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ArticleIEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences2021

Study of Čerenkov Light Emission in the Semiconductors TlBr and TlCl for TOF-PET.

Gerard Ariño-Estrada, Emilie Roncali, Aaron R Selfridge, Junwei Du, Jaroslaw Glodo, Kanai S Shah, Simon R Cherry

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Article in IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Current Status of Cherenkov-Based Gamma Detectors for TOF-PET and Proton Range Verification.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2026
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  5. High-performance dual-ended SiPM readout for TOF-PET with BGO and LYSO:Ce.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2025
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  9. TlCl:Be,I: a high sensitivity scintillation and Cherenkov radiator for TOF-PET.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2025
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  12. Novel high-stopping power scintillators for medical applications.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering · 2024
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  13. Cherenkov Light Emission in Pure Cherenkov Emitters for Prompt Gamma Imaging.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2024
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  16. Image Reconstruction Analysis for Positron Emission Tomography With Heterostructured Scintillators.IEEE transactions on radiation and plasma medical sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Gerard Ariño-EstradaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
Emilie RoncaliDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
Aaron R SelfridgeBiomedical Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA. He is now with United Imaging America, Houston, TX 77054, USA.
Junwei DuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
Jaroslaw GlodoRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA 02472, USA.
Kanai S ShahRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc., Watertown, MA 02472, USA.
Simon R CherryDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
University of California, Davis · USRadiation Monitoring Devices (United States) · US

Funding

Research at the interface of optical and ionizing radiation for innovative cancer imaging and therapyR35CA197608 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CHERRY, SIMON R · 2015 to 2021
$4.9M
New optical Monte Carlo simulation tools for nuclear medicineR01EB027130 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI RONCALI, EMILIE · 2019 to 2023
$1.5M
Novel ultra-fast photodetectors for near reconstruction-less time-of-flight positron emission tomographyR21EB028398 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI ARIÑO ESTRADA, GERARD · 2019 to 2021
$610k
Potential of Cerenkov Radiation for Fast Timing of TlBr Semiconductor Detectors for PETR03EB025533 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI ARIÑO ESTRADA, GERARD · 2017 to 2018
$157k
NCI NIH HHS R35 CA197608NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027130NIBIB NIH HHS R03 EB025533NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB028398
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thallium bromide (TlBr) and thallium chloride (TlCl) are semiconductor materials with high transparency to visible light, high index of refraction, and high detection efficiency for gamma rays and annihilation photons. This manuscript reports on measurements of the light intensity and timing response of Čerenkov light emitted in one 3 mm × 3 mm × 5 mm slab of each of these materials operated in coincidence with a lutetium fine silicate (LFS) crystal with dimensions of 3 mm × 3 mm × 20 mm. A

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CCI DetectorsČerenkov lightFast timingTlBrTlClTOF-PET

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