, 704, 2023
Fast Timing in Medical Imaging
P. Lecoq, Fellow, A.J. González, E. Auffray, G.Konstantinou, J. Nuyts, Fellow, J.O. Prior, Senior Member, R.M. Turtors and J. Varela
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie. 7, 429, 2023
Experimental validation of a rodent PET scanner prototype based on a single LYSO crystal tube
Marta Freire, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Gabriel Cañizares, Ahmadreza Rezaei, Johan Nuyts, Stuart S. Berr, Mark B. Williams, Jose M. Benlloch and Antonio J. González.
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie. 2021
Reducing Calibration Time in PET Systems Based on Monolithic Crystals
Marta Freire, Gabriel Cañizares, Sara Echegoyen, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro and Antonio J. Gonzalez
Frontiers in Medicine. 2021
Timing evaluation of a PET detector block based on semi-monolithic LYSO crystals
Neus Cucarella, John Barrio, Efthymios Lamprou, Celia Valladares, Jose María Benlloch, Antonio Javier González
Medical Physics, 2021
Metascintillators for ultra-fast gamma detectors: a review of current state and future perspectives
G. Konstantinou, P. Lecoq, Member, IEEE, J.M. Benlloch and A.J. Gonzalez
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plas. Med. Scie. 2021
Evolution of PET Detectors and Event Positioning Algorithms Using Monolithic Scintillation Crystals
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Antonio J. Gonzalez, Shirin Pourashraf, Robert S. Miyaoka, Peter Bruyndonckx, Garry Chinn, Larry A. Pierce, and Craig S. Levin.
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie.,5, 282, 2021
Validation of photon collimation techniques for monolithic PET detector calibration
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Larry A. Pierce II, William C.J. Hunter, Antonio J. González, and Robert S. Miyaoka
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plasma Med. Scie., 5, 783, 2020
Characterization of a preclinical PET insert in a 7 Tesla MRI scanner: beyond NEMA testing
Willy Gsell, Cesar Molinos, Carlos Correcher, Sarah Belderbos, Jens Wouters, Sven Junge, Michael Heidenreich, Greetje Vande Velde, Ahmadreza Rezaei, Johan Nuyts, Christopher Cawthorne, Frederik Cleeren, Lise Nannan, Christophe M Deroose, Uwe Himmelreich, and Antonio J Gonzalez
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 65, 245016, 2020
In-depth evaluation of TOF-PET detectors based on crystal arrays and the TOFPET2 ASIC
Efthymios Lamprou, Antonio J. Gonzalez, Filomeno Sanchez, and Jose M. Benlloch
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 977, 164295, 2020
Pilot performance of a dedicated prostate PET suitable for diagnosis and biopsy guidance
Gabriel Cañizares, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Marta Freire, Efthymios Lamprou, John Barrio, Filomeno Sanchez, Jose M. Benlloch, Liczandro Hernandez, Laura Moliner, Luis F. Vidal, Irene Torres, Pablo Sopena, Cesar D. Vera-Donoso, Pilar Bello, Amadeo Iborra, Julio Barbera and Antonio J. González
European Journal Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 7, 38, 2020
Characterization of a high aspect ratio detector with lateral sides readout for Compton PET
John Barrio, Neus Cucarella, Antonio J. Gonzalez, Member, IEEE, Marta Freire, Victor Ilisie, and Jose M. Benlloch
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plas. Med. Scie., 4, 546, 2020
NEMA Performance Evaluation of CareMiBrain dedicated brain PET and Comparison with the wholebody and dedicated brain PET systems
Laura Moliner, Maria J. Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan V. Catret, Antonio González, Víctor Ilisie and José M. Benlloch
Scientific Reports 9, 15484, 2019
High resolution and sensitivity gamma camera with active septa. A first Monte Carlo study
Victor Ilisie, Laura Moliner, Sandra Oliver, Filomeno Sánchez, Antonio J. González, Michael Seimetz, Maria J. Rodríguez-Álvarez and Jose Maria Benlloch
Scientific Reports 9, 18431, 2020
Calibration of Gamma Ray Impacts in Monolithic-Based Detectors Using Voronoi Diagrams
Marta Freire, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Filomeno Sanchez, Jose M. Benlloch, Antonio J. Gonzalez
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plas. Med. Scie., 4, 350, 2020
TOF studies for dedicated PET with open geometries
Laura Moliner, Víctor Ilisie, Antonio J. González, Sandra Oliver, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Vicent Gimenez-Alventosa, Gabriel Cañizares, Efthimios Lamprou, Jorge Alamo, Filomeno Sanchez, Maria J. Rodriguez Álvarez, and Jose M. Benlloch
Journal of Instruments 14, C02006, 2019
Exploring TOF Capabilities of PET Detector Blocks Based on Large Monolithic Crystals and Analog SiPMs
Efthymios Lamprou, Antonio J. González, Filomeno Sanchez, and Jose M. Benlloch
Physica Medica 70, 10-18, 2019
Ensemble of neural networks for 3D position estimation in monolithic PET detectors
Iborra, A. J. Gonzalez, A. Gonzalez-Montoro, A. Bousse and D. Visvikis
Physics in Medicine and Biology 64, 195010, 2019
Performance comparison of large-area SiPM arrays suitable for gamma ray detectors
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, and Antonio J. González
Biomed. Phys. Eng. Express 5 (2019) 045013
Novel method to measure the intrinsic spatial resolution in PET detectors based on monolithic crystals
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Filomeno Sanchez, Peter Bruyndonckx, Gabriel Cañizares, Jose M. Benlloch, Antonio J. González
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 920, 58-67, 2019
Feasibility Study of a Small Animal PET Insert Based on a Single LYSO Monolithic Tube
Antonio J. González, Stuart S. Berr, Gabriel Cañizares, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Abel Orero, Carlos Correcher, Ahmadreza Rezaei, Johan Nuyts, Filomeno Sanchez, Stan Majewski and Jose M. Benlloch
Front. Med., 28 November 2018 LINK
Initial Results of the MINDView PET Insert Inside the 3T mMR
Antonio J. González, Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, Luis F. Vidal, Julio Barbera, Sebastian Aussenhofer, Liczandro Hernandez, Laura Moliner, Filomeno Sanchez, Carlos Correcher, Edwin J. Pincay, Gabriel Cañizares, Efthymios Lamprou, Sebastian Sanchez, Juan V. Catret, Santiago Jiménez-Serrano, Jorge Cabello, Markus Schwaiger, Amadeo Iborra, Thibaut Merlin, Dimitris Visvikis and Jose M. Benlloch
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plas. Med. Scie., 3, 343, 2019
Organ-Dedicated Molecular Imaging Systems
Antonio J. Gonzalez, Filomeno Sanchez, and Jose M. Benlloch
IEEE Trans. Rad. Plas. Med. Scie. 2, 388, 2018
PhD Thesis:
Efthymios Lamprou, Development and Performance Evaluation of High Resolution TOF-PET Detectors Suitable for Novel PET Scanners, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 29-Jan 2021.
Sebastián Sánchez, Correcciones en Imagen y Reconstrucción PET, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 14-Dec. 2020
Andrea Gonzalez Montoro, Characterization and development of new PET detectors MR compatible, Universidad de Valencia, 21-Dec. 2018
Pablo Conde Castellanos, Desarrollo de un sistema detector PET compatible con resonancia magnética, Universidad de Valencia, 14-Mar. 2017
Laura Moliner Martinez, Algoritmo list mode para tomógrafos PET de cristales continuos, Universidad de Valencia, 31-Oct. 2014
Abel Orero Palomares, Diseño e implementación de un SPECT pre-clínico basado en cristales continuos, Universidad de Valencia, 9-Nov. 2012
Antonio Peiró Cloquell, Sistema concentrador de luz para un detector híbrido PET-MR basado en cristales continuos y SiPM, Universidad Católica de Valencia, 3-Dec. 2012
Noriel Pavón Hernández, Diseño y desarrollo de una mini cámara gamma para uso intraquirúrgico, Universidad de Valencia, 12-Feb. 2010
Research Lines
Gabriel Cañizares: Desarrollo del Hardware para Sistema de Diagnóstico por Imagen Molecular para Corazón en Condiciones de Estrés.
Marta Freire: Implementation of new algorithms for an accurate gamma-ray impact determination in scintillation monolithic blocks for PET applications.
Juan Catret: Desarrollo y evaluación clínica de un Tomógrafo por Emisión de Positrones dedicado al cerebro.
Celia Valladares: (to be determined)
