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Catarina Ortigao
Researcher at Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics
Publications - 41
Citations - 481
Catarina Ortigao is an academic researcher from Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Detector & Positron emission mammography. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 41 publications receiving 467 citations.
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Design and evaluation of the clear-PEM scanner for positron emission mammography
M.C. Abreu,J.D. Aguiar,F. G. Almeida,Pedro Almeida,P. Bento,B. Carrico,Miguel A. Ferreira,Nuno Ferreira,F. Goncalves,C. Leong,F. Lopes,P. Lousa,M.V. Martins,Nuno Matela,P.R. Mendes,R. Moura,J. Nobre,Nuno Oliveira,Catarina Ortigao,Luis Peralta,R. Pereira,J. Rego,R. Ribeiro,Pedro Rodrigues,José Paulo Sampaio,Ana Santos,L. G. T. Silva,João Carlos Silva,Pedro Sousa,Isabel C. Teixeira,João Paulo Teixeira,A. Trindade,Joao Varela +32 more
TL;DR: The Clear-PEM imaging system for positron emission mammography, under development by the PEM Consortium within the framework of the Crystal Clear Collaboration at CERN, is presented in this paper.
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Geant4 applications and developments for medical physics experiments
Pedro Rodrigues,R. Moura,Catarina Ortigao,Luis Peralta,Maria Grazia Pia,A. Trindade,J. Varela +6 more
TL;DR: The GEANT4 Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit as discussed by the authors provides the basic services and infrastructure required for the development of flexible simulation frameworks and applications which have found generalized use in high energy physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics and medical physics research.
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Clear-PEM: A PET imaging system dedicated to breast cancer diagnostics
M.C. Abreu,D. Aguiar,E. Albuquerque,F. G. Almeida,Pedro Almeida,Pedro Amaral,Etiennette Auffray,P. Bento,Peter Bruyndonckx,R. Bugalho,B. Carrico,H. Cordeiro,Márcio Ferreira,Nuno Ferreira,F. Goncalves,Paul Lecoq,C. Leong,F. Lopes,P. Lousã,Joan Luyten,M.V. Martins,Nuno Matela,Pedro Rato Mendes,R. Moura,J. Nobre,Nuno Oliveira,Catarina Ortigao,Luis Peralta,J. Rego,R. Ribeiro,Pedro Rodrigues,Ana Santos,João Carlos Silva,M. M. V. G. Silva,Stefaan Tavernier,Isabel C. Teixeira,João Paulo Teixeira,A. Trindade,J. Trummer,Joao Varela +39 more
TL;DR: The Clear-PEM scanner for positron emission mammography under development is described in this paper, which is based on pixelized LYSO crystals optically coupled to avalanche photodiodes and readout by a fast low-noise electronic system.
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Clear-PEM: A dedicated pet camera for improved breast cancer detection
M.C. Abreu,Pedro Almeida,F. Balau,Nuno Ferreira,S.T.G. Fetal,F.A.F. Fraga,M.V. Martins,Nuno Matela,R. Moura,Catarina Ortigao,Luis Peralta,P. Rato,R. Ribeiro,Pedro Rodrigues,Ana Santos,A. Trindade,J. Varela +16 more
TL;DR: The concept of Clear-PEM, the system presently developed in the frame of the Crystal Clear Collaboration at CERN, will be a dedicated scanner, offering better perspectives in terms of position resolution and detection sensitivity.
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EndoTOFPET-US: a novel multimodal tool for endoscopy and positron emission tomography
Nicolas Aubry,Etiennette Auffray,F B Mimoun,N. Brillouet,R. Bugalho,Edoardo Charbon,O Charles,D. Cortinovis,P Courday,Aron Cserkaszky,C Damon,K. Doroud,J M Fischer,Giulia Alice Fornaro,J.-M. Fourmigue,Benjamin Frisch,B Fürst,José Gardiazabal,K Gadow,Erika Garutti,C Gaston,A Gil-Ortiz,E Guedj,T. Harion,Pierre Jarron,J Kabadanian,Tobias Lasser,R Laugier,Paul Lecoq,D Lombardo,Shingo Mandai,E Mas,T. C. Meyer,O. Mundler,Nassir Navab,Catarina Ortigao,Marco Paganoni,Didier Perrodin,M. Pizzichemi,John O. Prior,Tobias Reichl,M Reinecke,M. Rolo,Hans-Christian Schultz-Coulon,Markus Schwaiger,Wei Shen,Alessandro Silenzi,João Carlos Silva,Rui F. Silva,I Somlai Schweiger,Rainer Stamen,Joerg Traub,Joao Varela,Viesturs Veckalns,V Vidal,J Vishwas,Thomas Wendler,C Xu,Sibylle Ziegler,M. Zvolsky +59 more
TL;DR: The EndoTOFPET-US project aims to develop a multimodal detector to foster the development of new biomarkers for prostate and pancreatic tumors that can guide further interventions of the organ, such as biopsy or in vivo confocal microscopy.