TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Brandenburg, G. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Saleh, H. A1 - Zimmermann, E. A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Halling, H. T1 - Pulse shape discrimination of LSO and LuYAP scintillators for depth of interaction detection in PET JF - 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 3 N2 - A feasible way to gain the depth of interaction information in a PET scanner is the use of phoswich detectors. In general the layer of interaction is identified front the pulse shape of the corresponding scintillator material. In this work pulses from LSO and LuYAP crystals were investigated in order to find a practical method of distinguishing. It turned out that such a pulse processing could he kept simple due to an additional slow component in the light decay of the LuYAP pulse. At the same time the short decay time guarantees that the major amount of the light output is still collected within a short pulse recording time. Y1 - 2003 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 1636 EP - 1639 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Brandenburg, G. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Saleh, H. A1 - Zimmermann, E. A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Halling, H. T1 - Pulse shape discrimination of LSO and LuYAP scintillators for depth of interaction detection in PET JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science N2 - A feasible way to gain the depth of interaction information in a positron emission tomography scanner is the use of phoswich detectors. In general, the layer of interaction is identified from the pulse shape of the corresponding scintillator material. In this work, pulses from LSO and LuYAP crystals were investigated in order to find a practical method of distinguishing. It turned out that such a pulse processing could be kept simple because of an additional slow component in the light decay of the LuYAP pulse. At the same time, the short decay time guarantees that the major amount of the light output is still collected within a short pulse recording time. Y1 - 2003 SN - 0018-9499 VL - 50 IS - 3 SP - 344 EP - 347 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Brandenburg, G. A1 - Brökel, M. A1 - Fuss, L. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Zimmermann, E. A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Halling, H. T1 - The ClearPET data acquisition JF - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 5 N2 - Within the Crystal Clear Collaboration a modular system for a small animal PET scanner (ClearPET™) has been developed. The modularity allows the assembly of scanners of different sizes and characteristics in order to fit the specific needs of the individual member institutions. Now a first demonstrator is being completed in Julich. The system performs depth of interaction detection by using a phoswich arrangement combining LSO and LuYAP scintillators which are coupled to multi-channel photomultipliers (PMTs). A free-running ADC digitizes the signal from the PMT and the complete scintillation pulses are 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. An advantage of that is that the coincidence window and the dimensions of the field of view can be adjusted easily. The ClearPET™ demonstrator is equipped with 10240 crystals on 80 PMTs. This paper presents an overview of the data acquisition system. Y1 - 2004 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 3097 EP - 3100 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Christ, D. A1 - Hollendung, A. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Weber, S. A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Halling, H. T1 - Homogenization of the MultiChannel PM gain by inserting light attenuating masks JF - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 4 N2 - MultiChannel Photomultipliers (PM), like the R7600-00-M64 or R5900-00-M64 from Hamamatsu, are often chosen as photodetectors in high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET). A major problem of this PM is the nonuniform channel gain. In order to solve this problem, light attenuating masks were created. The aim of the masks is a homogenization of the output of all 64 channels using different hole sizes at the channel positions. The hole area, which is individually defined for the different channels, is inversely proportional to the channel gain. The measurements by inserting light attenuating masks improved a homogenization to a ratio of 1:1.2. Y1 - 2004 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 2382 EP - 2385 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Christ, D. A1 - Hellendung, A. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Halling, H. T1 - Effects of crosstalk and gain nonuniformity using multichannel PMTs in the Clearpet® scanner JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment N2 - The ClearPET® scanners developed by the Crystal Clear Collaboration use multichannel PMTs as photodetectors with scintillator pixels coupled individually to each channel. In order to localize an event each channel anode is connected to a comparator that triggers when the anode signal exceeds a common predefined threshold. Two major difficulties here are crosstalk of light and the gain nonuniformity of the PMT channels. Crosstalk can generate false triggering in channels adjacent to the actual event. On the one hand this can be suppressed by sufficiently increasing the threshold, but on the other hand a threshold too high can already prevent valid events on the lower gain channels from being detected. Finally, both effects restrict the dynamic range of pulse heights that can be processed. The requirements to the dynamic range are not low as the ClearPET® scanners detect the depth of interaction by phoswich pixels consisting of LSO and Lu0.7Y0.3AP, two scintillators with different light yields. We will present a model to estimate the achievable dynamic range and show solutions to increase it. Y1 - 2005 SN - 0168-9002 N1 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Inorganic Scintillators and their Use in Scientific and Industrial Applications VL - 537 IS - 1-2 SP - 402 EP - 405 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beer, S. A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Hombach, T. A1 - Buehler, J. A1 - Jahnke, S. A1 - Khodaverdi, M. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Minwuyelet, S. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Roeb, G. A1 - Schurr, U. A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - Design and initial performance of PlanTIS: a high-resolution positron emission tomograph for plants JF - Physics in Medicine and Biology N2 - Positron emitters such as 11C, 13N and 18F and their labelled compounds are widely used in clinical diagnosis and animal studies, but can also be used to study metabolic and physiological functions in plants dynamically and in vivo. A very particular tracer molecule is 11CO2 since it can be applied to a leaf as a gas. We have developed a Plant Tomographic Imaging System (PlanTIS), a high-resolution PET scanner for plant studies. Detectors, front-end electronics and data acquisition architecture of the scanner are based on the ClearPET™ system. The detectors consist of LSO and LuYAP crystals in phoswich configuration which are coupled to position-sensitive photomultiplier tubes. Signals are continuously sampled by free running ADCs, and data are stored in a list mode format. The detectors are arranged in a horizontal plane to allow the plants to be measured in the natural upright position. Two groups of four detector modules stand face-to-face and rotate around the field-of-view. This special system geometry requires dedicated image reconstruction and normalization procedures. We present the initial performance of the detector system and first phantom and plant measurements. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/55/3/006 SN - 1361-6560 VL - 55 IS - 3 SP - 635 EP - 646 PB - IOP CY - Bristol ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Herzog, Hans A1 - Pietrzyk, Uwe A1 - Shah, N. Jon A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - The current state, challenges and perspectives of MR-PET JF - Neuroimage N2 - Following the success of PET/CT during the last decade and the recent increasing proliferation of SPECT/CT, another hybrid imaging instrument has been gaining more and more interest: MR-PET. First combined, simultaneous PET and MR studies carried out in small animals demonstrated the feasibility of the new approach. Concurrently, some prototypes of an MR-PET scanner for simultaneous human brain studies have been built, their performance is being tested and preliminary applications have already been shown. Through this pioneering work, it has become clear that advances in the detector design are necessary for further optimization. Recently, the different issues related to the present state and future prospects of MR-PET were presented and discussed during an international 2-day workshop at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, held after, and in conjunction with, the 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference in Dresden, Germany on October 27–28, 2008. The topics ranged from small animal MR-PET imaging to human MR-BrainPET imaging, new detector developments, challenges/opportunities for ultra-high field MR-PET imaging and considerations of possible future research and clinical applications. This report presents a critical summary of the contributions made to the workshop. Y1 - 2010 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.036 SN - 1053-8119 VL - 49 IS - 3 SP - 2072 EP - 2082 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - Double-side-readout technique for SiPM-matrices JF - 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC) N2 - In our case the double-side-method is used to minimize the complexity of a matrix-readout. Here the number of channels is reduced to 2√N̅. It is also possible to benefit from the method in a single pixel readout system. One signal can be used to measure position and energy of the event, the other one can be applied to a fast trigger-circuit at the same time. In a next step we will investigate timing behavior and electrical crosstalk of the circuit. Y1 - 2011 SN - 1095-7863 SP - 1486 EP - 1487 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - GEN A1 - Achten, Richard A1 - Bauer, Andreas A1 - Bertram, Walter A1 - Cremer, Markus A1 - Daemen, Jos A1 - Dehnhardt, Markus A1 - Fleischer, Manfred A1 - Kirchner, Peter A1 - Leyendecker, Marco A1 - Pietrzyk, Uwe A1 - Schmitz, Jakob A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Zilles, Karl T1 - Vorrichtung zum Halten eines lebenden Objektes bei physiologischen Messungen N2 - Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zum Halten eines lebenden Objektes bei physiologischen Messungen mit einem Basiselement und Mitteln zum Arretieren des lebenden Objektes, die atraumatische Ohrenhalter sowie ein Mundstück aufweisen, das mit einer Aussparung für die Zähne des Lebewesens versehen ist, mit einem Masseanteil von wenigstens 95% an glasfaserverstärktem Kunststoff. Y1 - 2005 N1 - Patent Anmelder : Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH SP - 1 EP - 17 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rongen, Heinz A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Schiek, Michael A1 - Tass, Alexander T1 - Vorrichtung zur Messung biomedizinischer Daten eines Probanden und Verfahren zur Simulation des Probanden mit in Echtzeit verarbeiteten Daten T1 - Device for measuring biomedical data from a testee and method for stimulating the testee with data processed in real-time N2 - Die Erfindung betrifft eine Vorrichtung zur Messung biomedizinischer Daten eines Probanden, mit einem Messsystem zur Erhebung der Daten sowie einer ersten Hardware-Komponente zur Aufzeichnung der Daten. In einer Verbindungsleitung zur Übertragung der Daten vom Messsystem zur ersten Hardware-Komponente zur Aufzeichnung der Daten ist erfindungsgemäss ein Mittel zur galvanischen Auftrennung der Daten angeordnet. Auf diese Weise ist wenigstens die Duplizierung der Daten für Datenverarbeitungszwecke gewährleistet. Die auf diese Weise verarbeiteten Daten werden für ein Verfahren zur Echtzeit-Stimulation eines Probanden genutzt. Y1 - 2006 N1 - Auch veröffentlicht als EP2007276 ; US2009069662 ; US8301222 ; JP2009535071 ; WO2007118443 ; AT 533401 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gebhardt, Andreas A1 - Fateri, Miranda T1 - 3D printing and its applications JF - RTejournal - Forum für Rapid Technologie N2 - Eine zunehmende Anzahl von Artikeln in Publikumszeitschriften und Journalen rückt die direkte Herstellung von Bauteilen und Figuren immer mehr in das Bewusstsein einer breiten Öffentlichkeit. Leider ergibt sich nur selten ein einigermaßen vollständiges Bild davon, wie und in welchen Lebensbereichen diese Techniken unseren Alltag verändern werden. Das liegt auch daran, dass die meisten Artikel sehr technisch geprägt sind und sich nur punktuell auf Beispiele stützen. Dieser Beitrag geht von den Bedürfnissen der Menschen aus, wie sie z.B. in der Maslow’schen Bedürfnispyramide strukturiert dargestellt sind und unterstreicht dadurch, dass 3D Printing (oder Additive Manufacturing resp. Rapid Prototyping) bereits alle Lebensbereiche erfasst hat und im Begriff ist, viele davon zu revolutionieren. N2 - An increasing amount of popular articles focus on making models and sculptures by 3D Printing thus making more and more even private users aware of this technology. Unfortunately they mostly draw an incomplete picture of how our daily life will be influenced by this new technology. Often this is caused by a very technical point of view based on not very representative examples. This article focuses on the peoples needs as they have been structured by the so-called Maslow pyramid. Doing so, it underlines that 3D Printing (called Additive Manufacturing or Rapid Prototyping as well) already touches all aspects of life and is about to revolutionize most of them. Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0009-2-35626 SN - 1614-0923 VL - 10 IS - 1 PB - Fachhochschule Aachen CY - Aachen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hötter, Jan-Steffen A1 - Fateri, Miranda A1 - Gebhardt, Andreas T1 - Prozessoptimierung des SLM-Prozesses mit hoch-reflektiven und thermisch sehr gut leitenden Materialien durch systematische Parameterfindung und begleitende Simulationen am Beispiel von Silber JF - RTejournal - Forum für Rapid Technologie N2 - Additive Manufacturing durch Aufschmelzen von Metallpulvern hat sich auf breiter Front als Herstellverfahren, auch für Endprodukte, etabliert. Besonders für die Variante des Selective Laser Melting (SLM) sind Anwendungen in der Zahntechnik bereits weit verbreitet und der Einsatz in sensitiven Branchen wie der Luftfahrt ist in greifbare Nähe gerückt. Deshalb werden auch vermehrt Anstrengungen unternommen, um bisher nicht verarbeitete Materialien zu qualifizieren. Dies sind vorzugsweise Nicht-Eisen- und Edelmetalle, die sowohl eine sehr hohe Reflektivität als auch eine sehr gute Wärmeleitfähigkeit aufweisen – beides Eigenschaften, die die Beherrschung des Laser-Schmelzprozesses erschweren und nur kleine Prozessfenster zulassen. Die Arbeitsgruppe SLM des Lehr- und Forschungsgebietes Hochleistungsverfahren der Fertigungstechnik hat sich unter der Randbedingung einer kleinen und mit geringer Laserleistung ausgestatteten SLM Maschine der Aufgabe gewidmet und am Beispiel von Silber die Parameterfelder für Einzelspuren und wenig komplexe Geometrien systematisch untersucht. Die Arbeiten wurden von FEM Simulationen begleitet und durch metallographische Untersuchungen verifiziert. Die Ergebnisse bilden die Grundlage zur schnellen Parameterfindung bei komplexen Geometrien und bei Veränderungen der Zusammensetzung, wie sie bei zukünftigen Legierungen zu erwarten sind. Die Ergebnisse werden exemplarisch auf unterschiedliche Geometrien angewandt und entsprechende Bauteile gezeigt. N2 - Additive manufacturing by melting of metal powders is a method that has been established even for the manufacturing of final products. In particular, Selective Laser Melting (SLM) is currently applied for prosthetic dentistry. In the near future, this technology will access sensitive industries like aerospace engineering. This leads to the need to process new materials. Therefore, especially non-ferrous metals and noble metals must be determined and qualified. These materials have in common a very high reflectivity and an excellent thermal conductivity. In general, these two properties counteract the control of the melt pool and contribute to very narrow process windows. The “SLM” research team of the Aachen University of Applied Science, AcUAS (FH Aachen) systematically investigated process parameter fields for silver. The work focused on a small SLM desktop machine with comparably low laser power. The results are verified using FEA and metallographic inspections and will support future set-ups for complex geometries. Furthermore, the obtained parameter fields are applied to make different geometric objects and to manufactured parts, which are presented. KW - SLM KW - Selektives Laser Schmelzen KW - Silber Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0009-2-33639 SN - 1614-0923 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Fachhoschule Aachen CY - Aachen ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Simonis, Rainer T1 - Experimentelle Darstellung von Kr/Xe-Hydrat bei Drücken bis 160 bar KW - Krypton KW - Xenon KW - krypton xenon hydrate Y1 - 1985 N1 - Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss. N1 - Berichte der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich ; 1995 PB - Zentralbibliothek d. Kernforschungsanlage CY - Jülich ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Simonis, Rainer A1 - Brücher, Heiner T1 - Verhalten von radioaktivem Krypton-85 in der Tiefsee : Abschlußbericht für d. Berichtszeitraum 1.10.1980 - 31.3.1983 KW - Krypton-85 Y1 - 1984 N1 - Spezielle Berichte der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich ; 267 PB - Zentralbibliothek d. Kernforschungsanlage CY - Jülich ER - TY - PAT A1 - Hofbauer, Peter A1 - Härtel, Günter A1 - Lösing, Karl-Heinrich A1 - Dorner, Robert A1 - Simonis, Rainer A1 - Schulte, Erasmus T1 - Brennstoffeinspritzsystem für Brennkraftmaschinen : Offenlegungsschrift DE 3833215 A1 ; Offenlegungstag: 28.12.89 N2 - Es wird ein Brennstoffeinspritzsystem für Brennkraftmaschinen vorgeschlagen, bei dem ein definiertes Teil eines fest vorgegebenen Brennstoffvolumens durch die Druckerhöhung innerhalb einer brennstoffeinschließenden Kammer eine definierte Brennstoffmenge über jeweils ein Rückschlagventil abgespritzt wird. Ein elektronisches Steuergerät berechnet die Dauer und/oder Intensität und gegebenenfalls die Impulsfolge eines zum Beispiel zur Verdampfung einer bestimmten Brennstoffmenge erforderlichen Laserimpulses. Das System kann für Ein- oder Mehrstelleinspritzung Verwendung finden. KW - Brennkraftmaschine KW - Brennstoffeinspritzsystem Y1 - 1989 PB - Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt CY - München ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mandelartz, Johannes T1 - Der Sekundäraluminium-Stoffstrom in Deutschland unter transporttechnischen und logistischen Gesichtspunkten KW - Aluminium KW - Recycling KW - Materialfluss KW - Logistik KW - Transport Y1 - 2000 SN - 3-86073-672-8 N1 - Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss. N1 - Technische Hochschule Aachen / Lehrstuhl und Institut für Bergwerks- und Hüttenmaschinenkunde: Aachener Beiträge zur angewandten Rechnertechnik des Institutes für Bergwerks- und Hüttenmaschinenkunde ; 40 PB - Mainz CY - Aachen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mandelartz, Johannes T1 - VDI-Richtlinien – mit Technischen Regeln Wirtschaftlichkeit erhöhen und Standards setzen T2 - Betriebliche Instandhaltung N2 - Der Verein Deutscher Ingenieure e.V. (VDI) ist ein gemeinnütziger, wirtschaftlich und politisch unabhängiger, technisch-wissenschaftlicher Verein von Ingenieuren und Naturwissenschaftlern. Mit über 137 000 persönlich zugeordneten Mitgliedern ist er eine der größten Ingenieur-Vereinigungen Europas und gilt in Deutschland als führender Sprecher der Technik und der Ingenieure. 1856 gegründet, hat er viele für die Technik wesentliche Entwicklungen in Gang gesetzt, so im Bereich der technischen Überwachung, der technischen Regelsetzung und Normung, der Arbeitsstudien, im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und im Patentwesen. Seit seiner Gründung sieht es der VDI als seine Aufgabe, "das Zusammenwirken aller geistiger Kräfte der Technik im Bewusstsein ethischer Verantwortung zu fördern" und die Lebensmöglichkeiten aller Menschen durch Entwicklung und sinnvoller Anwendung technischer Mittel zu verbessern. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-642-00502-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00502-2_26 SP - 311 EP - 317 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Reichel, Jens A1 - Müller, Gerhard A1 - Mandelartz, Johannes T1 - Betriebliche Instandhaltung KW - Unternehmen KW - Produktionssystem KW - Instandhaltung Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-642-00502-2 PB - Springer CY - Berlin [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Patrick A1 - Oberländer, Jan A1 - Suso, Henri-Pierre A1 - Rysstad, Gunnar A1 - Keusgen, Michael A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Towards a wireless sensor system for real-time H2O2 monitoring in aseptic food processes JF - Physica status solidi (a) N2 - A wireless sensor system based on the industrial ZigBee standard for low-rate wireless networking was developed that enables real-time monitoring of gaseous H2O2 during the package sterilization in aseptic food processes. The sensor system consists of a remote unit connected to a calorimetric gas sensor, which was already established in former works, and an external base unit connected to a laptop computer. The remote unit was built up by an XBee radio frequency (RF) module for data communication and a programmable system-on-chip controller to read out the sensor signal and process the sensor data, whereas the base unit is a second XBee RF module. For the rapid H2O2 detection on various locations inside the package that has to be sterilized, a novel read-out strategy of the calorimetric gas sensor was established, wherein the sensor response is measured within the short sterilization time and correlated with the present H2O2 concentration. In an exemplary measurement application in an aseptic filling machinery, the suitability of the new, wireless sensor system was demonstrated, wherein the influence of the gas velocity on the H2O2 distribution inside a package was determined and verified with microbiological tests. KW - calorimetric gas sensor;hydrogen peroxide;wireless sensor system Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201200920 SN - 1862-6319 VL - 210 IS - 5 SP - 877 EP - 883 PB - Wiley CY - Weinheim ER - 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 -