TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ziemons, Karl
A1  - Auffray, E.
A1  - Barbier, R.
A1  - Brandenburg, G.
T1  - The ClearPET TM LSO/LuYAP phoswich scanner: a high performance small animal PET system
JF  - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 3
N2  - A 2nd generation high performance small animal PET scanner, called ClearPET™, has been designed and a first prototype is built by working groups of the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC). In order to achieve high sensitivity and maintain good uniform spatial resolution over the field of view in high resolution PET systems, it is necessary to extract the depth of interaction (DOI) information and correct for spatial degradation. The design of the first ClearPET™ Demonstrator based on the use of the multi-anode photomultiplier tube (Hamamatsu R7600-M64) and a LSO/LuYAP phoswich matrix. The two crystal layers of 8*8 crystals (2*2*10 mm3) are stacked on each other and mounted without light guide as one to one on the PMT. A unit of four PMTs arranged in-line represents one of 20 sectors of the ring design. The opening diameter of the crystal ring is 137 mm, the axial detector length is 110 mm. The PMT pulses are digitized by free-running ADCs and digital data processing determines the gamma energy, the phoswich layer and even the pulse arrival time. Single gamma interactions are recorded and coincidences are found by software. The gantry allows rotation of the detector modules around the field of view. The measurements have been done using the first LSO/LuYAP detector cassettes.
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 1082-3654
SP  - 1728
EP  - 1732
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ziemons, Karl
A1  - Heinrichs, U.
A1  - Streun, M.
A1  - Pietrzyk, U.
T1  - Validation of GEANT3 simulation studies with a dual-head PMT ClearPET™ prototype
JF  - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 5
N2  - The ClearPET™ project is proposed by working groups of the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC) to develop a 2nd generation high performance small animal positron emission tomograph (PET). High sensitivity and high spatial resolution is foreseen for the ClearPET™ camera by using a phoswich arrangement combining mixed lutetium yttrium aluminum perovskite (LuYAP:Ce) and lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) scintillating crystals. Design optimizations for the first photomultiplier tube (PMT) based ClearPET camera are done with a Monte-Carlo simulation package implemented on GEANT3 (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland). A dual-head prototype has been built to test the frontend electronics and was used to validate the implementation of the GEANT3 simulation tool. Multiple simulations were performed following the experimental protocols to measure the intrinsic resolution and the sensitivity profile in axial and radial direction. Including a mean energy resolution of about 27.0% the simulated intrinsic resolution is about (1.41±0.11)mm compared to the measured of (1.48±0.06)mm. The simulated sensitivity profiles show a mean square deviation of 12.6% in axial direction and 3.6% in radial direction. Satisfactorily these results are representative for all designs and confirm the scanner geometry.
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 1082-3654
SP  - 3053
EP  - 3056
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ziller, Claudia
A1  - Döring, Bernd
T1  - Doppelfassaden - vom Experimentalmodell zum Massanzug
JF  - TAB Technik am Bau
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 0341-2032
VL  - Bd. 35
IS  - H. 12
SP  - 58
EP  - 63
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zischank, Wolfgang J.
A1  - Heidler, Fridolin
A1  - Wiesinger, J.
A1  - Metwally, I.
A1  - Kern, Alexander
A1  - Seevers, M.
T1  - Laboratory simulation of direct lightning strokes to a modeled building : measurement of magnetic fields and included voltages
JF  - Journal of electrostatics. 60 (2004), H. 2 - 4
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 0304-3886
N1  - ISSN der E-Ausg.: 0304-3886
SP  - 223
EP  - 232
ER  -