TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Brandenburg, G. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - The data acquisition system of ClearPET neuro - a small animal PET scanner JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science N2 - The Crystal Clear Collaboration has developed a modular system for a small animal PET scanner (ClearPET). The modularity allows the assembly of scanners of different sizes and characteristics in order to satisfy the specific needs of the individual member institutions. The system performs depth of interaction detection by using a phoswich arrangement combining LSO and LuYAP scintillators which are coupled to Multichannel Photomultipliers (PMTs). For each PMT a free running 40 MHz ADC digitizes the signal and the complete scintillation pulse is sampled by an FPGA and sent with 20 MB/s to a PC for preprocessing. The pulse provides information about the gamma energy and the scintillator material which identifies the interaction layer. Furthermore, the exact pulse starting time is obtained from the sampled data. This is important as no hardware coincidence detection is implemented. All single events are recorded and coincidences are identified by software. The system in Jülich (ClearPET Neuro) is equipped with 10240 crystals on 80 PMTs. The paper will present an overview of the data acquisition system. Y1 - 2006 SN - 0018-9499 VL - 53 IS - 3 SP - 700 EP - 703 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Khodaverdi, M. A1 - Weber, S. A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - High resolution imaging with ClearPET™ Neuro - first animal images JF - 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 3 N2 - The ClearPET™ Neuro is the first full ring scanner within the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC). It consists of 80 detector modules allocated to 20 cassettes. LSO and LuYAP:Ce crystals in phoswich configuration in combination with position sensitive photomultiplier tubes are used to achieve high sensitivity and realize the acquisition of the depth of interaction (DOI) information. The complete system has been tested concerning the mechanical and electronical stability and interplay. Moreover, suitable corrections have been implemented into the reconstruction procedure to ensure high image quality. We present first results which show the successful operation of the ClearPET™ Neuro for artefact free and high resolution small animal imaging. Based on these results during the past few months the ClearPET™ Neuro System has been modified in order to optimize the performance. Y1 - 2006 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 1641 EP - 1644 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Brandenburg, G. A1 - Khodaverdi, M. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - Timemark correction for the ClearPET™ scanners JF - 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 4 N2 - The small animal PET scanners developed by the Crystal Clear Collaboration (ClearPETtrade) detect coincidences by analyzing timemarks which are attached to each event. The scanners are able to save complete single list mode data which allows analysis and modification of the timemarks after data acquisition. The timemarks are obtained from the digitally sampled detector pulses by calculating the baseline crossing of the rising edge of the pulse which is approximated as a straight line. But the limited sampling frequency causes a systematic error in the determination of the timemark. This error depends on the phase of the sampling clock at the time of the event. A statistical method that corrects these errors will be presented Y1 - 2006 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 2057 EP - 2060 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schelthoff, Christof T1 - Mathematik im Bachelor- und Diplomstudium für Bio- und Chemieingenieure Y1 - 2006 SN - 978-3-8322-5309-7 PB - Shaker CY - Aachen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Behbahani, Mehdi A1 - Nicolai, M. T1 - Interaktive Exploration von Blutströmungsprozessen in Herzpumpen JF - VRCA-Jahresbericht 2005/2006 Y1 - 2006 N1 - Virtual Reality Center SP - 88 EP - 90 PB - Virtual Reality Center CY - Aachen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Behbahani, Mehdi A1 - Behr, M. A1 - Arora, D. A1 - Coronado, O. A1 - Pasquali, M. T1 - CFD Analysis of MicroMed Debakey Pump and Hemolysis Prediction / Behbahani, M. ; Behr, M. ; Arora, D. ; Coronado, O. ; Pasquali, M. JF - Artificial Organs. 30 (2006), H. 11 Y1 - 2006 SN - 1525-1594 N1 - Abstracts 14th Congress of the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, Leuven, Belgium, August 31–September 2, 2006 ; S7-4 SP - A45 EP - A46 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kloock, Joachim P. A1 - Moreno, Lia A1 - Bratov, A. A1 - Huachupoma, S. A1 - Xu, J. A1 - Wagner, Torsten A1 - Yoshinobu, T. A1 - Ermolenko, Y. A1 - Vlasov, Y. G. A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - PLD-prepared cadmium sensors based on chalcogenide glasses —ISFET, LAPS and μISE semiconductor structures JF - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 118 (2006), H. 1-2 Y1 - 2006 SN - 0925-4005 N1 - Eurosensors XIX - Eurosensors XIX - The 19th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers SP - 149 EP - 155 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wagner, Torsten A1 - Rao, C. A1 - Kloock, Joachim P. A1 - Yoshinobu, T. A1 - Otto, R. A1 - Keusgen, M. A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - “LAPS Card”—A novel chip card-based light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) JF - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 118 (2006), H. 1-2 Y1 - 2006 SN - 0925-4005 N1 - Eurosensors XIX - Eurosensors XIX - The 19th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers SP - 33 EP - 40 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weber, Hans-Joachim A1 - Mo, Xiumei A1 - Ramakrishna, S. T1 - PCL-PGLA composite tubular scaffold preparation and biocompatibility investigation / X. Mo, H.-J. Weber, S. Ramakrishna JF - The International journal of artificial organs. 29 (2006), H. 8 Y1 - 2006 SP - 790 EP - 799 PB - - ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Grotendorst, Johannes T1 - Computational Nanoscience: Do it yourself! : winter school, 14 - 22 February 2006, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany ; lecture notes / Grotendorst, Johannes Y1 - 2006 SN - 3-00-017350-1 N1 - NIC series ; 31 ; Forschungszentrum / John-von-Neumann-Institut für Computing PB - NIC CY - Jülich ER -