Roger Lecomte

Prix et distinctions

• (2024) IEEE Life Fellow. IEEE Foundation.
• (2022) 2022 IEEE Glenn F. Knoll Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award. IEEE Foundation.
• (2019) Acfas Jacques-Rousseau Award of Multidisciplinarity / Prix Acfas Jacques-Rousseau de multidisciplinarité. Acfas.
• (2018) Fellow. European Academy of Sciences.
• (2017) IEEE Life member. IEEE.
• (2016) 2016 IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences CANPS Award. IEEE.
• (2016) William Feindel Neuroimaging Lecture Award. Quebec Bio-Imaging Network / Réseau en Bio-Imagerie du Quebec.
• (2014) Prix Michel-Sarrazin Award. Club de recherches cliniques du Québec.
• (2014) Career Excellence Award for Commitment, Dynamism, Professionalism and Contribution. Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke.
• (2014) Mérite estrien, catégorie innovation / Estrie Merit Award of Innovation. La Tribune.
• (2013) Prix scientifique du Québec Lionel-Boulet / Quebec Scientific Award. Gouvernement du Québec.
• (2012) David E. Mitchell Award of Distinction 2012 for Development of LabPET scanner (w/ R Fontaine). La Fondation des Prix Ernest C. Manning.

Financement

• Subvention. Développements en tomographie d'émission par positrons (TEP) cérébrale à ultra-haute résolution spatiale. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). Discovery grant. 375 000 $. (2025-2030).
  Numéro de subvention : RGPIN-2025-06139.
• Subvention. Développements en imagerie moléculaire TEP/TDM pour la recherche biomédicale. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). Discovery grant. 55 000 $. (2024-2025).
• Subvention. Role d'un supplement de taurine pour la prevention de la necrose, de l'hypertrophie, de la defaillance cardiaque et de la mort prematuree dans la cardiomyopathie hereditaire. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 830 025 $. (2023-2028).
  Numéro de subvention : 202209PJT. Voir plus
• Subvention. Développements en imagerie moléculaire TEP/TDM pour la recherche biomédicale. NSERC (Ottawa, Canada). Discovery grant. 55 000 $. (2023-2024).
  Numéro de subvention : RGPIN-2019-06187.
• Subvention. Développements en imagerie moléculaire TEP/TDM pour la recherche biomédicale. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 55 000 $. (2022-2023).
  Numéro de subvention : 13603645. Voir plus
• Subvention. Conception de nouveaux scanners, nouvelles technologies et nouveaux algorithmes en imagerie médicale. Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Ottawa, Canada). Ressources de calcul / Computing resources. 153 686 $. (2022-2026).
  Numéro de subvention : ID 4063.
• Subvention. Project 8: Use AI to optimize the world most accurate brain PET scanner for drug development. Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie (Montreal, Canada). Consortium Acuité-QC / Acuity-QC Consortium. 1 350 000 $. (2021-2024).
  Numéro de subvention : Project #8. Voir plus
• Subvention. Project 8: Use AI to optimize the world most accurate brain PET scanner for drug development. IR&T Inc (Sherbrooke, Canada). Consortium Acuité-QC / Acuity-QC Consortium. 700 000 $. (2021-2024). Voir plus
• Subvention. Développements en imagerie moléculaire TEP/TDM pour la recherche biomédicale. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 55 000 $. (2021-2022).
  Numéro de subvention : 13006186. Voir plus
• Subvention. Développements en imagerie moléculaire TEP/TDM pour la recherche biomédicale. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 55 000 $. (2020-2021).
  Numéro de subvention : 9872683. Voir plus
• Subvention. Sources de rayons X pulsées pour imagerie par temps de vol de photons. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 150 000 $. (2019-2020).
  Numéro de subvention : 9443028. Voir plus
• Subvention. Développements en imagerie moléculaire TEP/TDM pour la recherche biomédicale. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 55 000 $. (2019-2020).
  Numéro de subvention : 9448531. Voir plus
• Subvention. Principes fondamentaux, reconstruction d'image et apprentissage machine en imagerie médicale. Calcul Canada (Montréal, Canada). Ressources de calcul / Computing resources. 127 472 $. (2019-2022).
  Numéro de subvention : ID 2630.
• Subvention. Ultra High Resolution Brain PET Scanner for in-vivo Autoradiography Imaging. National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (Bethesda, États-Unis). 4 627 564 USD. (2018-2024).
  Numéro de subvention : U01EB027003. Voir plus
• Subvention. Ultra-high resolution positron tomograph for imaging medium size animals and the human brain. MEDTEQ (Montréal, Canada). Projet de recherche collaborative. 3 571 347 $. (2018-2021).
  Numéro de subvention : 8-B.
• Subvention. Light collection optimization with semiconductor photodetectorsOptimisation de la collecte de lumière avec photodétecteurs semiconducteurs. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 8 334 $. (2015-2016).
  Numéro de subvention : 202608. Voir plus
• Subvention. ‘Best in Class’ Platform for Blood Brain Barrier Delivery of Therapeutics. Brain Canada Foundation (Montreal, Canada). 1 495 000 $. (2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 9458240. Voir plus
• Subvention. Development and experimentation of combined PET/ SPECT/CT multimodal imaging for biomedical research. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). Discovery grant. 310 000 $. (2014-2019).
  Numéro de subvention : 632919. Voir plus
• Subvention salariée. Light collection optimization with semiconductor photodetectors / Optimisation de la collecte de lumière avec photodétecteurs semiconducteurs. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 8 334 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 195945. Voir plus
• Subvention. Ultra-low noise and high signal-to-noise ratio small animal pre-clinical imaging of ultra-faint fluorescence, bioluminescence and Cerenkov luminescence. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 69 670 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 564889. Voir plus
• Subvention. Analyse cardiaque fonctionnelle en imagerie TEP préclinique. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 25 000 $. (2014-2015).
  Numéro de subvention : 558505. Voir plus
• Subvention. Développements et exploitation de l'imagerie multimodale TEP/TEM/TDM combinée pour la recherche biomédicale. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 35 000 $. (2013-2014).
  Numéro de subvention : 522670. Voir plus
• Subvention. Conception d'un scanner de tomographie d'émission par positrons haute performance pour l'imagerie moléculaire préclinique. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 1 390 697 $. (2013-2017).
  Numéro de subvention : 596179. Voir plus
• Subvention. Producing medical isotopes in a cyclotron. Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé (Montreal, Canada). (2013-2014).
  Numéro de subvention : 8519058. Voir plus
• Subvention. La sommation temporelle comme marqueur de douleur secondaire à l'arthrose: validation sur le modèle naturel félin. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 143 320 $. (2012-2014).
  Numéro de subvention : 531153. Voir plus
• Subvention. Validation de divers algorithmes de reconnaissance de cristaux appliqués à la tomographie d’émission par positrons. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Montreal, Canada). 5 000 $. (2012-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 171186. Voir plus
• Subvention. Whole body small animal fluorescence molecular tomography with multimodal development and cross-validation. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 127 572 $. (2012-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 515300. Voir plus
• Subvention. La sommation temporelle comme marqueur de douleur secondaire à l'arthrose: validation sur le modèle naturel félin. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 143 320 $. (2012-2014).
  Numéro de subvention : 2988193. Voir plus
• Subvention. Développement de nouvelles stratégies thérapeutiques pour enrayer la dissémination métastatique et les douleurs chroniques consécutives au cancer du sein. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 445 569 $. (2010-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 2a8b1027145aab5a3112d48189f18397. Voir plus
• Subvention. Peptides monomères et hétérodimères substitués par un chélateur NOTA et radiomarqués au Cu-64. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 17 500 $. (2009-2010).
  Numéro de subvention : d7c3158493223cf7bde55bdc0040a71c. Voir plus
• Subvention. Dévelopements de l'imagerie TEP/TDM combinée pour petits animaux. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 292 000 $. (2009-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 513833. Voir plus
• Subvention. Whole body small animal fluorescence molecular tomography with multimodal development and cross-validation. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 283 992 $. (2009-2011).
  Numéro de subvention : 463304. Voir plus
• Subvention. Imagerie moléculaire multimodale à haute résolution sur modèle animal: un nouvel outil polyvalent pour la recherche biomédicale. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 554 140 $. (2008-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : ad06a530e9c80f380f334324517cd7b0. Voir plus
• Subvention. 3-D Scaffolds as directional guides for engineering microvessel networks. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 87 084 $. (2008-2009).
  Numéro de subvention : 396378. Voir plus
• Subvention. Conception et évaluation d'un scanner bimodal Tomographe d'émission par Positrons / Tomodensitomètre basé sur des Photodiodes à avalanche. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 122 050 $. (2008-2009).
  Numéro de subvention : 398989. Voir plus
• Subvention. Plate-forme µTEP/µTEM/µTDM opérationnelle et polyvalente d'imagerie moléculaire sur modèle animal pour la recherche biomédicale. Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 264 299 $. (2007).
  Numéro de subvention : CFI8698. Voir plus
• Subvention. Quantitative molecular PET imaging in mouse models of heart disease. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 268 238 $. (2006-2009).
  Numéro de subvention : 9fceb04974fcfe65a1da0884289e30d5. Voir plus
• Subvention. Plate-forme intégrée d'imagerie moléculaire multi-modale en modèle animal /integrated multimodality molecular imaging platform in animal models. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 625 010 $. (2006-2011).
  Numéro de subvention : c7c375fd25536548a06efd435a0b7c54. Voir plus
• Subvention. Conception et évaluation d'un scanner bimodal Tomographe d'émission par Positrons / Tomodensitomètre basé sur des Photodiodes à avalanche. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 179 550 $. (2006-2008).
  Numéro de subvention : 368720. Voir plus
• Subvention. Dévelopements de l'imagerie TEP/TDM combinée pour petits animaux. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 219 000 $. (2005-2008).
  Numéro de subvention : 378344. Voir plus
• Subvention. Integrated multimodality molecular imaging of tumor biological characteristics and vascular microenvironment in small animal models. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 394 336 $. (2004-2006).
  Numéro de subvention : f4331e1ac09c61ae42e219eef52b678b. Voir plus
• Subvention. Conception et caractérisation d'un simulateur de TEP et TEP/TDM entièrement numérique basé sur des photodiodes avalanches. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 125 000 $. (2004-2006).
  Numéro de subvention : 294928. Voir plus
• Subvention. 3-D Scaffolds as directional guides for engineering microvessel networks. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 472 066 $. (2004-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : 340899. Voir plus
• Subvention. Étude théorique et développement d'un système d'imagerie bimodal tomographe à émission de positrons / tomodensimètre ( TEP / TDM ) pour petits animaux. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 236 906 $. (2004-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : 324862. Voir plus
• Subvention. Etude théorique et développement d'un systeme d'imagerie bimodal tomographe à émission de positrons/Tomodensimétrie (TEP/TDM) pour petits animaux. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 236 904 $. (2004-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : 9e47e703bf854f9ed244f9bbaac04cec. Voir plus
• Subvention. Detector developments for positron emission tomography and other imaging applications. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 73 500 $. (2003-2004).
  Numéro de subvention : 252140. Voir plus
• Subvention. Reconstruction d`images par matrice pseudo-inverse en tomographie d`émission par positrons. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 119 400 $. (2001-2005).
  Numéro de subvention : 280587. Voir plus
• Subvention. Second generation photosensitizers and their action mechanism. (photosensibilisateurs de deuxième génération et leur mécanismes d'action. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 399 791 $. (2000-2004).
  Numéro de subvention : 7ea893d61a5560c7888bb9cfe6d3c938. Voir plus
• Subvention. Detector developments for positron emission tomography and other imaging applications. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 74 975 $. (2000-2001).
  Numéro de subvention : 176034. Voir plus
• Subvention. Tomographie d'émission par positrons à haute résolution sur modèle animal: un outil pour la recherche biomédicale. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Ottawa, Canada). 962 007 $. (1999-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : cc019070bbe169f9d8632bc71aa90dee. Voir plus
• Subvention. Detector developments for positron emission tomography and other imaging applications. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 74 910 $. (1998-1999).
  Numéro de subvention : 140799. Voir plus
• Subvention. Imagerie multispectrale en tomographie démission par positrons. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 19 800 $. (1998-1999).
  Numéro de subvention : 132973. Voir plus
• Subvention. Imagerie multispectrale en tomographie d'émission par positrons. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 59 580 $. (1997-2001).
  Numéro de subvention : 173723. Voir plus
• Subvention. Imagerie multispectrale en tomographie d'émission par positrons. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 54 000 $. (1994-1997).
  Numéro de subvention : 7320. Voir plus

Publications

Articles

• Maxime Toussaint, Francis Loignon-Houle, Jean-Pierre Dussault, Roger Lecomte. (2026). Time-of-Flight Requirements to Mitigate Blurring Induced by Annihilation Photon Acollinearity. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Christophe Morin, Alexandru Panaitescu, Gabriel Richard, Sarah-Gabrielle Taillandier-Pensarini, Nathalie Samson, Clément Bouchard, Stéphanie Laferté, Émile Vallières, Matthias Kohlhauer, Renaud Tissier, Etienne Croteau, Roger Lecomte, Jean-Paul Praud, Philippe Micheau, Etienne Fortin-Pellerin. (2026). CT-scan assessment of lung volumes and effect of gravity on lung ventilation during and after total liquid ventilation in piglets. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology. DOI
• Vincent Doyon, Otman Sarrhini, Francis Loignon-Houle, Maxime Toussaint, Étienne Auger, Christian Thibaudeau, Etienne Croteau, Éric Lavallée, Jean-François Beaudoin, Jean-Daniel Leroux, Éric Turcotte, Roger Lecomte. (2025). PET Imaging of the Human Brain with Microvolumetric Spatial Resolution. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Michel ElChoueiry, Harsimran Sidhu, Maude Lévesque, Dominique Lévesque, Jean‐François Jacques, Otman Sarrhini, Jean‐François Beaudoin, Molly Caron, Brenda Gaudette, Roger Lecomte, Xavier Roucou, François‐Michel Boisvert, Jean‐Philippe Brosseau. (2025). Development, validation, and preliminary phenotypic characterization of a <i>Col6a3</i> knockout mouse model targeting exon 3. Animal Models and Experimental Medicine. DOI
• Etienne Croteau, Gabriel Richard, Patrick Prud’Homme, Etienne Rousseau, Stephen C. Cunnane, Véronique Dumulon-Perreault, Otman Sarrhini, Serge Phoenix, Sébastien Tremblay, Brigitte Guérin, Roger Lecomte. (2025). Heart ketone metabolism under acute ketone supplementation in ZDF rats, a type 2 diabetes heart failure model. EJNMMI Research. DOI
• Francis Loignon-Houle, Nicolaus Kratochwil, Maxime Toussaint, Carsten Lowis, Gerard Ariño-Estrada, Antonio J. Gonzalez, Etiennette Auffray, Roger Lecomte. (2025). Improving timing resolution of BGO for TOF-PET: a comparative analysis with and without deep learning. EJNMMI Physics. DOI
• Jonathan Bouchard, Arnaud Samson, Romain Espagnet, Caroline Paulin, Nicolas Viscogliosi, Jean-François Beaudoin, Louis Arpin, Charles Bourcier-Guérette, Roger Lecomte, Réjean Fontaine. (2025). Design and Evaluation of a 2.5D-Assembled High-Density Detection Module for the Ultra-High Resolution Brain PET Scanner. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Yassir Najmaoui, Yanis Chemli, Maxime Toussaint, Yoann Petibon, Baptiste Marty, Kathryn Fontaine, Jean-Dominique Gallezot, Gašper Razdevšek, Matic Orehar, Maeva Dhaynaut, Nicolas Guehl, Rok Dolenec, Rok Pestotnik, Keith Johnson, Jinsong Ouyang, Marc Normandin, Marc-André Tétrault, Roger Lecomte, Georges El Fakhri, Thibault Marin. (2025). YRT-PET: An Open-Source GPU-Accelerated Image Reconstruction Engine for Positron Emission Tomography. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Maxime Toussaint, Francis Loignon-Houle, Étienne Auger, Gabriel Lapointe, Jean-Pierre Dussault, Roger Lecomte. (2024). On the implementation of acollinearity in PET Monte Carlo simulations. Physics in Medicine & Biology. DOI
• Otman Sarrhini, Pedro D’Orléans-Juste, Jacques A. Rousseau, Jean-François Beaudoin, Roger Lecomte. (2023). Enhanced Extraction of Blood and Tissue Time-Activity Curves in Cardiac Mouse FDG PET Imaging by Means of Constrained Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging. DOI
• Francis Loignon-Houle, Maxime Toussaint, Émilie Bertrand, Félix Camirand Lemyre, Roger Lecomte. (2023). Timing Estimation and Limits in TOF-PET Detectors Producing Prompt Photons. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Laurence Convert, Otman Sarrhini, Maxime Paillé, Nicolas Salem, Paul G Charette, Roger Lecomte. (2022). The ultra high sensitivity blood counter: a compact, MRI-compatible, radioactivity counter for pharmacokinetic studies in μl volumes. Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express. DOI
• Nikta Zarif Yussefian, Emilie Gaudin, Roger Lecomte, Rejean Fontaine. (2022). Predicting Small Lesion Detectability for a Small Animal TOF PET Scanner. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Haithem Bouziri, Catherine M. Pepin, Konin Koua, Maher Benhouria, Caroline Paulin, Jinsong Ouyang, Marc Normandin, Jean-Francois Pratte, Georges El Fakhri, Roger Lecomte, Rejean Fontaine. (2022). Investigation of a Model-Based Time-Over-Threshold Technique for Phoswich Crystal Discrimination. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Roger LECOMTE, Thititip Tippayamontri, Esteban Betancourt-Santander, Brigitte Guérin, Roger Lecomte, Benoit Paquette, Léon Sanche. (2022). Estimation of the Internal Dose Imparted by 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose to Tissues by Using Fricke Dosimetry in a Phantom and Positron Emission Tomography. Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Poirier, Donald, Maltais, Rene, Rousseau, Jacques A., Roy, Jenny, Phoenix, Serge, Cortes-Benitez, Francisco, Lecomte, Roger. (2022). Chemical synthesis of fluorinated and iodinated 17?-HSD3 inhibitors and evaluation for imaging prostate cancer tumors and tissue biodistribution. Bioorganic Chemistry. DOI
• Kuttner, S., Luppino, L. T., Wickstrom, K. K., Midtbo, N. T. D., Dorraji, E., Oteiza, A., Martin-Armas, M., Fenton, K., Convert, L., Sarrhini, O., Lecomte, R., Kampffmeyer, M. C., Jenssen, R., Axelsson, J., Sundset, R. (2022). Deep learning derived input-function in dynamic <SUP>18</SUP>F-FDG PET imaging of mice. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Keita-Alassane, Sokhna, Otis, Colombe, Bouet, Emilie, Guillot, Martin, Frezier, Marilyn, Delsart, Alienor, Moreau, Maxim, Bedard, Agathe, Gaumond, Isabelle, Pelletier, Jean-Pierre, Martel-Pelletier, Johanne, Beaudry, Francis, Lussier, Bertrand, Lecomte, Roger, Marchand, Serge, Troncy, Eric. (2022). Estrogenic impregnation alters pain expression: analysis through functional neuropeptidomics in a surgical rat model of osteoarthritis. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Arpin, L., Lauzier-Trepanier, P., Thibaudeau, C., Bouchard, J., Espagnet, R., Samson, A., Leroux, J., Fontaine, R. (2022). First images from the next-generation UHR human brain PET scanner. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.
• Loignon-Houle, Francis, Charlebois, Serge A., Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger. (2022). Monte Carlo simulations of energy, time and spatial evolution of primary electrons generated by 511 keV photons in various scintillators. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Moghadam, Narjes, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2022). Novel carbon nanotube-composite for electromagnetic shielding of radiation detectors: A step toward fully integrated positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems. Microelectronic Engineering. DOI
• Maxime Toussaint, Roger Lecomte, Jean-Pierre Dussault. (2021). Improvement of Spatial Resolution With Iterative PET Reconstruction Using Ultrafast TOF. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Nikta Zarif Yussefian, Maxime Toussaint, Emilie Gaudin, Roger Lecomte, Rejean Fontaine. (2021). TOF Benefits and Trade-offs on Image Contrast-to-Noise Ratio Performance for a Small Animal PET Scanner. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Francis Loignon-Houle, Stefan Gundacker, Maxime Toussaint, Félix Camirand Lemyre, Etiennette Auffray, Réjean Fontaine, Serge A Charlebois, Paul Lecoq, Roger Lecomte. (2021). DOI estimation through signal arrival time distribution: a theoretical description including proof of concept measurements. Physics in Medicine & Biology. DOI
• Gaudin, Emilie, Thibaudeau, Christian, Arpin, Louis, Leroux, Jean-Daniel, Toussaint, Maxime, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Cadorette, Jules, Paille, Maxime, Pepin, Catherine M., Koua, Konin, Bouchard, Jonathan, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Paulin, Caroline, Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger. (2021). Performance evaluation of the mouse version of the LabPET II PET scanner. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Moghadam, Narjes, Lecomte, Roger, Mercure, Stephane, Rehani, Madan M., Nassiri, Moulay Ali. (2021). Simplified size adjusted dose reference levels for adult CT examinations: A regional study. European Journal of Radiology. DOI
• Francis Loignon-Houle, Maxime Toussaint, Min Sun Lee, Joshua W. Cates, Roger Lecomte. (2020). Experimental validation of a coincidence time resolution metric including depth-of-interaction bias for TOF-PET. Physics in Medicine & Biology. DOI
• Liam Carroll, Etienne Croteau, Gustavo Kertzscher, Otman Sarrhini, Vincent Turgeon, Roger Lecomte, Shirin A. Enger. (2020). Cross-validation of a non-invasive positron detector to measure the arterial input function for pharmacokinetic modelling in dynamic positron emission tomography. Physica Medica. DOI
• (2020). Dual-Threshold Time-over-Threshold Nonlinearity Correction for PET Detectors. Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment. DOI
• David André Barrière, Élora Midavaine, Louis Doré-Savard, Karyn Kirby, Luc Tremblay, Jean-François Beaudoin, Nicolas Beaudet, Jean-Michel Longpré, Roger Lecomte, Martin Lepage, Philippe Sarret. (2020). Publisher Correction: Dichotomic effects of clinically used drugs on tumor growth, bone remodeling and pain management. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Narjes Moghadam, Louis Arpin, Romain Espagnet, Jonathan Bouchard, Nicolas Viscogliosi, Roger Lecomte, Réjean Fontaine. (2020). Performance investigation of LabPET II detector technology in an MRI-like environment. Physics in Medicine & Biology. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Phoenix, Serge, Lawson, Christine, Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger, Tai, Lee-Hwa, Turcotte, Eric E., Leyton, Jeffrey, V. (2020). A preclinical PET dual-tracer imaging protocol for ER and HER2 phenotyping in breast cancer xenografts. EJNMMI Research. DOI
• Espagnet, Romain, Lakhssassi, Ahmed, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2020). A thermal model of the LabPET II ASIC. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Phoenix, Serge, Lavallee, Eric, Rousseau, Jacques A., Guerin, Brigitte, Turcotte, Eric E., Lecomte, Roger. (2020). Cross-Species Physiological Assessment of Brain Estrogen Receptor Expression Using F-18-FES and F-18-4FMFES PET Imaging. Molecular Imaging and Biology. DOI
• Moghadam, Narjes, Bouchard, Jonathan, Espagnet, Romain, Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger. (2020). MRI-compatibility study of a PET-insert based on a low-profile detection front-end with submillimeter spatial resolution. Medical Physics. DOI
• Espagnet, Romain, Bouchard, Jonathan, Moghadam, Narjes, Samson, Arnaud, Lakhssassi, Ahmed, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2020). Thermal management proposal for a low-profile positron emission tomography fully pixelated front-end for submillimetric resolution MRI compatible insert dedicated to small animals. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• David André Barrière, Élora Midavaine, Louis Doré-Savard, Karyn Kirby, Luc Tremblay, Jean-François Beaudoin, Nicolas Beaudet, Jean-Michel Longpré, Roger Lecomte, Martin Lepage, Philippe Sarret. (2019). Dichotomic effects of clinically used drugs on tumor growth, bone remodeling and pain management. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Emilie Gaudin, Maxime Toussaint, Christian Thibaudeau, Maxime Paille, Rejean Fontaine, Roger Lecomte. (2019). Performance Simulation of an Ultrahigh Resolution Brain PET Scanner Using 1.2-mm Pixel Detectors. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• (2019). Intratumoral ¹⁸F-FLT infusion in metabolic targeted radiotherapy. EJNMMI research. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Lavallee, Eric, Phoenix, Serge, Senta, Helena, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Turcotte, Aric. (2019). 4FMFES-PET in ER plus obular breast cancer revealing what FDG-PFT could not. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Toussaint, Maxime, Loignon-Houle, Francis, Dussault, Jean-Pierre, Lecomte, Roger. (2019). Analytical model of DOI-induced time bias in ultra-fast scintillation detectors for TOF-PET. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Carroll, Liam, Croteau, Etienne, Kertzscher, Gustavo, Sarrhini, Otman, Lecomte, Roger, Enger, Shirin. (2019). Cross-validation of a non-invasive positron detector to measure the arterial input function for pharmacokinetic modelling in dynamic PET imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Croteau, Etienne, Rousseau, Etienne, Prud'Homme, Patrick, Cunnane, Stephen, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Archambault, Melanie, Sarrhini, Otman, Richard, MarieAnne, Tremblay, Sebastien, Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger. (2019). Heart ketone uptake reserve in diabetic ZDF rats with an acute ketone ester supplementation: a [C-11]-acetoacetate rest-stress study. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lecomte, R., Gaudin, E., Toussaint, M., Thibaudeau, C., Arpin, L., Leroux, J. D., Bouchard, J., Samson, A., Fontaine, R., Teams, L. G. (2019). Progress in spatial resolution for imaging the human brain. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism.
• Gaudin, Emilie, Toussaint, Maxime, Thibaudeau, Christian, Fontaine, Rejean, Normandin, Marc, Petibon, Yoann, Ouyang, Jinsong, El Fakhri, Georges, Lecomte, Roger. (2019). Simulation Studies of the SAVANT High Resolution Dedicated Brain PET Scanner Using Individually Coupled APD Detectors and DOI Encoding. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Moghadam, Narjes, Espagnet, Romain, Bouchard, Jonathan, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2019). Studying the effects of metallic components of PET-insert on PET and MRI performance due to gradient switching. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Moghadam, Narjes, Espagnet, Romain, Bouchard, Jonathan, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2019). Studying the effects of metallic components of PET-insert on PET and MRI performance due to gradient switching. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Carroll, L., Kertzscher, G., Croteau, E., Sarrhini, O., Lecomte, R., Enger, S. Abbasi Nejad. (2019). Validation of a Non Invasive Positron Detector for Use with Dynamic PET Under Clinical Conditions. Medical Physics.
• Paquette, Michel, Phoenix, Serge, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Turcotte, Aric. (2019). arlIFES and FOG -PET of a ER plus uterine cancer mouse renograft model. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Samson, Arnaud, Thibaudeau, Christian, Bouchard, Jonathan, Gaudin, Emilie, Paulin, Caroline, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2018). A fully automated and scalable timing probe-based method for time alignment of the LabPET II scanners. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Lavallee, Eric, Phoenix, Serge, Ouellet, Rene, Senta, Helena, van Lier, Johan E., Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger, Turcotte, Eric E. (2018). Improved Estrogen Receptor Assessment by PET Using the Novel Radiotracer F-18-4FMFES in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Patients: An Ongoing Phase II Clinical Trial. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Beaudoin, Simon, Paquette, Michel, Fafard-Couture, Laurent, Tremblay, Mylene A., Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Leyton, Jeffrey V. (2018). Initial Evaluation of Antibody-conjugates Modified with Viral-derived Peptides for Increasing Cellular Accumulation and Improving Tumor Targeting. Journal of Visualized Experiments. DOI
• Labbe, Sebastien M., Caron, Alexandre, Festuccia, William T., Lecomte, Roger, Richard, Denis. (2018). Interscapular brown adipose tissue denervation does not promote the oxidative activity of inguinal white adipose tissue in male mice. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. DOI
• Houde, Martin, Schwertani, Adel, Touil, Hanene, Desbiens, Louisane, Sarrhini, Otman, Lecomte, Roger, Lepage, Martin, Gagnon, Hugo, Takai, Shinji, Pejler, Gunnar, Jacques, Danielle, Gobeil, Fernand, Jr., Day, Robert, D'Orleans-Juste, Pedro. (2018). Mouse Mast Cell Protease 4 Deletion Protects Heart Function and Survival After Permanent Myocardial Infarction. Frontiers in Pharmacology. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Beaudoin, Simon, Tremblay, Mylene-Annie, Jean, Steve, Lopez, Angel F., Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Bentourkia, M'hamed, Sabbagh, Robert, Leyton, Jeffrey V. (2018). NLS-Cholic Acid Conjugation to IL-5R alpha-Specific Antibody Improves Cellular Accumulation and In Vivo Tumor-Targeting Properties in a Bladder Cancer Model. Bioconjugate Chemistry. DOI
• Alexandre Caron, Sébastien M. Labbé, Sophie Carter, Marie-Claude Roy, Roger Lecomte, Daniel Ricquier, Frédéric Picard, Denis Richard. (2017). Loss of UCP2 impairs cold-induced non-shivering thermogenesis by promoting a shift toward glucose utilization in brown adipose tissue. Biochimie. DOI
• O'Farrell, Alice C., Evans, Rhys, Silvola, Johanna M. U., Miller, Ian S., Conroy, Emer, Hector, Suzanne, Cary, Maurice, Murray, David W., Jarzabek, Monika A., Maratha, Ashwini, Alamanou, Marina, Udupi, Girish Mallya, Shiels, Liam, Pallaud, Celine, Saraste, Antti, Liljenback, Heidi, Jauhiainen, Matti, Oikonen, Vesa, Ducret, Axel, ... Byrne, Annette T. (2017). A Novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Approach to Monitor Cardiac Metabolic Pathway Remodeling in Response to Sunitinib Malate. Plos One. DOI
• Paquette, M., Beaudoin, S., Phoenix, S., Fafard-Couture, L., Turcotte, E. E., Guerin, B., Lecomte, R., Leyton, J. V. (2017). A Successive Triple PET Tracer Approach to Characterize ER and HER2 Status In Vivo in a Breast Cancer Mouse Xenograft Model. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Selivanova, Svetlana V., Lavallee, Eric, Senta, Helena, Caouette, Lyne, McEwan, Alexander J. B., Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger, Turcotte, Eric. (2017). Clinical Trial with Sodium Tc-99m-Pertechnetate Produced by a Medium-Energy Cyclotron: Biodistribution and Safety Assessment in Patients with Abnormal Thyroid Function. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Paquette, M., Lavallee, E., Phoenix, S., Senta, H., Guerin, B., van Lier, J. E., Lecomte, R., Turcotte, E. E. (2017). Combined FDG and 4FMFES PET Imaging in ER plus Breast Cancer Patients for Improved Diagnostic and Prognostic Value. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Paquette, M., Phoenix, S., Rousseau, J. A., Sarrhini, O., Lecomte, R. (2017). Cross-Species Physiological Assessment of Brain Estrogen Receptor Expression Using 4FMFES PET Imaging. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Yatsyna, A., Sarrhini, O., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R., Selivanova, S. V. (2017). Effect of Selective Endothelin B Receptor Agonist IRL-1620 on [F-18]FDG Uptake in a Mouse Model of Breast Cancer. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Paquette, Michel, Beaudoin, Simon, Phoenix, Serge, Fafard-Couture, Laurent, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Turcotte, Aric, Leyton, Jeff. (2017). F-18-FDG, F-18-4FMFES, and Zr-89-trastuzumab PET imaging protocol in a preclinical breast cancer model. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Mansour, Nematallah, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Ait-Mohand, Samia, Paquette, Michel, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte. (2017). Impact of dianionic and dicationic linkers on tumor uptake and biodistribution of [Cu-64]Cu/NOTA peptide-based gastrin-releasing peptide receptors antagonists. Journal of Labelled Compounds. DOI
• Gaudin, Emilie, Thibaudeau, Christian, Arpin, Louis, Leroux, Jean-Daniel, Beaudoin, Jean-Franois, Cadorette, Jules, Njejimana, Larissa, Samson, Arnaud, Bouchard, Jonathan, Koua, Konin, Fontaine, jean, Lecomte, Roger. (2017). Initial results of a truly pixelated APD-based PET scanner for high-resolution preclinical imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Selivanova, Svetlana, Berthelette, Eric, Thibault, Paul, Caouette, Lyne, Lecomte, Roger, Andersson, Jan, Thomas, Brent, Gagnon, Katie, Sader, Jayden, Jenei, Eric, Manigoda, Aleksandar, Zyuzin, Alexander. (2017). Large-scale GMP-ready production of technetium-99m with cyclotron. Journal of Labelled Compounds.
• Loignon-Houle, Francis, Pepin, Catherine M., Charlebois, Serge A., Lecomte, Roger. (2017). Reflectivity quenching of ESR multilayer polymer film reflector in optically bonded scintillator arrays. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Loignon-Houle, Francis, Pepin, Catherine M., Lecomte, Roger. (2017). Scintillation and Spectroscopic Characteristics of 90% Lu LGSO With Variable Decay Times. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. DOI
• Loignon-Houle, Francis, Bergeron, Melanie, Pepin, Catherine M., Charlebois, Serge A., Lecomte, Roger. (2017). Simulation of scintillation light output in LYSO scintillators through a full factorial design. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Paquette, M., Lavallee, E., Phoenix, S., Senta, H., van Lier, J. E., Lecomte, R., Guerin, B., Turcotte, E. E. (2017). Successful Diagnosis of a CT-Negative, Bone Scintigraphy-Negative and FDG-PET-Negative Metastatic Recurrence Case Using ER-Targeting 4FMFES-PET. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Paquette, Michel, Vilera-Perez, Luis-Guillermo, Beaudoin, Simon, Ekindi-Ndongo, Nadia, Boudreaut, Pierre-Luc, Bonin, Marc-Andre, Battista, Marie-Claude, Bentourkia, M'hamed, Lopez, Angel F., Lecomte, Roger, Marsault, Eric, Guerin, Brigitte, Sabbagh, Robert, Leyton, Jeffrey V. (2017). Targeting IL-5Rα with antibody-conjugates reveals a strategy for imaging and therapy for invasive bladder cancer. OncoImmunology. DOI
• Arguin, Guillaume, Bourzac, Jean-Francois, Placet, Morgane, Molle, Caroline M., Paquette, Michel, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Rousseau, Jacques A., Lecomte, Roger, Plourde, Melanie, Gendron, Fernand-Pierre. (2017). The loss of P2X7 receptor expression leads to increase intestinal glucose transit and hepatic steatosis. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Oukaira, Aziz, Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger, Lakhssassi, Ahmed. (2017). Thermal Cooling System Development for LabPET II Scanners by Forced Convection Flow. IEEE 12TH INTERNATIONAL NEW CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (NEWCAS). DOI
• O'Farrell, A. C., Evans, R., Silvola, J. M. U., Miller, I. S., Conroy, E., Hector, S., Cary, M., Murray, D., Jarzabek, M. A., Maratha, A., Alamanou, M., Udupi, Mallya G., Shiels, L., Pallaud, C., Saraste, A., Liljenback, H., Jauhiainen, M., Oikonen, V, Ducret, A., ... Byrne, A. T. (2016). Cardiac Metabolic Pathway Remodelling in Response to Sunitinib Malate: Potential Role for Positron Emission Tomography in the Cardio-Oncology Setting. Irish Journal of Medical Science.
• Paquette, Michel, Beaudoin, Simon, Fafard-Couture, Laurent, Vilera-Perez, Luis-Guillermo, Ekindi-Ndongo, Nadia, Lopez, Angel, Lecomte, Roger, Sabbagh, Robert, Guerin, Brigitte, Leyton, Jeff. (2016). ChAcNLS-A14, a novel antibody-conjugate PET tracer for targeting human IL-5R alpha-positive muscle invasive bladder cancer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Charest, Jonathan, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Bergeron, Melanie, Cadorette, Jules, Arpin, Louis, Lecomte, Roger, Brunet, Charles-Antoine, Fontaine, Rejean. (2016). Impacts of Intelligent Automated Quality Control on a Small Animal APD-Based Digital PET Scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, Roger, Arpin, Louis, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Bergeron, Melanie, Bouchard, Jonathan, Bouziri, Haithem, Cadorette, Jules, Gaudin, Emilie, Jurgensen, Nadia, Koua, Konin Calliste, Trepanier, Pierre-Yves Lauzier, Leroux, Jean-Daniel, Loignon-Houle, Francis, Njejimana, Larissa, Paille, Maxime, Paulin, Caroline, Pepin, Catherine, Pratte, Jean-Francois, Samson, Arnaud, ... Fontaine, Rejean. (2016). LabPET II Pixelated APD-Based PET Scanner for High-Resolution Preclinical Imaging. Medical Physics. DOI
• Labbe, Sebastien M., Caron, Alexandre, Chechi, Kanta, Laplante, Mathieu, Lecomte, Roger, Richard, Denis. (2016). Metabolic activity of brown, "beige," and white adipose tissues in response to chronic adrenergic stimulation in male mice. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Beaudoin, Simon, Fafard-Couture, Laurent, Lopez, Angel, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Leyton, Jeff. (2016). Novel 64Cu-labeled antibody-conjugates designed to evade the endosomal-lysosomal pathway for increased intracellular radio-accumulation in target IL-5R alpha-positive muscle invasive bladder cancer cells. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Paquette, Michel, Lavall, Aric, Phoenix, Serge, Senta, Helena, Guerin, Brigitte, van Lier, Johan, Lecomte, Roger, Turcotte, Aric. (2016). Ongoing Phase II Trial Comparing 4FMFES and FES Estrogen-Receptor PET Tracers in Breast Cancer Patients: an Update. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Noll, Christophe, Labbe, Sebastien M., Pinard, Sandra, Shum, Michael, Bilodeau, Lyne, Chouinard, Lucie, Phoenix, Serge, Lecomte, Roger, Carpentier, Andre C., Gallo-Payet, Nicole. (2016). Postprandial fatty acid uptake and adipocyte remodeling in angiotensin type 2 receptor-deficient mice fed a high-fat/high-fructose diet. Adipocyte. DOI
• Convert, Laurence, Lebel, Rejean, Gascon, Suzanne, Fontaine, Rejean, Pratte, Jean-Francois, Charette, Paul, Aimez, Vincent, Lecomte, Roger. (2016). Real-Time Microfluidic Blood-Counting System for PET and SPECT Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Labbe, Sebastien M., Mouchiroud, Mathilde, Caron, Alexandre, Secco, Blandine, Freinkman, Elizaveta, Lamoureux, Guillaume, Gelinas, Yves, Lecomte, Roger, Bosse, Yohan, Chimin, Patricia, Festuccia, William T., Richard, Denis, Laplante, Mathieu. (2016). mTORC1 is Required for Brown Adipose Tissue Recruitment and Metabolic Adaptation to Cold. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Paté Boubacar, Otman Sarrhini, Roger Lecomte, Johan E. van Lier, M’hamed Bentourkia. (2015). A real-time follow-up of photodynamic therapy during PET imaging. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. DOI
• Charest, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., Brunet, C.-A., Fontaine, R. (2015). Automatic Channel Fault Detection and Diagnosis System for a Small Animal APD-Based Digital PET Scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Gascon, Suzanne, Croteau, Etienne, Sarrhini, Otman, Tremblay, Sebastien, Benoit-Biancamano, Marie-Odile, Turcotte, Eric, Lecomte, Roger. (2015). Cardiac PET imaging of perfusion, metabolism and function in a mouse model of cardiotoxicity induced by doxorubicin chemotherapy. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Selivanova, Svetlana, Lavallee, Eric, Senta, Helena, Caouette, Lyne, Zyuzin, Alexander, Guerin, Brigitte, Turcotte, Eric, Lecomte, Roger. (2015). Cyclotron-produced 99mTc: From bench to bedside and beyond. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.
• (2015). Improved LabPET Detectors Using Lu1.8Gd0.2SiO5:Ce (LGSO) Scintillator Blocks. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Labbé, S.M., Caron, A., Bakan, I., Laplante, M., Carpentier, A.C., Lecomte, R., Richard, D. (2015). In vivo measurement of energy substrate contribution to cold-induced brown adipose tissue thermogenesis. FASEB Journal. DOI
• Selivanova, S. V., Lavallee, E., Sarrihni, O., Guerin, B., Turcotte, E., Lecomte, R. (2015). Investigation of Image Quality with Sodium Pertechnetate Tc-99m Produced by Cyclotron. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Bergeron, M., Thibaudeau, C., Cadorette, J., Tétrault, M.-A., Pepin, C.M., Clerk-Lamalice, J., Loignon-Houle, F., Davies, M., Dautet, H., Deschamps, P., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2015). LabPET II, an APD-based detector module with PET and Counting CT imaging capabilities. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Laprise-Pelletier, M., Bouchoucha, M., Lagueux, J., Chevallier, P., Lecomte, R., Gossuin, Y., Kleitz, F., Fortin, M.-A. (2015). Metal chelate grafting at the surface of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs): Physico-chemical and biomedical imaging assessment. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. DOI
• Yao, R., Deng, X., Wei, Q., Dai, T., Ma, T., Lecomte, R. (2015). Multipinhole SPECT helical scan parameters and imaging volume. Medical Physics. DOI
• (2015). Optimization of the reference region method for dual pharmacokinetic modeling using Gd-DTPA/MRI and 18F-FDG/PET. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. DOI
• Selivanova, Svetlana, Lavallee, Eric, Senta, Helena, Caouette, Lyne, Zyuzin, Alexander, McEwan, Alexander, van Lier, Johan, Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger, Turcotte, Eric. (2015). Phase I clinical trial using sodium pertechnetate <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc produced by medium-energy cyclotron. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Selivanova, S.V., Lavallée, E., Senta, H., Caouette, L., Sader, J.A., Van Lier, E.J., Zyuzin, A., Van Lier, J.E., Guérin, B., Turcotte, E., Lecomte, R. (2015). Radioisotopic purity of sodium pertechnetate 99mTc produced with a medium-energy cyclotron: Implications for internal radiation dose, image quality, and release specifications. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• (2015). Real time artificial neural network FPGA implementation for triple coincidences recovery in PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Roussel, E., Drolet, M.-C., Walsh-Wilkinson, E., Dhahri, W., Lachance, D., Gascon, S., Sarrhini, O., Rousseau, J.A., Lecomte, R., Couet, J., Arsenault, M. (2015). Transcriptional Changes Associated with Long-Term Left Ventricle Volume Overload in Rats: Impact on Enzymes Related to Myocardial Energy Metabolism. BioMed Research International. DOI
• (2015). [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography of the cat brain: A feasibility study to investigate osteoarthritis-associated pain. Veterinary Journal. DOI
• Di, Lu-Zhao, Couture, Vanessa, Leblanc, Elisabeth, Alinejad, Yasaman, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Berthod, Francois, Faucheux, Nathalie, Balg, Frederic, Grenier, Guillaume. (2014). A Longitudinal Low Dose mu CT Analysis of Bone Healing in Mice: A Pilot Study. Advances in Orthopedics. DOI
• Croteau, E., Poulin, E., Tremblay, S., Dumulon-Perreault, V., Sarrhini, O., Lepage, M., Lecomte, R. (2014). Arterial input function sampling without surgery in rats for positron emission tomography molecular imaging. Nuclear Medicine Communications. DOI
• Charest, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., Brunet, C.-A., Fontaine, R. (2014). Automatic channel fault detection on a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Selivanova, S. V., Lavallee, E., Senta, H., Sader, J., van Lier, E. J., Zyuzin, A., van Lier, J. E., Guerin, B., Lecomte, R., Turcotte, E. (2014). Clinical quality sodium pertechnetate Tc-99m is reached with cyclotron at 24 MeV. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Cadorette, J., Bergeron, M., Thibaudeau, C., Beaudoin, J.-F., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2014). Comment on "Temperature dependence of APD-based PET scanners" [Med. Phys. 40(9) 092506 (13pp.) (2013)]. Medical Physics. DOI
• Blanchette, Marie, Gascon, Suzanne, Tremblay, Sebastien, Tremblay, Luc, Guerin, Brigitte, Lepage, Martin, Lecomte, Roger, Fortin, David. (2014). DOES OSMOTIC BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER DISRUPTION ALLOWS EFFLUX PUMP SUBSTRATES DELIVERY TO THE TUMOR AND CNS?. Neuro-Oncology. DOI
• Cauchon, N., Hasséssian, H.M., Turcotte, E., Lecomte, R., Van Lier, J.E. (2014). Deciphering PDT-induced inflammatory responses using real-time FDG-PET in a mouse tumour model. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. DOI
• Lachance, D., Dhahri, W., Drolet, M.-C., Roussel, É, Gascon, S., Sarrhini, O., Rousseau, J.A., Lecomte, R., Arsenault, M., Couet, J. (2014). Endurance training or beta-blockade can partially block the energy metabolism remodeling taking place in experimental chronic left ventricle volume overload. BMC cardiovascular disorders. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Tétrault, M.-A., Beaudoin, J.-F., Leroux, J.-D., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2014). Imaging performance of LabPET APD-based digital PET scanners for pre-clinical research. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Selivanova, Svetlana V., Lavallee, Eric, Sader, Jayden, van Lier, Erik J., Zyuzin, Alexander, van Lier, Johan E., Turcotte, Eric, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte. (2014). Isotopic purity of <SUP>100</SUP>Mo target is paramount for cyclotron production of clinical quality <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.
• Corbeil Therrien, A., Berube, B.-L., Charlebois, S.A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R., Pratte, J.-F. (2014). Modeling of single photon avalanche diode array detectors for PET applications. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Selivanova, Svetlana V., van Lier, Johan E., Turcotte, Eric, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Lebeda, Ondrej, van Lier, Erik J., Zyuzin, Alexander. (2014). Radiation dose from cyclotron-produced <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc-radiopharmaceuticals based on their experimentally determined isotopic composition. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Michaud, J., Tetrault, M., Beaudoin, J., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J., Brunet, C., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2014). Sensitivity Increase Through a Neural Network Method for LOR Recovery of ICS Triple Coincidences in High-Resolution Pixelated- Detectors PET Scanners. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• (2014). [11C]-Acetoacetate PET imaging: A potential early marker for cardiac heart failure. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• (2013). 68Ga/DOTA- and 64Cu/NOTA-phthalocyanine conjugates as fluorescent/PET bimodal imaging probes. Bioconjugate Chemistry. DOI
• Selivanova, Svetlana V., Matei, Lidia, Sader, Jayden, van Lier, Erik J., Zyuzin, Alexander, van lier, Johan E., Turcotte, Eric, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte. (2013). <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc Production using a medium-energy cyclotron starting from <SUP>100</SUP>Mo targets. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.
• Roy, Maggie, Nugent, Scott, Tremblay, Sebastien, Descoteaux, Maxime, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Tremblay, Luc, Lecomte, Roger, Cunnane, Stephen C. (2013). A Dual Tracer PET-MRI Protocol for the Quantitative Measure of Regional Brain Energy Substrates Uptake in the Rat. Journal of Visualized Experiments. DOI
• Arsenault, M., Zendaoui, A., Roussel, É., Drolet, M.-C., Dhahri, W., Grenier, A., Gascon, S., Sarrhini, O., Rousseau, J.A., Lecomte, R., Couet, J. (2013). Angiotensin ii-converting enzyme inhibition improves survival, ventricular remodeling, and myocardial energetics in experimental aortic regurgitation. Circulation: Heart Failure. DOI
• (2013). Assessment of the novel estrogen receptor PET Tracer 4-Fluoro-11β- methoxy-16α-[18F]fluoroestradiol (4FMFES) by PET imaging in a breast cancer murine model. Molecular Imaging and Biology. DOI
• (2013). Conversion of arterial input functions for dual pharmacokinetic modeling using Gd-DTPA/MRI and 18F-FDG/PET. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. DOI
• Selivanova, S. V., Sader, J., van Lier, E. J., Zyuzin, A., van Lier, J. E., Lecomte, R., Guerin, B. (2013). Cyclotron Produced Mo-99 as a Source of Tc-99m via Generator-Like Automated Extraction Procedure. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Zyuzin, Alexander, van Lier, Erik, Sader, Jayden, Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger, Toussaint, Martin, Turcotte, Eric, Abrams, Doug, McEwan, Alexander, Wilson, John, McQuarrie, Steve, Jakeway, Steve. (2013). Cyclotron production of <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc in Canada. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society.
• Njejimana, L., Tetrault, M.-A., Arpin, L., Burghgraeve, A., Maille, P., Lavoie, J.-C., Paulin, C., Koua, K.C., Bouziri, H., Panier, S., Attouch, M.W.B., Abidi, M., Cadorette, J., Pratte, J.-F., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2013). Design of a real-time fpga-based data acquisition architecture for the labpet ii: An apd-based scanner dedicated to small animal pet imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Thibaudeau, C., Leroux, J.-D., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2013). Fully 3D iterative CT reconstruction using polar coordinates. Medical Physics. DOI
• Chouinard, J.A., Vermette, P., Lecomte, R. (2013). In situ positron emission tomography monitoring of endothelial cells embedded in perfused fibrin gels. Process Biochemistry. DOI
• Yao, R., Deng, X., Beaudoin, J.-F., Ma, T., Cadorette, J., Cao, Z., Lecomte, R. (2013). Initial evaluation of LabPET/SPECT dual modality animal imaging system. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Doré-Savard, L., Barrière, D.A., Midavaine, É., Bélanger, D., Beaudet, N., Tremblay, L., Beaudoin, J.-F., Turcotte, E.E., Lecomte, R., Lepage, M., Sarret, P. (2013). Mammary cancer bone metastasis follow-up using multimodal small-animal MR and PET imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Deng, X., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Naaman, C., Lecomte, R., Yao, R. (2013). PET-based geometrical calibration of a pinhole SPECT add-on for an animal PET scanner. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Labbe, Sebastien M., Baraboi, Elena-Dana, Grenier-Larouche, Thomas, Roy, Marie-Claude, Noll, Christophe, Li, Wei, Bouchard, Cynthia, Lecomte, Roger, Carpentier, AndrE C., Richard, Denis. (2013). Weight Loss Associated to Bariatric Surgery Was Not Coupled to an Enhanced Activity of Brown Adipose Tissue Capacity and Metabolism in Rodents. Diabetes.
• Convert, L., Baril, F.G., Boisselle, V., Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R., Charette, P.G., Aimez, V. (2012). Blood compatible microfluidic system for pharmacokinetic studies in small animals. Lab on a Chip - Miniaturisation for Chemistry and Biology. DOI
• Fournier, P., Dumulon-Perreault, V., Ait-Mohand, S., Langlois, R., Bénard, F., Lecomte, R., Guérin, B. (2012). Comparative study of ⁶⁴Cu/NOTA-[D-Tyr ⁶,βAla ¹¹, Thi ¹³,Nle ¹⁴]BBN(6-14) monomer and dimers for prostate cancer PET imaging. Dermatology and Therapy. DOI
• Fournier, Patrick, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Ait-Mohand, Samia, Langlois, Rejean, Benard, Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte. (2012). Comparative study of GRPR-targeting monomer and dimers for prostate cancer PET imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Turcotte, Eric, Paquette, Michel, Lavallee, Eric, Langlois, Rejean, Dubreuil, Stephanie, Senta, Helena, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte, Benard, Francois, Van Lier, Johan. (2012). Comparison of 4FMFES-PET with FES-PET in a phase II trial to detect estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: Preliminary results. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Bessi, V.L., Labbé, S.M., Huynh, D.N., Ménard, L., Jossart, C., Febbraio, M., Guérin, B., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R., Carpentier, A.C., Ong, H., Marleau, S. (2012). EP 80317, a selective CD36 ligand, shows cardioprotective effects against post-ischaemic myocardial damage in mice. Cardiovascular Research. DOI
• Harbeby, E., Pifferi, F., Jouin, M., Pélerin, H., Tremblay, S., Lecomte, R., Cunnane, S.C., Huertas, A., Alessandri, J.-M., Guesnet, P. (2012). N-3 fatty acids, neuronal activity and energy metabolism in the brain. OCL - Oleagineux Corps Gras Lipides. DOI
• Harbeby, Emilie, Pifferi, Fabien, Jouin, Melanie, Pelerin, Helene, Tremblay, Sebastien, Lecomte, Roger, Cunnane, Stephen C., Huertas, Alain, Alessandri, Jean-Marc, Guesnet, Philippe. (2012). N-3 fatty acids, neuronal activity and energy metabolism in the brain. OCL - Oilseeds and Fats, Crops and Lipids. DOI
• Goertzen, A.L., Bao, Q., Bergeron, M., Blankemeyer, E., Blinder, S., Cañadas, M., Chatziioannou, A.F., Dinelle, K., Elhami, E., Jans, H.-S., Lage, E., Lecomte, R., Sossi, V., Surti, S., Tai, Y.-C., Vaquero, J.J., Vicente, E., Williams, D.A., Laforest, R. (2012). NEMA NU 4-2008 comparison of preclinical PET imaging systems. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Fournier, P., Dumulon-Perreault, V., Ait-Mohand, S., Tremblay, S., Bénard, F., Lecomte, R., Guérin, B. (2012). Novel radiolabeled peptides for breast and prostate tumor PET imaging: ⁶⁴Cu/and ⁶⁸Ga/NOTA-PEG-[D-Tyr⁶,βAla ¹¹,Thi¹³,Nle¹⁴]BBN(6-14). Bioconjugate Chemistry. DOI
• Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Croteau, Etienne, Ait-Mohand, Samia, Ouellet, Rene, Rousseau, Jacques, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Gagnon, Jean-Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Turcotte, Eric, Guerin, Brigitte. (2012). PET imaging of pulmonary embolism with 18F-Fluorogas and 64Cu-MAA. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Convert, L., Chabot, V., Zermatten, P.-J., Hamel Jr., R., Cloarec, J.-P., Lecomte, R., Aimez, V., Charette, P.G. (2012). Passivation of KMPR microfluidic channels with bovine serum albumin (BSA) for improved hemocompatibility characterized with metal-clad waveguides. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical. DOI
• Chouinard, J.A., Rousseau, J.A., Beaudoin, J.-F., Vermette, P., Lecomte, R. (2012). Positron emission tomography detection of human endothelial cell and fibroblast monolayers: Effect of pretreament and cell density on ¹⁸FDG uptake. Vascular Cell. DOI
• Cauchon, N., Turcotte, E., Lecomte, R., Hasséssian, H.M., Lier, J.E.V. (2012). Predicting efficacy of photodynamic therapy by real-time FDG-PET in a mouse tumour model. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences. DOI
• Paquette, M., Tremblay, S., Bénard, F., Lecomte, R. (2012). Quantitative hormone therapy follow-up in an ER+/ERαKD mouse tumor model using FDG and [¹¹C]-methionine PET imaging. EJNMMI Research. DOI
• Yao, R., Lecomte, R., Crawford, E.S. (2012). Small-animal PET: What is it, and why do we need it?. Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. DOI
• McEwan, Alexander, McQuarrie, Steven, Abrams, Douglas, Gagnon, Katherine, Wilson, John, Turcotte, Eric, Guerin, Brigitte, Lecomte, Roger. (2012). Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) pertechnetate (TcO4) imaging with cyclotron produced Tc-99m compared with generator Tc-99m. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Yousefzadeh, H.C., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2012). The effect of photon statistics and pulse shaping on the performance of the wiener filter crystal identification algorithm applied to LabPET phoswich detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Roy, M., Nugent, S., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Tremblay, S., Courchesne-Loyer, A., Beaudoin, J.-F., Tremblay, L., Descoteaux, M., Lecomte, R., Cunnane, S.C. (2012). The ketogenic diet increases brain glucose and ketone uptake in aged rats: A dual tracer PET and volumetric MRI study. Brain Research. DOI
• Thibaudeau, C., Bérard, P., Tétrault, M.-A., Leroux, J.-D., Bergeron, M., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2012). Toward truly combined PET/CT imaging using PET detectors and photon counting CT with iterative reconstruction implementing physical detector response. Medical Physics. DOI
• Croteau, E., Gascon, S., Bentourkia, M., Langlois, R., Rousseau, J.A., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F. (2012). [ ¹¹C]Acetate rest-stress protocol to assess myocardial perfusion and oxygen consumption reserve in a model of congestive heart failure in rats. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Paquette, M., Ouellet, R., Archambault, M., Croteau, É., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F. (2012). [ ¹⁸F]-fluoroestradiol quantitative PET imaging to differentiate ER+ and ERα-knockdown breast tumors in mice. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Guerin, Brigitte, Fournier, Patrick, Veronique, Dumulon-Perreault, Ait-Mohand, Samia, Lecomte, Roger, Francois, Benard. (2011). 64Cu/NOTA-[D-Tyr(6),beta Ala(11),Thi(13),Nle(14)]BBN(6-14) monomers and dimers for breast and prostate cancer PET imaging. Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals.
• Croteau, Etienne, Poulin, Eric, Tremblay, Sebastien, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Gascon, Suzanne, Benard, Francois, Lepage, Martin, Lecomte, Roger. (2011). A non-invasive arterial blood sampling method to obtain input function in rat. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Dubois, J., Martin, Y., Chouinard, J. A., Lecomte, R., Vermette, P. (2011). Bioreactors for Tissue Engineering: Design, Applications, and Monitoring. Comprehensive Biotechnology, Vol 2: Engineering Fundamentals of Biotechnology, Edition.
• Zyuzin, Alexander, van Lier, Erik J., Gagnon, Katie, Abrams, Doug, Wilson, John, McQuarrie, Steve, Lecomte, Roger, van Lier, Johan E., Guerin, Brigitte. (2011). Commercializing cyclotron production of <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc in Canada: the Canadian ACS-ES approach. Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals.
• Fournier, Patrick, Dumulon-Pereault, Veronique, Ait-Mohand, Sarnia, Benard, Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Guerin, Brigitte. (2011). Comparative study of Cu-64/NOTA-[D-Tyr(6), beta Ala(11), Thi(13), Nle(14)]BBN(6-14) monomer and dimer for breast cancer PET imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Convert, L., Girard-Baril, F., Renaudin, A., Grondin, E., Jaouad, A., Aimez, V., Charette, P., Lecomte, R. (2011). High efficiency microfluidic beta detector for pharmacokinetic studies in small animals. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Rousseau, Jacques, Bolduc, Virginie, Thorin, Eric, Lecomte, Roger. (2011). Measurement of basal cerebral perfusion and metabolic activity in LDLr-/-;hApoB(+/+) mice. The FASEB Journal.
• Pifferi, F., Tremblay, S., Croteau, E., Fortier, M., Tremblay-Mercier, J., Lecomte, R., Cunnane, S.C. (2011). Mild experimental ketosis increases brain uptake of ¹¹C-acetoacetate and ¹⁸ F - fluorodeoxyglucose: A dual-tracer pet imaging study in rats. Nutritional Neuroscience. DOI
• Smith, K., Malatesti, N., Cauchon, N., Hunting, D., Lecomte, R., Van Lier, J.E., Greenman, J., Boyle, R.W. (2011). Mono- and tri-cationic porphyrin-monoclonal antibody conjugates: Photodynamic activity and mechanism of action. Immunology. DOI
• Fournier, Patrick, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Ait-Mohand, Samia, Lecomte, Roger, Benard, Francois, Guerin, Brigitte. (2011). Novel radiolabeled peptides for breast and prostate tumor PET imaging: Cu-64/ and Ga-68/NOTA-PEG-BBN(6-14). Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Deng, X., Ma, T., Lecomte, R., Yao, R. (2011). Optimization and calibration of slat position for a SPECT with slit-slat collimator and pixelated detector crystals. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Ranyuk, E.R., Cauchon, N., Ali, H., Lecomte, R., Guérin, B., Van Lier, J.E. (2011). PET imaging using ⁶⁴Cu-labeled sulfophthalocyanines: Synthesis and biodistribution. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters. DOI
• Paquette, Michel, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Langlois, Rejean, Turcotte, Eric, van Lier, Johan, Benard, Francois, Lecomte, Roger. (2011). Quantitative murine breast tumor PET imaging using 4-fluoro-11β-methoxy-16α[<SUP>18</SUP>F]-fluoroestradiol, a novel estrogen receptor tracer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Gascon, Suzanne, Croteau, Etienne, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Tremblay, Sebastien, Turcotte, Eric, Lecomte, Roger. (2011). Simultaneous follow-up of tumor response to chemotherapy and cardiotoxicity in mice: A feasibility study. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Arpin, L., Bergeron, M., Tétrault, M.-A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2010). A sub-nanosecond time interval detection system using FPGA embedded I/O resources. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Michaud, J.-B., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2010). ARMAX-RLS parameter-estimation crystal identification in phoswich PET detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Ménard, S.L., Croteau, E., Sarrhini, O., Gélinas, R., Brassard, P., Ouellet, R., Bentourkia, M., Van Lier, J.E., Des Rosiers, C., Lecomte, R., Carpentier, A.C. (2010). Abnormal in vivo myocardial energy substrate uptake in diet-induced type 2 diabetic cardiomyopathy in rats. American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. DOI
• Shimizu, S., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2010). Assessment of Lu<inf>1.8</inf>Gd<inf>0.2</inf> SiO<inf>5</inf> (LGSO) scintillators with APD readout for PET/SPECT/CT detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Doré-Savard, L., Otis, V., Bellevill, K., Lemire, M., Archambaul, M., Tremblay, L., Beaudoin, J.-F., Beaudet, N., Lecomte, R., Lepage, M., Gendron, L., Sarret, P. (2010). Behavioral, medical imaging and histopathological features of a new rat model of bone cancer pain. PLoS ONE. DOI
• Croteau, Etienne, Tremblay, Sebastien, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Cunnane, Stephen, Langlois, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger, Benard, Francois. (2010). C-11-acetoacetate as a PET cardiac imaging agent of cardiotoxicity. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Shimizu, S., Pepin, C.M., Bergeron, M., Lecomte, R. (2010). Characteristics of Lu<inf>1.8</inf> Gd<inf>0.2</inf> SiO<inf>5</inf>:Ce (LGSO) for APD-based PET detector. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Guerin, Brigitte, Zyuzin, Alexander, Tremblay, Sebastien, van Lier, Erik J., Rodrigue, Serge, Rousseau, Jacques A., Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Lecomte, Roger, van Lier, Johan E. (2010). Comparing cyclotron-produced Tc-99m with generator-produced Tc-99m. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Guerin, Brigitte, Tremblay, Sebastien, Rodrigue, Serge, Rousseau, Jacques A., Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Lecomte, Roger, van Lier, Johan E., Zyuzin, Alexander, van Lier, Erik J. (2010). Cyclotron Production of <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc: An Approach to the Medical Isotope Crisis. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Guerin, B., Zyuzin, A., van Lier, E. J., Lecomte, R., van Lier, J. E. (2010). Cyclotron Production of Technetium-99m. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
• Guérin, B., Tremblay, S., Rodrigue, S., Rousseau, J.A., Dumulon-Perreault, V., Lecomte, R., van Lier, J.E., Zyuzin, A., van Lier, E.J. (2010). Cyclotron production of 99mTc: an approach to the medical isotope crisis. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine.
• Pepin, C.M., Bergeron, M., Thibaudeau, C., Bureau-Oxton, C., Shimizu, S., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2010). Digital identification of fast scintillators in phoswich APD-based detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Guerin, Brigitte, Zyuzin, Alexander, Tremblay, Sebastien, van Lier, Erik, Rodrigue, Serge, Rousseau, Jacques, Dumulon-Perreault, Veronique, Lecomte, Roger, van Lier, Johannes. (2010). Direct production of <SUP>99m</SUP>Tc with a medical cyclotron?. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Paquette, Michel, Tremblay, Sebastien, Lecomte, Roger, Benard, Francois. (2010). ER plus /ER alpha-KD breast cancer model to follow hormone therapy using C-11-methionine PET in mice. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Tétrault, M.-A., Bergeron, M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2010). Firmware upgrade for the data acquisition system of the LabPET small animal PET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Croteau, E., Lavallée, É., Labbe, S.M., Hubert, L., Pifferi, F., Rousseau, J.A., Cunnane, S.C., Carpentier, A.C., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F. (2010). Image-derived input function in dynamic human PET/CT: Methodology and validation with ¹¹C-acetate and ¹⁸F- fluorothioheptadecanoic acid in muscle and ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose in brain. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. DOI
• Tétrault, M.-A., Oliver, J.F., Bergeron, M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2010). Real time coincidence detection engine for high count rate timestamp based PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Menard, Sebastien L., Croteau, Etienne, Gelinas, Roselle, Ouellet, Rene, Van Lier, Johan E., Des Rosiers, Christine, Lecomte, Roger, Carpentier, Andre C. (2009). <i>In Vivo</i> Myocardial Energy Substrate Metabolism and Function in a Rat Model of Type 2 Diabetes Cardiomyopathy. Diabetes.
• Bergeron, M., Pepin, C.M., Arpin, L., Leroux, J.-D., Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). A handy time alignment probe for timing calibration of PET scanners. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Yousefzadeh, H., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). A pulse simulator for crystal identification validation of phoswich detectors used in positron emission tomography. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference.
• Rechka, S., Fontaine, R., Rafecas, M., Lecomte, R. (2009). Development and validation of a GATE simulation model for the LabPET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Bérard, P., Bergeron, M., Pepin, C.M., Cadorette, J., Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Fontaine, R., Dautet, H., Davies, M., Deschamps, P., Lecomte, R. (2009). Development of a 64-channel APD detector module with individual pixel readout for submillimetre spatial resolution in PET. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Bergeron, Melanie, Cadorette, Jules, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Selivanov, Vitali, Lepage, Martin D., Robert, Ghislain, Norenberg, Jeffrey P., Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger. (2009). Imaging Performance of the LabPET™ APD-based Digital PET Scanner. Proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC).
• Ménard, S.L., Ci, X., Frisch, F., Normand-Lauzière, F., Cadorette, J., Ouellet, R., Lier, J.E., Bénard, F., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R., Carpentier, A.C. (2009). Mechanism of reduced myocardial glucose utilization during acute hypertriglyceridemia in rats. Molecular Imaging and Biology. DOI
• Lecomte, R. (2009). Novel detector technology for clinical PET. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Tremblay, S., Pifferi, F., Rousseau, J., Lecomte, R., Cunnane, S. (2009). PET study of ¹¹C-acetoacetate kinetics in rat brain during dietary treatments affecting ketosis. American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Lepage, M.D., Robert, G., Selivanov, V., Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Norenberg, J.P., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). Performance evaluation of the LabPET APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Dumouchel, T., Selivanov, V.V., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., DeKemp, R.A. (2009). Reconstructed image resolution of the LabPET small animal scanner measured using simulated partial volume effects. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Tetrault, M.-A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). Signal deconvolution concept combined with cubic spline interpolation to improve timing with phoswich PET Detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Bélanger, F., Viscogliosi, N., Semmaoui, H., Tétrault, M.-A., Michaud, J.-B., Pepin, C., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2009). The hardware and signal processing architecture of LabPET^TM, a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Leroux, J.-D., Martin, J.-P., Rouleau, D., Pepin, C.M., Cadorette, J., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). Time determination of BGO-APD detectors by digital signal processing for positron emission tomography. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Leroux, J.-D., Tétrault, M.-A., Rouleau, D., Pepin, C.M., Michaud, J.-B., Cadorette, J., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). Time discrimination techniques using artificial neural networks for positron emission tomography. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Byrne, A.T., O'Connor, A.E., Hall, M., Murtagh, J., O'Neill, K., Curran, K.M., Mongrain, K., Rousseau, J.A., Lecomte, R., McGee, S., Callanan, J.J., O'Shea, D.F., Gallagher, W.M. (2009). Vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy with BF2-chelated Tetraaryl-Azadipyrromethene agents: A multi-modality molecular imaging approach to therapeutic assessment. British Journal of Cancer. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). A cross-correlation method for crystal identification in APD-based phoswich detectors used in small animal PET scanner. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Yousefzadeh, H.C., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Pepin, C.M., Bérard, P., Bergeron, M., Semmaoui, H., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). A fast crystal identification algorithm applied to the LabPET™ phoswich detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Soucy-Faulkner, A., Rousseau, J.A., Langlois, R., Berard, V., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F., Van Lier, J.E. (2008). Copper-64 labeled sulfophthalocyanines for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in tumor-bearing rats. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines.
• (2008). Copper-64 labeled sulfophthalocyanines for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in tumor-bearing rats. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Viscogliosi, N., Bélanger, F., Michaud, J.-B., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). Crystal identification based on recursive-least-squares and least-mean-squares auto-regressive models for small animal pet. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Riendeau, J., Bérard, P., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Lemieux, F., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). High rate photon counting CT using parallel digital PET electronics. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Viscogliosi, N., Riendeau, J., Bérard, P., Tétrault, M.-A., Lefebvre, R., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). Real time implementation of a wiener filter based crystal identification algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Riendeau, J., Bélanger, F., Michaud, J.-B., Semmaoui, H., Bérard, P., Lemieux, F., Arpin, L., Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Robert, G., Lepage, M.D., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). System architecture of the LabPET small animal PET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Lemieux, F., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Bergeron, M., Riendeau, J., Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2008). Timing improvement by low-pass filtering and linear interpolation for the LabPET scanner. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Viscogliosi, N., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2008). Wavelets-based crystal identification of phoswich detectors for small-animal PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Authier, S., Tremblay, S., Dumulon, V., Dubuc, C., Ouellet, R., Lecomte, R., Cunnane, S.C., Bénard, F. (2008). [¹¹C] acetoacetate utilization by breast and prostate tumors: A PET and biodistribution study in mice. Molecular Imaging and Biology. DOI
• Convert, L., Morin-Brassard, G., Cadorette, J., Rouleau, D., Croteau, E., Archambault, M., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2007). A microvolumetric β blood counter for pharmacokinetic PET studies in small animals. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Convert, L., Morin-Brassard, G., Cadorette, J., Archambault, M., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (2007). A new tool for molecular imaging: The microvolumetric β blood counter. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. DOI
• Aliaga, A., Rousseau, J.A., Cadorette, J., Croteau, É., Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F. (2007). A small animal positron emission tomography study of the effect of chemotherapy and hormonal therapy on the uptake of 2-Deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-D-glucose in murine models of breast cancer. Molecular Imaging and Biology. DOI
• Valton, S., Bérard, P., Riendeau, J., Thibaudeau, C., Lecomte, R., Sappey-Marinier, D., Peyrin, F. (2007). Comparison of analytical and algebraic 2D tomographic reconstruction approaches for irregularly sampled microCT data. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference.
• Fontaine, R, Viscogliosi, N., Semmaoui, H., Bélanger, F, Lemieux, F, Tétrault, M-A, Michaud, J-B, Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2007). Digital signal processing applied to crystal identification in Positron Emission Tomography dedicated to small animals. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Riendeau, Joel, Berard, Philippe, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Lemieux, Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2007). High rate photon counting CT using parallel digital PET electronics. Ieee-Npss Real-Time Conference, Vols 1 and 2.
• Woody, C., Vaska, P., Schlyer, D., Pratte, J.-F., Junnarkar, S., Park, S.-J., Stoll, S., Purschke, M., Southekal, S., Kriplani, A., Krishnamoorthy, S., Maramraju, S., Lee, D., Schiffer, W., Dewey, S., Neill, J., Kandasamy, A., O'Connor, P., Radeka, V., ... Lecomte, R. (2007). Initial studies using the RatCAP conscious animal PET tomograph. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Bérard, P., Riendeau, J., Pepin, C.M., Rouleau, D., Cadorette, J., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2007). Investigation of the LabPET™ detector and electronics for photon-counting CT imaging. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Cauchon, N., Langlois, R., Rousseau, J.A., Tessier, G., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., Hunting, D.J., Pavan, R.A., Zeisler, S.K., Van Lier, J.E. (2007). PET imaging of apoptosis with ⁶⁴Cu-labeled streptavidin following pretargeting of phosphatidylserine with biotinylated annexin-V. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. DOI
• Menard, Sebastien L., Ci, Xiuli, Lavoie, Francois, Frisch, Fred-erique, Normand-Lauziere, Francois, Rousseau, Jacques A., Cadorette, Jules, Vanlier, Johan E., Benard, Francois, Bentourkia, M'hamed, Lecomte, Roger, Carpentier, Andre. (2007). Regulation of myocardial glucose utilization byIntravascular lipolysis of triglycerides (IVTL) in vivo in rats. Diabetes.
• David Mathieu, Roger LECOMTE, Ana Maria Tsanaclis, Annie Larouche, David Fortin. (2007). Standardization and detailed characterization of the syngeneic Fischer/F98 glioma model. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. DOI
• Mathieu, D., Lecomte, R., Tsanaclis, A.M., Larouche, A., Fortin, D. (2007). Standardization and detailed characterization of the syngeneic Fischer/F98 glioma model. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences.
• Fontaine, Rejean, Lemieux, Francois, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Bergeron, Melanie, Riendeau, Joel, Berard, Philippe, Cadorette, Jules, Lecomte, Roger. (2007). Timing improvement by low-pass filtering and linear interpolation for the LabPET (TM) scanner. Ieee-Npss Real-Time Conference, Vols 1 and 2.
• Berard, Veronique, Rousseau, Jacques A., Cadorette, Jules, Hubert, Laurent, Bentourkia, M'hamed, van Lier, Johan E., Lecomte, Roger. (2006). Dynamic imaging of transient metabolic processes by small-animal PET for the evaluation of photo sensitizers in photodynamic therapy of cancer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Bérard, V., Rousseau, J.A., Cadorette, J., Hubert, L., Bentourkia, M., Van Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R. (2006). Dynamic imaging of transient metabolic processes by small-animal PET for the evaluation of photosensitizers in photodynamic therapy of cancer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Chagnon, F., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R., Lessard, M., Lesur, O. (2006). Endotoxin-induced heart dysfunction in rats: Assessment of myocardial perfusion and permeability and the role of fluid resuscitation. Critical Care Medicine. DOI
• Lecomte, R., deKemp, R. A., Klein, R., Cadorette, J., Lepage, M. D., Robert, G., Selivanov, V., Belanger, F., Semmaoui, H., Tetrault, M. A., Viscogliosi, N., Bergeron, M., Lemieux, F., Lemonde, M. A., Fontaine, R. (2006). LabPETtm:: A second-generation APD-based digital scanner for high-resolution small animal PET imaging. Medical Physics. DOI
• Selivanov, V.V., Lepage, M.D., Lecomte, R. (2006). List-mode image reconstruction for real-time PET imaging. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. DOI
• Bérard, V., Lecomte, R., Van Lier, J.E. (2006). Positron emission tomography imaging of tumor response after photodynamic therapy. Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology.
• (2006). Positron emission tomography imaging of tumor response after photodynamic therapy. Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology: Official Organ of the International Society for Environmental Toxicology and Cancer. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Tétrault, M.-A., Bélanger, F., Viscogliosi, N., Himmich, R., Michaud, J.-B., Robert, S., Leroux, J.-D., Semmaoui, H., Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2006). Real time digital signal processing implementation for an APD-based PET scanner with phoswich detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Bentourkia, M'hamed, Tremblay, Sebastien, Rousseau, Jacques, Lecomte, Roger, Cunnane, Stephen. (2006). Study of <SUP>11</SUP>C-Acetoacetate Uptake by Rat Heart and Brain Using Small Animal PET Imaging. Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS). DOI
• Ci, X., Frisch, F., Lavoie, F., Germain, P., Lecomte, R., Lier, J.E., Bénard, F., Carpentier, A.C. (2006). The effect of insulin on the intracellular distribution of 14(R,S)-[¹⁸F]Fluoro-6-thia-heptadecanoic acid in rats. Molecular Imaging and Biology. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Bélanger, F., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J.-D., Martin, J.-P., Michaud, J.-B., Pratte, J.-F., Robert, S., Lecomte, R. (2005). Architecture of a dual-modality, high-resolution, fully digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner for small animal imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Bérard, P., Pepin, C.M., Rouleau, D., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2005). CT acquisition using PET detectors and electronics. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Lepage, Martin D., Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Belanger, Francois, Cadorette, Jules, Pepin, Catherine Michelle, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2005). Real time coincidence detection system for digital high resolution APD-based animal PET scanner. Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS).
• Aliaga, A., Rousseau, J.A., Ouellette, R., Cadorette, J., Van Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F. (2004). Breast cancer models to study the expression of estrogen receptors with small animal PET imaging. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Croteau, É., Gauthier, M.-È., Archambault, M., Aliaga, A., Rousseau, J., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J.-D., Lepage, M.D., Bénard, F., Bentourkia, M. (2004). Cardiac PET imaging of blood flow, metabolism, and function in normal and infarcted rats. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Pratte, J.-F., Robert, S., De Geronimo, G., O'Connor, P., Stoll, S., Pepin, C.M., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2004). Design and performance of 0.18-μm CMOS charge preamplifiers for APD-based PET scanners. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Pepin, C.M., Bérard, P., Perrot, A.-L., Pépin, C., Houde, D., Lecomte, R., Melcher, C.L., Dautet, H. (2004). Properties of LYSO and recent LSO scintillators for phoswich PET detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Croteau, E., Bénard, F., Bentourkia, M., Rousseau, J., Paquette, M., Lecomte, R. (2004). Quantitative myocardial perfusion and coronary reserve in rats with ¹³N-ammonia and small animal PET: Impact of anesthesia and pharmacologic stress agents. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Croteau, E, Benard, F, Bentourkia, M, Rousseau, J, Paquette, M, Lecomte, R. (2004). Quantitative myocardial perfusion and coronary reserve in rats with N-13-ammonia and small animal PET: Impact of anesthesia and pharmacologic stress agents. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Vaska, P., Woody, C.L., Schlyer, D.J., Shokouhi, S., Stoll, S.P., Pratte, J.-F., O'Connor, P., Junnarkar, S.S., Rescia, S., Yu, B., Porschke, M., Kandasamy, A., Villanueva, A., Kriplani, A., Radeka, V., Volkow, N., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2004). RatCAP: Miniaturized head-mounted PET for conscious rodent brain imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Boucher, L., Rodrigue, S., Lecomte, R., Bénard, F. (2004). Respiratory gating for 3-dimensional PET of the thorax: Feasibility and initial results. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Boucher, L, Rodrigue, S, Lecomte, R, Benard, F. (2004). Respiratory gating for 3-dimensional PET of the thorax: Feasibility and initial results. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lecomte, R. (2004). Technology challenges in small animal PET imaging. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Aliaga, A, Rousseau, J, van Lier, JE, Lecomte, R, Beenard, F. (2003). Animal models to study the modulation of estrogen receptors in vivo with small animal PET imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Croteau, E, Benard, F, Bentourkia, M, Rousseau, J, Paquette, M, Lecomte, R. (2003). Myocardial blood flow measurements with 13N-ammonia in rats using a Small Animal PET scanner at Rest and Stress: Impact of anesthesia. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Prevost, S, Lavallee, E, Croteau, E, Hubert, L, Rijo, J, Lecomte, R, Benard, F. (2003). Partial volume effects on SUV measurements: Impact of acquisition methods, reconstruction modes and image filtering for 2 dedicated PET scanners. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Croteau, E., Bénard, F., Cadorette, J., Gauthier, M.-E., Aliaga, A., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (2003). Quantitative gated PET for the assessment of left ventricular function in small animals. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Croteau, E, Bénard, F, Cadorette, J, Gauthier, ME, Aliaga, A, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (2003). Quantitative gated PET for the assessment of left ventricular function in small animals. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2002). Assessment of Quick-Stick 5870 high refractive index thermoplastic coupling compound. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Collier, TL, Lecomte, R, McCarthy, TJ, Meikle, S, Ruth, TJ, Scopinaro, F, Signore, A, VanBrocklin, H, Van de Wiele, C, Waterhouse, RN. (2002). Assessment of cancer-associated biomarkers by positron emission tomography: Advances and challenges. Disease Markers. DOI
• Collier, T.L., Lecomte, R., McCarthy, T.J., Meikle, S., Ruth, T.J., Scopinaro, F., Signore, A., VanBrocklin, H., Van De Wiele, C., Waterhouse, R.N. (2002). Assessment of cancer-associated biomarkers by positron emission tomography: Advances and challenges. Disease Markers.
• Bentourkia, M., Croteau, E., Langlois, R., Aliaga, A., Cadorette, J., Bénard, F., Lesur, O., Lecomte, R. (2002). Cardiac studies in rats with ¹¹C-acetate and PET: A comparison with ¹³N-ammonia. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lepage, M, Cadorette, J, Selivanov, V, Tétrault, MA, Lecomte, R. (2002). Design and implementation of a real-time tomographic reconstructor for PET imaging. Medical Physics.
• Pratte, J.-F., Pepin, C.M., Rouleau, D., Ménard, O., Mouine, J., Lecomte, R. (2002). Design of a fast-shaping amplifier for PET/CT APD detectors with depth-of-interaction. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lepage, MD, Leroux, JD, Selivanov, V, Cadorette, J, Lecomte, R. (2002). Design of a prototype real-time image reconstruction system for PET imaging. Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS). DOI
• Croteau, E, Bénard, F, Gauthier, ME, Cadorette, J, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R, Coutu, M, St-Jacques, P, Iacampo, S, Leclerc, G, Guy, LG. (2002). FDG-PET follow-up of LV function and metabolism in infarcted rats treated with experimental intramyocardial revascularisation therapy. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Pepin, C, Perrot, AL, Lepage, M, Cadorette, J, Croteau, E, Gauthier, ME, Aliaga, A, Archambault, M, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (2002). PET detector developments and imaging for small animal research. Medical Physics.
• Croteau, E, Bénard, F, Gauthier, ME, Aliaga, A, Cadorette, J, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (2002). Quantitative gated PET for the assessment of left ventricular function in small animals. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Selivanov, VV, Lepage, MD, Lecomte, R. (2002). Real-time PET image reconstruction based on regularized pseudo-inverse of the system matrix. Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS). DOI
• Selivanov, V.V., Lapointe, D., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (2001). Cross-validation stopping rule for ML-EM reconstruction of dynamic PET series: Effect on image quality and quantitative accuracy. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Léger, G, Lepage, MD, Leroux, JD, Selivanov, V, Cadorette, J, Tremblay, M, Lecomte, R. (2001). Design of a prototype real-time image reconstruction system for PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Selivanov, V.V., Lecomte, R. (2001). Fast PET image reconstruction based on SVD decomposition of the system matrix. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lepage, MD, Cadorette, J, Léger, G, Leroux, JD, Otis, M, Lecomte, R. (2001). High-speed PC-based list-mode data acquisition system for the Sherbrooke animal PET scanner. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Boucher, L, Rodrigue, S, Lecomte, R, Benard, F. (2001). Impact of respiratory motion on cardiac quantification with PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lecomte, R., Pepin, C.M., Lepage, M.D., Pratte, J.-F., Dautet, H., Binkley, D.M. (2001). Performance analysis of phoswich/APD detectors and low-noise CMOS preamplifiers for high-resolution PET systems. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Selivanov, V, Leger, G, Lecomte, R. (2001). Real-time image reconstruction for emission tomography. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lecomte, R, Bentourkia, M, Lapointe, D, Van Lier, JE. (2001). Real-time monitoring of tumor metabolism during photodynamic therapy by steady-state FDG-PET imaging. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Boucher, L, Rodrigue, S, Lecomte, R, Benard, F. (2001). Respiratory gated 3D PET of the thorax: Feasibility and initial results. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• (2000). Detector response models for statistical iterative image reconstruction in high resolution PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Bentourkia, M, Lapointe, D, Selivanov, V, Lecomte, R. (2000). Determination of blood and tissue time activity curves from projections with FADS in RAT-PET studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Bentourkia, M, Lapointe, D, Selivanov, V, Lecomte, R. (2000). Estimation of kinetic parameters from projections using spectral analysis in rat-PET studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Thompson, C.J., Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J. (2000). Feasibility of using beta-gamma coincidence for 3D PET attenuation correction. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• Thompson, CJ, Lecomte, R, Cadorette, J. (2000). Feasibility of using beta-gamma coincidence for 3D PET attenuation correction. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Saoudi, A., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2000). Study of light collection in multi-crystal detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Saoudi, A., Lecomte, R. (1999). A novel apd-based detector module for multi-modality pet/spect/ct scanners. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1999). Energy PET. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
• Lapointe, D, Brasseur, N, Cadorette, J, La Madeleine, C, Rodrigue, S, van Lier, JE, Lecomte, R. (1999). High-Resolution PET imaging for in vivo monitoring of tumor response after photodynamic therapy in mice. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lapointe, D., Brasseur, N., Cadorette, J., La Madeleine, C., Rodrigue, S., Van Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R. (1999). High-resolution PET imaging for in vivo monitoring of tumor response after photodynamic therapy in mice. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lapointe, D, Bentourkia, M, Cadorette, J, Rodrigue, S, Ouellet, R, Benard, F, van Lier, JE, Lecomte, R. (1999). High-resolution cardiac PET in rats PET center, CRC/CUSE, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Saoudi, A., Pepin, C.M., Dion, F., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R., Andreaco, M., Casey, M., Nutt, R., Dautet, H. (1999). Investigation of depth-of-interaction by pulse shape discrimination in multicrystal detectors read out by avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Pepin, C., Rouleau, D., Dautet, H., McIntyre, R.J., McSween, D., Webb, P. (1999). Radiation detection measurements with a new "Buried Junction" silicon avalanche photodiode. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. DOI
• Saoudi, A., Pepin, C., Pépin, C., Houde, D., Lecomte, R. (1999). Scintillation light emission studies of LSO scintillators. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• (1999). Scintillation light emission studies of LSO scintillators. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lapointe, D., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Rouleau, D., Lecomte, R. (1998). A microvolumetric blood counter/sampler for metabolic PET studies in small animals. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• (1998). A microvolumetric blood counter/sampler for metabolic PET studies in small animals. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• (1998). Investigation of GSO, LSO and YSO scintillators using reverse avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, R. (1998). Investigation of gso, lso and yso scintillators using reverse avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• Lapointe, D, Brasseur, N, Cadorette, J, La Madeleine, C, Rodrigue, S, van Lier, JE, Lecomte, R. (1998). PET investigation of early tumor, response to photodynamic therapy in a murine model. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Saoudi, A, Rouleau, D, Lecomte, R, Andreaco, M, Casey, M, Nutt, R, Dautet, H. (1998). Performance studies of depth encoding multicrystal detectors using avalanche photodiodes. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lapointe, D, Cadorette, J, Rodrigue, S, Lecomte, R. (1997). Microvolumetric blood sampler for small animal PET studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Yao, R., Msaki, P., Lecomte, R. (1997). Pre-processing variance reducing techniques in multispectral positron emission tomography. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Yao, R, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (1997). Study of multispectral frame-by-frame convolution scatter correction in high resolution PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Yao, R., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1997). Study of multispectral frame-by-frame convolution scatter correction in high resolution pet. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• Yao, R., Msaki, P., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1996). Effects of energy space smoothing and projection space normalization on multispectral PET image quality. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Lapointe, D., Rouleau, D., Bentourkia, M., Yao, R., Msaki, P. (1996). Initial results from the sherbrooke avalanche photodiode positron tomograph. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Bentourkia, M, Msaki, P, Cadorette, J, Lecomte, R. (1996). Nonstationary scatter subtraction-restoration in high-resolution PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lecomte, R, Cadorette, J, Rodrigue, S, Rouleau, D, Yao, R. (1996). Performance of the Sherbrooke avalanche photodiode PET scanner: A new high resolution device for animal research. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Msaki, P, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (1996). Scatter degradation and correction models for high-resolution PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Msaki, P., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1996). Scatter degradation and correction models for high-resolution PET. Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine.
• BENTOURKIA, M, MSAKI, P, CADORETTE, J, LECOMTE, R. (1995). ASSESSMENT OF SCATTER COMPONENTS IN HIGH-RESOLUTION PET - CORRECTION BY NONSTATIONARY CONVOLUTION SUBTRACTION. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Bentourkia, M., Msaki, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., Links, J.M. (1995). Assessment of scatter components in high-resolution PET: Correction by nonstationary convolution subtraction. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Bentourkia, M., Msaki, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (1995). Energy Dependence of Scatter Components in Multispectral PET Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Msaki, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (1995). Object and Detector Scatter Function Dependence on Energy and Position in High Resolution PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Richard, P., Rodrigue, S., Rouleau, D. (1994). Design and Engineering Aspects of a High Resolution Positron Tomograph for Small Animal Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• MARRIOTT, CJ, CADORETTE, JE, LECOMTE, R, SCASNAR, V, ROUSSEAU, J, VANLIER, JE. (1994). HIGH-RESOLUTION PET IMAGING AND QUANTITATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL BIODISTRIBUTIONS IN A SMALL ANIMAL USING AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE DETECTORS. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Marriott, C.J., Cadorette, J.E., Lecomte, R., Scasnar, V., Rousseau, J., Van Lier, J.E., Hichwa, R. (1994). High-resolution PET imaging and quantitation of pharmaceutical biodistributions in a small animal using avalanche photodiode detectors. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Héon, M., Bentourkia, M., Msaki, P., Rouleau, D., Richard, P. (1993). A pet camera simulator with multispectral data acquisition capabilities. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Héon, M., Carrier, C., Cadorette, J., Richard, P., Rouleau, D., Rodrigue, S., Lecomte, R. (1993). A stationary sampling scheme for multilayer positron tomographs. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. DOI
• BENTOURKIA, M, MSAKI, P, CADORETTE, J, HEON, M, LECOMTE, R. (1993). ASSESSMENT OF SCATTER COMPONENTS IN A VERY HIGH-RESOLUTION PET SCANNER. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• MARRIOTT, C, CADORETTE, J, LECOMTE, R, SCASNAR, V, ROUSSEAU, J, VANLIER, JE. (1993). HIGH-RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY WITH SOLID-STATE SCINTILLATION DETECTORS - AN INVIVO DEMONSTRATION. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Msaki, P., Bentourkia, M., Cadorette, J., Heon, M., Lecomte, R. (1993). Normalization of multispectral data in positron emission tomography. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Lecomte, R. (1993). Tuning of avalanche photodiode pet camera. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, R. (1992). Analytical study of performance in a 3D PET scanner. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Karuta, B., Lecomte, R. (1992). Effect of Detector Weighting Functions on the Point Spread Function of High-Resolution PET Tomographs: A Simulation Study. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Martel, C., Cadorette, J. (1991). Study of the Resolution Performance of an Array of Discrete Detectors with Independent Readouts for Positron Emission Tomography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. DOI
• Mazé, A., Lecomte, R. (1990). Analytical study of the effect of collimation on the performance of PET cameras in 3-D imaging. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Carrier, C., Lecomte, R. (1990). Effect of geometrical modifications and crystal defects on light collection in ideal rectangular parallelepipedic BGO scintillators. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Jouan, A., Hèon, M., Rouleau, D., Gauthier, G. (1990). High resolution positron emission tomography with a prototype camera based on solid state Scintillation detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Carrier, C., Lecomte, R. (1990). Recent results in scintillation detection with silicon avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Carrier, C., Lecomte, R. (1990). Theoretical modelling of light transport in rectangular parallelepipedic scintillators. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A. DOI
• Carrier, C., Lecomte, R. (1990). Timing performance of scintillators read out by silicon avalanche photodiodes. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Martel, C., Carrier, C. (1989). Status of BGO-avalanche photodiode detectors for spectroscopic and timing measurements. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A. DOI
• Carrier, C., Lecomte, R. (1989). Trapping of fluorescent light in cylindrical scintillators. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A. DOI
• Carrier, C., Martel, C., Schmitt, D., Lecomte, R. (1988). Design of a high resolution positron emission tomograph using solid state scintillation detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Schmitt, D., Karuta, B., Carrier, C., Lecomte, R. (1988). Fast Point Spread Function Computation from Aperture Functions in High-Resolution Positron Emission Tomography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. DOI
• Schmitt, D., Lecomte, R., Lapointe, M., Martel, C., Carrier, C., Karuta, B., Duval, F. (1987). Ultra-low noise charge sensitive preamplifier for scintillation detection with avalanche photodiodes in PET applications. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• LECOMTE, R. (1986). A NEW DUAL CRYSTAL DEPTH SENSITIVE DETECTOR FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION PET CAMERAS. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Thompson, C.J., Roney, J.M., Lecomte, R., Schmitt, D., Lupton, L.R. (1986). Dependence of the coincidence aperture function of narrow BGO crystals on crystal shape and light encoding schemes. Physics in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• SCHMITT, D, LECOMTE, R, LEBEL, E. (1986). WEDGE-SHAPED SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS FOR POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
• Lightstone, A.W., McIntyre, R.J., Lecomte, R., Schmitt, D. (1985). BISMUTH GERMANATE-AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE MODULE DESIGNED FOR USE IN HIGH RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
• Lecomte, R., Schmitt, D., Lightstone, A.W., McIntyre, R.J. (1985). Performance characteristics of BGO-Silicon avalanche photodiode detectors for PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• (1984). Scintillation detection with large-area reach-through avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Schmitt, D., Lamoureux, G. (1984). Geometry study of a high resolution pet detection system using small detectors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. DOI
• DELBIANCO, W, KAJRYS, G, KIM, J, KUNDU, S, LANDSBERGER, S, LECOMTE, R, MONARO, S. (1984). THE GIANT-DIPOLE RESONANCE OF MASS-15 NUCLEI AND THE C-12(HE-3,GAMMA-0)O-15 AND B-11(ALPHA,GAMMA-0)N-15 REACTIONS. Canadian Journal of Physics.
• Monaro, S., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Desaulniers, G., P'an, A. (1983). Asbestos pollution levels in river water measured by proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) techniques. Environmental Pollution. Series B, Chemical and Physical. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S., Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Ménard, H.-A. (1983). Elemental contamination in vacutainer tubes used for blood collection. International Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Kajrys, G., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Monaro, S. (1983). Level structure of Kr79 and Kr81. Physical Review C. DOI
• Kajrys, G., Lecomte, R., Landsberger, S., Monaro, S. (1983). Medium spin states in Ru99 and Ru101. Physical Review C. DOI
• Aufreiter, S., Van Loon, J.C., Lecomte, R., Monaro, S., Jervis, R.E., Landsberger, S. (1983). Trace elements in wet atmospheric deposition: Application and comparison of PIXE, INAA, and graphite-furnace AAS techniques. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry. DOI
• Landsberger, S., Jervis, R.E., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). Determination of sulphur in snow by proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) method. Environmental Pollution. Series B, Chemical and Physical. DOI
• Jervis, R.E., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). Determination of trace pollutants in urban snow using PIXE techniques. Nuclear Instruments and Methods. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Kajrys, G., Landsberger, S., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). Erratum: Shape coexistence and shape transitions in even-A Ge nuclei (Physical Review C (1982) 26, 3). Physical Review C. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Landsberger, S., Monaro, S. (1982). Evaluation of trace-element sensitivities in PIXE analysis of low-temperature-ashed serum samples. The International Journal Of Applied Radiation And Isotopes. DOI
• Kajrys, G., Irshad, M., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). High spin states and band structure in Rh99 and Rh101. Physical Review C. DOI
• Kajrys, G., Irshad, M., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). High spin states and band structure in Tc97. Physical Review C. DOI
• Kajrys, G., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). Level structure of Tc97 investigated via the Mo97(p,nγ) reaction. Physical Review C. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Kajrys, G., Landsberger, S., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1982). Shape coexistence and shape transitions in the even-A Ge nuclei. Physical Review C. DOI
• Jervis, R.E., Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1981). DETERMINATION OF TRACE POLLUTANTS IN URBAN SNOW USING PIXE TECHNIQUES. Nuclear Instruments &amp; Methods in Physics Research.
• Desaulniers, G., P'An, A., Trudeau, M., Lecomte, R., Landsberger, S., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1981). On the use of PIXE as methodology for measuring asbestos pollution in river-water. The International Journal Of Applied Radiation And Isotopes. DOI
• KAJRYS, G, DELBIANCO, W, KIM, J, LANDSBERGER, S, LECOMTE, R, MONARO, S, PARADIS, P. (1981). THE B-11(D,GAMMA-O)C-13 REACTION IN THE REGION OF THE GIANT-DIPOLE RESONANCE. Canadian Journal of Physics. DOI
• LANDSBERGER, S, LECOMTE, R, PARADIS, P. (1981). TRACE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF PANAX GINSENG BY PROTON-INDUCED X-RAYS. Radiochemical and Radioanalytical Letters.
• Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S., Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Menard, H.-A. (1981). Trace element analysis in rheumatoid arthritis under chrysotheraphy. Nuclear Instruments and Methods. DOI
• Monaro, S., Lecomte, R. (1981). Trace element detection by the particle induced X-ray emission process. International Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Monaro, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Landsberger, S., Desaulniers, G. (1980). ASBESTOS POLLUTION ASSESSMENT IN RIVER WATER BY PIXE METHODS. Nuclear instruments and methods. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Irshad, M., Landsberger, S., Kajrys, G., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1980). Coulomb-excitation studies of Ge70, Ge72, Ge74, and Ge76. Physical Review C. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Irshad, M., Landsberger, S., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1980). Evidence of a spherical to prolate shape transition in the germanium nuclei. Physical Review C. DOI
• Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1980). Low-lying levels in ⁹⁷Tc. Nuclear Physics, Section A. DOI
• Landsberger, S., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1980). Quadrupole moments of the first excited states of Ru96, Ru98, Ru100, Ru102, and Ru104. Physical Review C. DOI
• Desaulniers, G., P'an, A., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Landsberger, S., Monaro, S. (1979). On the use of the PIXE method to determine river water pollution in asbestos mining areas. The International Journal Of Applied Radiation And Isotopes. DOI
• Paradis, P., Lecomte, R., Landsberger, S., Monaro, S. (1979). Static quadrupole moment of the first 2+ state in Mo98. Physical Review C. DOI
• BARRETTE, M, LAMOUREUX, G, LECOMTE, R, PARADIS, P, MONARO, S, MENARD, HA. (1979). TRACE-ELEMENT DETERMINATION IN SERUM BY PROTON-INDUCED X-RAY-EMISSION. The Journal of Rheumatology.
• Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S., Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Ménard, H.A. (1979). Trace element contamination in blood-collecting devices. International Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Lecomte, R. (1979). Trace element determination in serum by proton-induced X-ray emission. Journal of Rheumatology.
• Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S., Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Ménard, H.A. (1978). Automatic data acquisition and on-line analysis of trace element concentration in serum samples. Nuclear Instruments and Methods. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Landsberger, S., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1978). Static quadrupole moment of the first excited state of Se74. Physical Review C. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Barrette, J., Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Monaro, S. (1977). Measurement of the static quadrupole moments of the first 2⁺ states in ⁷⁶Se, ⁷⁸Se, ⁸⁰Se and ⁸²Se. Nuclear Physics, Section A. DOI
• Paradis, P., Lamoureux, G., Lecomte, R., Monaro, S. (1976). Measurement of the static quadrupole moments of the first 2+ states in Mo94, Mo96, Mo98, and Mo100. Physical Review C. DOI
• Barrette, M., Lamoureux, G., Lebel, E., Lecomte, R., Paradis, P., Monaro, S. (1976). Trace element analysis of freeze-dried blood serum by proton and alpha-induced X-rays. Nuclear Instruments and Methods. DOI

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• Samson, Arnaud, Gaudin, Emilie, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2018). Using Docker, an Industry Standard Technology to Run GATE Simulation on Multiple Platforms. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Proceedings (NSS/MIC).
• Toussaint, Maxime, Dussault, Jean-Pierre, Lecomte, Roger. (2016). Comparison of Two Motion Compensation Models: Adding Ordered Subset into the Mix. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Clerk-Lamalice, J., Bergeron, M., Thibaudeau, C., Lecomte, R. (2016). Effect of inter-crystal scatter events on coincidence detection in LabPET scanners. 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2014. DOI
• Njejimana, Larissa, Arpin, Louis, Thibaudeau, Christian, Jurgensen, Nadia, Bouziri, Haithem, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Paulin, Caroline, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2016). Firmware Architecture of the Data Acquisition System for the LabPET II Mouse Scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Samson, Arnaud, Bouchard, Jonathan, Gaudin, Emilie, Thibaudeau, Christian, Arpin, Louis, Paulin, Caroline, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2016). Preliminary Results of an Embedded Timing Probe for Calibrating PET Scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Toussaint, M., Dussault, J.-P., Lecomte, R. (2016). Revisiting motion compensation models in PET image reconstruction. Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. DOI
• Loignon-Houle, F., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2016). Scintillation characteristics of 90%Lu LGSO with different decay times. 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2014. DOI
• Jurgensen, Nadia, Arpin, Louis, Bouziri, Haithem, Njejimana, Larissa, Koua, Konin, Gaudin, Emilie, Pratte, Jean-Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2015). Initial Results for Automatic Calibration of the LabPET II Front-End Detector Module. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Charest, Jonathan, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Bergeron, Melanie, Cadorette, Jules, Arpin, Louis, Lecomte, Roger, Brunet, Charles-Antoine, Fontaine, Rejean. (2015). Initial Results of Applying Automatic Channel Fault Detection and Diagnosis on Small Animal APD-Based Digital PET Scanners. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Therrien, Audrey Corbeil, Parent, Samuel, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Gundacker, Stefan, Lecoq, Paul, Lecomte, Roger, Charlebois, Serge A., Fontaine, Rejean, Pratte, Jean-Francois. (2015). Optimization of Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array Detectors with a Custom Simulator. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Gaudin, Emilie, Arpin, Louis, Bouchard, Jonathan, Paille, Maxime, Bouziri, Haithem, Bergeron, Melanie, Pepin, Catherine M., Cadorette, Jules, Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger. (2015). Performance Characterization of a Dual-Threshold Time-over-Threshold APD-based Detector Front-End Module for PET Imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Loignon-Houle, Francis, Bergeron, Melanie, Pepin, Catherine M., Charlebois, Serge A., Lecomte, Roger. (2015). Simulation of Signal Losses in Highly Pixelated Scintillator Arrays Read Out by Discrete Photodetectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Traore, Mohamed Seydou, Thibaudeau, Christian, Koua, Konin, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Pepin, Catherine M., Cadorette, Jules, Pratte, Jean-Francois, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2015). System Architecture of a Fully Combined PET/CT Scanner using LabPET (TM) Electronics with an Upgraded Analog Front-end Optimized for PET and CT Counting Mode Operation. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Charest, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., Brunet, C.-A., Fontaine, R. (2014). Automatic channel fault detection and diagnosis system for a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner. 2014 19th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference, RT 2014 - Conference Records. DOI
• Yao, R., Cadorette, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Lecomte, R. (2013). Energy window optimization of PET detectors for SPECT imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Charest, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R., Brunet, C.-A., Fontaine, R. (2013). Preliminary results of an automatic channel fault detection system on a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Lebel, R., Zarifyussefian, N., Letendre-Jauniaux, M., Daigle, O., Ranyuk, E., Van Lier, J., Guérin, B., Lecomte, R., Massonneau, M., Ducharme, M.-E., Bérubé-Lauzière, Y. (2013). Ultra-high sensitivity detection of bimodal probes at ultra-low noise for combined fluorescence and positron emission tomography imaging. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. DOI
• Ben Attouch, M.W., Koua, K.M.-C., Panier, S., Arpin, L., Njejimana, L., Bouziri, H., Abidi, M., Paulin, C., Lecomte, R., Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R. (2012). A fully integrated pulse charge generator embedded in a 64-channel readout ASIC dedicated to a PET/CT detector module. International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems, and Applications. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Pepin, C.M., Clerk-Lamalice, J., Thibaudeau, C., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2012). An investigation of Lu <inf>1.8</inf>Gd <inf>0.2</inf>SiO <inf>5</inf>:Ce (LGSO) phoswich crystal identification by digital methods. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Thibaudeau, C., Leroux, J.-D., Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2012). Cylindrical and spherical ray-tracing for CT iterative reconstruction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Njejimana, L., Tetrault, M.-A., Arpin, L., Burghgraeve, A., Maille, P., Lavoie, J.-C., Paulin, C., Koua, K.C., Bouziri, H., Panier, S., Ben Attouch, M.W., Abidi, M., Pratte, J.-F., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2012). Design of a real-time FPgA-based DAQ architecture for the LabPET II, an APD-based scanner dedicated to small animal PET imaging. 2012 18th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference, RT 2012. DOI
• Arpin, L., Koua, K., Panier, S., Bouziri, H., Abidi, M., Ben Attouch, M.W., Paulin, C., Maillé, P., Geoffroy, C., Lecomte, R., Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R. (2012). Embedded real time digital signal processing unit for a 64-channel PET detector module. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Clerk-Lamalice, J., Bergeron, M., Thibaudeau, C., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2012). Evaluation of easily implementable inter-crystal scatter recovery schemes in high-resolution PET imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Yao, R., Beaudoin, J.-F., Deng, X., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2012). Imaging performance of a PET/SPECT dual modality animal system. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Thibaudeau, C., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Tétrault, M.-A., Davies, M., Dautet, H., Deschamps, P., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2012). LabPET II, an APD-based PET detector module with counting CT imaging capability. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Therrien, A.C., Bérubé, B.-L., Thibaudeau, C., Charlebois, S., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R., Pratte, J.-F. (2012). Modeling of single photon avalanche diode array detectors for PET applications. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Yao, R., Deng, X., Dai, T., Wei, Q., Beaudoin, J.-F., Naaman, C., Ma, T., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2012). Parameter optimization and effective imaging volume determination of helical scan for a pinhole animal SPECT. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Thibaudeau, C., Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2012). Polyenergetic CT sinogram generator. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Deng, X., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Naaman, C., Lecomte, R., Yao, R. (2012). Slit-slat collimator geometrical calibration for a PET/SPECT dual modality animal scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Deng, X., Beaudoin, J.-F., Cadorette, J., Ma, T., Lecomte, R., Yao, R. (2012). Slit-slat collimator geometrical calibration for a PET/SPECT dual modality animal scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bergeron, Melanie, Pepin, Catherine M., Clerk-Lamalice, Julien, Thibaudeau, Christian, Fontaine, Rejean, Lecomte, Roger. (2011). An Investigation of Lu1.8Gd0.2SiO5:Ce (LGSO) Phoswich Crystal Identification by Digital Methods. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Therrien, Audrey Corbeil, Berube, Benoit-Louis, Thibaudeau, Christian, Charlebois, Serge, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean, Pratte, Jean-Francois. (2011). Modeling of Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array Detectors for PET Applications. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Dedić, R., Allili, M., Lecomte, R. (2011). Unsupervised cardiac PET image segmentation. International Conference on Systems, Signals, and Image Processing.
• Lemieux, Francois, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2010). Calibration Process for Improving Crystal Identification Rate in the LabPET (TM) Phoswich Detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Lemieux, F., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2010). Calibration process for improving Crystal Identification rate in the LabPET^™ phoswich detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Guillette, N., Sarrhini, O., Lecomte, R., Bentourkia, M. (2010). Correction of partial volume effect in the projections in PET studies. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Ma, T., Deng, X., Lecomte, R., Yao, R. (2010). Derivation of the system matrix for an animal SPECT scanner with rotational collimator and stationary ring detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Yao, R., Deng, X., Ma, T., Cadorette, J., Cao, Z., Beaudoin, J.-F., Lecomte, R. (2010). Geometrical calibration for an animal PET converted SPECT. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bergeron, Melanie, Pepin, Catherine M., Cadorette, Jules, Beaudoin, Jean-Francois, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Davies, Murray, Dautet, Henri, Deschamps, Pierre, Ishibashi, Hiroyuki, Kurata, Yasushi, Lecomte, Roger. (2010). Improved LabPET Detectors using Lu1.8Gd0.2SiO5:Ce (LGSO) Scintillator Blocks. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Bergeron, M., Pepin, C.M., Cadorette, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Tetrault, M.-A., Davies, M., Dautet, H., Deschamps, P., Ishibashi, H., Kurata, Y., Lecomte, R. (2010). Improved LabPET detectors using Lu<inf>1.8</inf>Gd<inf>0.2</inf>SiO <inf>5</inf>:Ce (LGSO) scintillator blocks. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Convert, L., Girard-Baril, F., Boisselle, V., Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R., Aimez, V., Charette, P., Lecomte, R. (2010). Microfluidic beta and conversion electron radiation detector for preclinical pharmacokinetic studies with PET and SPECT radiotracers. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pepin, C.M., Dautet, H., Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Jacques-Bédard, X., Couture, M., Lecomte, R. (2010). New UV-enhanced, ultra-low noise silicon avalanche photodiode for radiation detection and medical imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Michaud, J.-B., Brunet, C.-A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2010). Results from neural networks for recovery of PET triple coincidences. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Arpin, L., Bergeron, M., Tétrault, M.-A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). A Sub-Nanosecond Edge Detection System using embedded FPGA fabrics. 2009 16th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference - Conference Record. DOI
• Yousefzadeh, H.C., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). A pulse simulator for crystal identification validation of phoswich detectors used in positron emission tomography. Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009. DOI
• Shimizu, Shigenori, Pepin, Catherine M., Bergeron, Melanie, Lecomte, Roger. (2009). Characteristics of Lu1.8Gd0.2SiO5:Ce (LGSO) for APD-based PET Detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Pepin, C.M., Bergeron, M., Shimizu, S., Viscogliosi, N., Thibaudeau, C., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). Fast high lutetium content scintillators as candidates for APD-based phoswich detectors with depth-of-interaction (DOI). IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Tétrault, M.-A., Bergeron, M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). Firmware upgrade for the data acquisition system of the LabPET™ small animal PET scanner. 2009 16th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference - Conference Record. DOI
• Shimizu, S., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2009). Investigation of Lu<inf>1.8</inf>Gd<inf>0.2</inf>SiO<inf>5</inf>:Ce (LGSO) scintillators with APD readout for medical imaging applications. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Thibaudeau, C., Berard, P., Tetrault, M. -A., Leroux, J. -D., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). Iterative CT Reconstruction using LabPET (TM) Detector Modules. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC).
• Rechka, S., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R., Rafecas, M. (2009). LabPET inter-crystal scatter study using GATE. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Yousefzadeh, H.C., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). LabPET pulse simulator for crystal identification validation of multi-layer phoswich detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Michaud, J.-B., Rechka, S., Brunet, C.-A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2009). Monte Carlo results from neural networks as an alternative to Compton photons LOR analysis. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Bureau-Oxton, C., Beaudoin, J.-F., Tétrault, M.-A., Leroux, J.-D., Lepage, M.D., Robert, G., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2009). Performance evaluation of the LabPET12, a large axial FOV APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Semmaoui, Hicham, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Lecomte, Roger, Fontaine, Rejean. (2009). Signal Deconvolution Concept Combined with Cubic Spline Interpolation to Improve Timing with Phoswich PET Detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Dedić, R., Allili, M., Lecomte, R., Benchakroun, A. (2008). Cardiac PET image segmentation by a deformable model with a force field driven speed term. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Shimizu, S., Pepin, C.M., Bergeron, M., Lecomte, R. (2008). Characteristics of LU<inf>1.8</inf>Gd<inf>0.2</inf>SiO<inf>5</inf>:Ce (LGSO) for APD-based PET detector. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Rechka, S., Fontaine, R., Rafecas, M., Lecomte, R. (2008). Development and validation of a GATE simulation model for the LabPET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Selivanov, V., Lepage, M.D., Robert, G., Norenberg, J.P., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2008). Imaging performance of the LabPET™ APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Thibaudeau, C., Bérard, P., Tétrault, M.-A., Leroux, J.-D., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2008). Iterative CT reconstruction using LabPETTM detector modules. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bérard, P., Bergeron, M., Pepin, C.M., Cadorette, J., Tetrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Fontaine, R., Dautet, H., Davies, M., Deschamps, P., Lecomte, R. (2008). LabPET II, a Novel 64-channel APD-based PET detector module with individual pixel readout achieving submillimetric spatial resolution. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Boubacar, P., Bentourkia, M., Sarrhini, O., Van Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R. (2008). PET kinetic modeling of rat tumors simultaneously treated with photodynamic therapy: A reference tissue model. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Convert, L., Aimez, V., Charette, P., Lecomte, R. (2008). Rapid prototyping of integrated microfluidic devices for combined radiation detection and plasma separation. 1st Microsystems and Nanoelectronics Research Conference, MNRC 2008 - Enabling Synergy and Accelerating Excellence in Graduate Student Research. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Tétrault, M.-A., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2008). Signal deconvolution concept combined with cubic spline interpolation to improve timing with phoswich PET detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Leroux, J.-D., Selivanov, V., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2007). Accelerated iterative image reconstruction methods based on block-circulant system matrix derived from a cylindrical image representation. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Lecomte, R. (2007). Biomedical imaging: SPECT and PET. AIP Conference Proceedings. DOI
• Valton, S., Bérard, P., Riendeau, J., Thibaudeau, C., Lecomte, R., Sappey-Marinier, D., Peyrin, F. (2007). Comparison of analytical and algebraic 2D tomographic reconstruction approaches for irregularly sampled microCT data. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings. DOI
• Park, S.-J., Southekal, S., Purschke, M., Junnarkar, S.S., Pratte, J.-F., Radeka, V., O'Connor, P., Stoll, S.P., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R., Woody, C.L., Schlyer, D.J., Vaska, P. (2007). Digital coincidence processing for the RatCAP conscious rat brain PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Leroux, J.-D., Selivanov, V., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2007). Fast 3D image reconstruction method based on svd decomposition of a block-circulant system matrix. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Leroux, J.-D., Thibaudeau, C., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). Fast, accurate and versatile Monte Carlo method for computing system matrix. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Riendeau, J., Bérard, P., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Lemieux, F., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). High rate photon counting CT using parallel digital PET electronics. 2007 15th IEEE-NPSS Real-Time Conference, RT. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Bérard, V., Boubacar, P., Van Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R. (2007). Kinetic modeling of FDG uptake in rat tumors during photodynamic therapy. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Boubacar, P., Bérard, V., Van Lier, J.E., Lecomte, R. (2007). Kinetic modeling of PET data and FDG continuous infusion in rat tumors simultaneously treated with PDT. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Vaska, P., Woody, C., Schlyer, D., Radeka, V., O'Connor, P., Park, S.-J., Pratte, J.-F., Junnarkar, S., Purschke, M., Southekal, S., Stoll, S., Schiffer, W., Lee, D., Neill, J., Wharton, D., Myers, N., Wiley, S., Kandasamy, A., Fried, J., ... Fontaine, R. (2007). Performance enhancement of the RatCAP awake rat brain PET system. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bergeron, M., Cadorette, J., Beaudoin, J.-F., Rousseau, J.A., Dumoulin, M., Lepage, M.D., Robert, G., Selivanov, V., Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Dumouchel, T., Thorn, S., DaSilva, J., DeKemp, R.A., Norenberg, J.P., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2007). Performance evaluation of the LabPET™ APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pepin, C.M., St-Pierre, C., Forgues, J.-C., Kurata, Y., Shimura, N., Usui, T., Takeyama, T., Ishibashi, H., Lecomte, R. (2007). Physical characterization of the LabPET™ LGSO and LYSO scintillators. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Viscogliosi, N., Riendeau, J., Bérard, P., Lefebvre, R., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). Real time implementation of a wiener filter based crystal identification algorithm for photon counting CT imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Michaud, J.-B., Leroux, J.-D., Viscogliosi, N., Riendeau, J., Semmaoui, H., Lemieux, F., Yousefzadeh, C., Tétrault, M.-A., Bérard, P., Bergeron, M., Pepin, C., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2007). Roadmap to fully-digital PET/CT scanners. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Michaud, J.-B., Brunet, C.-A., Rafecas, M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). Sensitivity in PET: Neural networks as an alternative to compton photons LOR analysis. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Tétrault, M.-A., Viscogliosi, N., Riendeau, J., Bélanger, F., Michaud, J.B., Semmaoui, H., Bérard, P., Lemieux, F., Arpin, L., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Robert, G., Lepage, M.D., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). System integration of the LabPET™ small animal PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pratte, J.-F., Junnarkar, S., Deptuch, G., Fried, J., O'Connor, P., Radeka, V., Vaska, P., Woody, C., Schlyer, D., Stoll, S., Maramraju, S.H., Krishnamoorthy, S., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). The RatCAP front-end ASIC. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Vaska, P., Woody, C., Schlyer, D., Pratte, J.-F., Junnarkar, S., Southekal, S., Stoll, S., Schulz, D., Schiffer, W., Alexoff, D., Lee, D., Patel, V., Purschke, M., Lee, W., Fried, J., Lenz, W., Krishnamoorthy, S., Maramraju, S., Kriplani, A., ... Fontaine, R. (2007). The design and performance of the 2^nd-generation RatCAP awake rat brain PET system. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Lemieux, F., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Bergeron, M., Riendeau, J., Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2007). Timing improvement by low-pass filtering and linear interpolation for the LabPET™ scanner. 2007 15th IEEE-NPSS Real-Time Conference, RT. DOI
• Yousefzadeh, H.C., Viscogliosi, N., Tétrault, M.-A., Pepin, C.M., Bérard, P., Bergeron, M., Semmaoui, H., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). ULTRA-fast wiener filter based crystal identification algorithm applied to the LabPET™ phoswich detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Viscogliosi, N., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2007). Wavelets-based crystal identification of phoswich detectors for small-animal PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Dumouchel, Tyler, Selivanov, Vitali, Cadorette, Jules, Lecomte, Roger, deKemp, Robert A. (2006). MLEM Reconstructed Image Resolution from the LabPET Animal Scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Bérard, P., Riendeau, J., Pepin, C.M., Rouleau, D., Cadorette, J., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2006). Novel CT detector based on an inorganic scintillaior working in photon-counting mode. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. DOI
• Pepin, C.M., Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Tétrault, M.-A., Leroux, J.-D., Michaud, J.-B., Robert, S., Dautet, H., Davies, M., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2006). Performance evaluation of a deal-crystal APD-based detector modules for positron emission tomography. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Viscogliosi, N., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2006). Wavelets-Based Crystal Identification of Phoswich Detectors for Small-Animal PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Convert, L., Morin-Brassard, G., Cadorette, J., Rouleau, D., Croteau, E., Archambault, M., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2005). A microvolumetric β blood counter for pharmacokinetic PET studies in small animals. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Semmaoui, H., Viscogliosi, N., Belanger, F., Michaud, J-B., Pepin, C. M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2005). Crystal identification based on recursive-least-squares and least-mean-squares AutoRegressive models for small animal PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Semmaoui, H., Viscogliosi, N., Bélanger, F., Michaud, J.-B., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2005). Crystal identification based on recursive-least-squares and least-mean-squares AutoRegressive models for small animal PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Vaska, P., Woody, C.L., Schlyer, D.J., Radeka, V., O'Connor, P., Pratte, J.-F., Shokouhi, S., Stoll, S.P., Junnarkar, S.S., Purschke, M., Park, S.-J., Southekal, S., Dzhordzhadze, V., Schiffer, W., Neill, J., Murphy, M., Aubele, T., Kristiansen, R., Villanueva, A., ... Fontaine, R. (2005). Initial performance of the RatCAP, a PET camera for conscious rat brain imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Tétrault, M.-A., Lepage, M.D., Viscogliosi, N., Bélanger, F., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2005). Real time coincidence detection system for digital high resolution APD-based animal PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Fontaine, R., Tétrault, M.-A., Bélanger, F., Viscogliosi, N., Himmich, R., Michaud, J.-B., Robert, S., Leroux, J.-D., Semmaoui, H., Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R. (2005). Real time digital signal processing implementation for an APD-based PET scanner with phoswich detectors. 2005 14TH IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference. DOI
• Fontaine, Rejean, Belanger, Francois, Viscogliosi, Nicolas, Semmaoui, Hicham, Tetrault, Marc-Andre, Michaud, Jean-Baptiste, Pepin, Catherine, Cadorette, Jules, Lecomte, Roger. (2005). The architecture of LabPET (TM), a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Fontaine, R., Bélanger, F., Viscogliosi, N., Semmaoui, H., Tétrault, M.-A., Michaud, J.-B., Pepin, C., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2005). The architecture of LabPET™, a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Purschke, M.L., Kandasamy, A., Kriplani, A., Lecomte, R., O'Connor, P., Pratte, J.-F., Radeka, V., Schlyer, D., Southekal, S., Stoll, S., Vaska, P., Villanueva, A., Woody, C.L., Junnakar, S., Krishnamoorthy, S., Shokouhi, S., Fontaine, R., Dzhordzhadze, V. (2005). The ratCAP conscious small animal PET tomograph. 2005 14TH IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference. DOI
• Fontaine, R, Bélanger, F, Cadorette, J, Leroux, JD, Martin, JP, Michaud, JB, Pratte, JF, Robert, S, Viscogliosi, N, Lecomte, R. (2004). A data acquisition sub-system for distributed, digital, computational, APD-based, bimodal PET/CT architecture for small animal imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Michaud, JB, Fontaine, R, Lecomte, R. (2004). ARMAX model and recursive least-squares identification for DOI measurement in PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Berard, P, Pepin, CM, Rouleau, D, Cadorette, J, Lecomte, R. (2004). CT acquisition using PET detectors and electronics. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Michaud, J.-B., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2004). Experimental results of identification and vector quantization algorithms for DOI measurement in digital PET scanners with phoswich detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Michaud, JB, Fontaine, R, Lecomte, R. (2004). Experimental results of identification and vector quantization algorithms for DOI measurement in digital PET scanners with phoswich detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Junnarkar, P. O'Connor, C. Woody, S. Stoll, A. Villanueva, A. Kandasamy, V. Radeka, Bo Yu, S. Robert, Roger LECOMTE, R. Fontaine. (2004). Front-end electronics for the RatCAP mobile animal PET scanner : timing discriminator and 32 line address priority serial encoder. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pratte, J.-F., Junnarkar, S., O'Connor, P., Woody, C., Stoll, S., Villanueva, A., Kandasamy, A., Radeka, V., Yu, B., Robert, S., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2004). Front-end electronics for the RatCAP mobile animal PET scanner: Timing discriminator and 32 line address priority serial encoder. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Pratte, JF, Junnarkar, S, O'Connor, P, Woody, C, Stoll, S, Villanueva, A, Kandasamy, A, Radeka, V, Yu, B, Robert, S, Lecomte, R, Fontaine, R. (2004). Front-end electronics for the RatCAP mobile animal PET scanner: Timing discriminator and 32 line address priority serial encoder. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Fontaine, R, Tetrault, MA, Belanger, F, Viscogliosi, N, Berard, P, Cadorette, J, Leroux, JD, Michaud, JB, Pratte, JF, Pepin, C, Robert, S, Lecomte, R. (2004). Preliminary results of a data acquisition sub-system for distributed, digital, computational, APD-based, dual-modality PET/CT architecture for small animal imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Fontaine, R., Tétrault, M.-A., Bélanger, F., Viscogliosi, N., Bérard, P., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J.-D., Michaud, J.-B., Pratte, J.-F., Pepin, C., Robert, S., Lecomte, R. (2004). Preliminary results of a data acquisition sub-system for distributed, digital, computational, APD-based, dual-modality PET/CT architecture for small animal imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Woody, C., Dzhordzhadze, V., Fontaine, R., Junnakar, S., Kandasamy, A., Kriplani, A., Krishnamoorthy, S., Lecomte, R., O'Connor, P., Page, C., Pratte, J.-F., Purschke, M., Radeka, V., Rampil, I., Schlyer, D., Shokouhi, S., Southekal, S., Stoll, S., Vaska, P., ... Yu, B. (2004). The RatCAP conscious small animal PET tomograph. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Woody, C, Dzhordzhadze, V, Fontaine, R, Junnakar, S, Kandasamy, A, Kriplani, A, Krishnamoorthy, S, Lecomte, R, O'Connor, P, Page, C, Pratte, JF, Purschke, M, Radeka, V, Rampil, I, Schlyer, D, Shokouhi, S, Southekal, S, Stoll, S, Vaska, P, ... Yu, B. (2004). The RatCAP conscious small animal PET tomograph. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Leroux, J.-D., Rouleau, D., Pepin, C.M., Michaud, J.-B., Cadorette, J., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2004). Time discrimination techniques using artificial neural networks for positron emission tomography. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Leroux, JD, Rouleau, D, Pepin, CM, Michaud, JB, Cadorette, J, Fontaine, R, Lecomte, R. (2004). Time discrimination techniques using artificial neural networks for positron emission tomography. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Fontaine, R., Bélanger, F., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J.-D., Martin, J.-P., Michaud, J.-B., Pratte, J.-F., Robert, S., Viscogliosi, N., Lecomte, R. (2003). A data acquisition sub-system for distributed, digital, computational, APD-based, bimodal PET/CT architecture for small animal imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Michaud, J.-B., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2003). ARMAX model and recursive least-squares identification for DOI measurement in PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Bérard, P., Pepin, C.M., Rouleau, D., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2003). CT acquisition using PET detectors and electronics. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Lecomte, R, Croteau, E, Gauthier, ME, Archambault, M, Aliaga, A, Rousseau, J, Cadorette, J, Bénard, F, Bentourkia, M. (2003). Cardiac PET imaging of blood flow, metabolism and function in normal and infarcted rats. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Robert, S., Pratte, J.-F., DeGeronimo, G., O'Connor, P., Stoll, S., Pepin, C.M., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2003). Design and performance of 0.18-μm CMOS charge preamplifiers for APD-based PET scanners. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Fontaine, R., Michaud, J.-B., Bélanger, F., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J.-D., Pratte, J.-F., Robert, S., Lecomte, R. (2003). Design of a Dual-Modality, Digital Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) Scanner for Small Animal Imaging. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings.
• Fontaine, R, Michaud, JB, Belanger, F, Cadorette, J, Leroux, JD, Pratte, JF, Robert, S, Lecomte, R. (2003). Design of a dual-modality, digital positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scanner for small animal imaging. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Pratte, J.-F., De Geronimo, G., Junnarkar, S., O'Connor, P., Yu, B., Robert, S., Radeka, V., Woody, C., Stoll, S., Vaska, P., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2003). Front-end electronics for the RatCAP mobile animal PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• (2003). Investigation of the properties of new scintillator LYSO and recent LSO scintillators for phoswich PET detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Vaska, P., Woody, C.L., Schlyer, D.J., Shokouhi, S., Stoll, S.P., Pratte, J.-F., O'Connon, P., Junnarkar, S.S., Rescia, S., Yu, B., Purschke, M., Kandasamy, A., Villanueva, A., Kriplani, A., Radeka, V., Volkow, N., Lecomte, R., Fontaine, R. (2003). RatCAP: Miniaturized head-mounted PET for conscious rodent brain imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Leroux, J.-D., Martin, J.-P., Rouleau, D., Pepin, C.M., Cadorette, J., Fontaine, R., Lecomte, R. (2003). Time determination of BGO-APD detectors by digital signal processing for Positron Emission Tomography. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Pepin, CM, Berard, P, Lecomte, R. (2002). Assessment of reflective separator films for small crystal arrays. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Croteau, E., Gauthier, M.-E., Archambault, M., Aliaga, A., Rousseau, J., Cadorette, J., Bénard, F., Bentourkia, M. (2002). Cardiac PET Imaging of Blood Flow, Metabolism and Function in Normal and Infarcted Rats. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Pepin, CM, Berard, P, Lecomte, R. (2002). Comparison of LSO, LGSO and MLS scintillators. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bentourkia, A, Croteau, E, Langlois, R, Aliaga, A, Rousseau, J, Cadorette, J, Benard, F, Lesur, O, Lecomte, R. (2002). Coupling of C-11-acetate and N-13-ammonia for measurement of myocardial blood flow in normal rats using the Sherbrooke PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pratte, JF, Pepin, CM, Rouleau, D, Menard, O, Mouine, J, Lecomte, R. (2002). Design of a fast shaping amplifier for PET/CT APD detectors with depth-of-interaction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pepin, C.M., Perrot, A.-L., Bérard, P., Pépin, C., Houde, D., Lecomte, R., Melcher, C.L., Dautet, H. (2002). Investigation of the Properties of new Scintillator LYSO and Recent LSO Scintillators for Phoswich PET Detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Pepin, C.M., Bérard, P., Lecomte, R. (2001). Assessment of reflective separator films for small crystal arrays. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Bentourkia, M., Croteau, E., Langlois, R., Aliaga, A., Rousseau, J., Cadorette, J., Bénard, F., Lesur, O., Lecomte, R. (2001). Coupling of ¹¹C-acetate and ¹³N-ammonia for measurement of myocardial blood flow in normal rats using the sherbrooke PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Pratte, J.-F., Pepin, C.M., Rouleau, D., Ménard, O., Mouine, J., Lecomte, R. (2001). Design of a fast shaping amplifier for PET/CT APD detectors with depth-of-interaction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Lepage, M.D., Leroux, J.-D., Selivanov, V., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (2001). Design of a prototype real-time image reconstruction system for PET imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Selivanov, V.V., Lepage, M.D., Lecomte, R. (2001). Real-time PET image reconstruction based on regularized pseudo-inverse of the system matrix. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• C.M. Pepin, Roger LECOMTE, D. Krus, L. Perna, W. Novak. (2000). Evaluation of reflective separators for arrays of small crystals used with avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Pepin, C.M., Lecomte, R., Krus, D., Perna, L., Novak, W. (2000). Evaluation of reflective separators for arrays of small crystals used with avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Lepage, M.D., Léger, G., Cadorette, J., Leroux, J.-D., Otis, M., Rodrigue, S., Lecomte, R. (2000). FPGA/DSP-based coincidence unit and data acquisition system for the sherbrooke animal PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• M.D. Lepage, G. Leger, J. Cadorette, J.-D. Leroux, M. Otis, S. Rodrigue, Roger LECOMTE. (2000). FPGA/DSP-based coincidence unit and data acquisition system for the sherbrooke animal PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Selivanov, V., Lecomte, R. (2000). Fast PET image reconstruction based on SVD decomposition of the system matrix. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Lecomte, R., Pepin, C.M., Lepage, M.D., Pratte, J.-F., Dautet, H., Binkley, D.M. (2000). Performance analysis of phoswich/APD detectors and low noise CMOS preamplifiers for high resolution PET systems. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Roger LECOMTE, C.M. Pepin, M.D. Lepage, J.-F. Pratte, H. Dautet, D.M. Binkley. (2000). Performance analysis of phoswich/APD detectors and low noise CMOS preamplifiers for high resolution PET systems. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Binkley, DM, Puckett, BS, Casey, ME, Lecomte, R, Saoudi, A. (1999). A power efficient, low noise, wideband, integrated CMOS preamplifier for LSO/APD PET systems. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Selivanov, V, Lapointe, D, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (1999). Cross-validation stopping rule for ML-EM reconstruction of dynamic PET series: Effect on image quality and quantitative accuracy. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• Selivanov, V., Picard, Y., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Lecomte, R. (1999). Detector response models for statistical iterative image reconstruction in high resolution PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Bentourkia, M, Lapointe, D, Selivanov, V, Buvat, I, Lecomte, R. (1999). Determination of blood curve and tissue uptake from left ventricle using FADS in rat FDG-PET studies. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Thompson, CJ, Lecomte, R, Cadorette, J. (1999). Feasibility of using beta-gamma coincidence for 3D PET attenuation correction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Saoudi, A., Pepin, C., Dion, F., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R., Andreaco, M., Casey, M., Nutt, R., Dautet, H. (1999). Investigation of depth-of-interaction by pulse shape discrimination in multicrystal detectors read out by avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Casey, M.E., Dautet, H., Waechter, D., Lecomte, R., Eriksson, L., Schmand, M. (1999). LSO block detector for PET using an avalanche photodiode array. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Saoudi, A., Lecomte, R. (1999). Novel APD-based detector module for multi-modality PET/SPECT/CT scanners. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Picard, Y., Selivanov, V., Verreault, M., Lecomte, R. (1999). Optimizing communications for parallel ML-EM image reconstruction on large clusters of processors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Y. Picard, V. Selivanov, M. Verreault, Roger LECOMTE. (1999). Optimizing communications for parallel ML-EM image reconstruction on large clusters of processors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). DOI
• Saoudi, A., Pepin, C., Houde, D., Lecomte, R. (1999). Scintillation light emission studies of LSO scintillators. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
• Saoudi, A, Pepin, CM, Lecomte, R. (1999). Study of light collection in multi-crystal detectors. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record.
• D. Lapointe, J. Cadorette, S. Rodrigue, D. Rouleau, Roger LECOMTE. (1998). Design of a microvolumetric blood counter/sampler for metabolic PET imaging in rats and mice. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• B. Desjardins, Roger LECOMTE. (1998). Parallel approach to iterative tomographic reconstruction for high resolution PET imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Yao, RT, Lecomte, R, Msaki, P. (1998). Spectral photon degradation model for energy-dependent scatter correction. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Lapointe, D., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Rouleau, D., Lecomte, R. (1997). Design of a microvolumetric blood counter/sampler for metabolic PET imaging in rats and mice. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (1997). Energy dependence of nonstationary subtraction-restoration scatter correction in high resolution PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Lecomte, R., Pepin, C., Rouleau, D., Saoudi, A., Andreaco, M.S., Casey, M., Nutt, R., Dautet, H., Webb, P.P. (1997). Investigation of GSO, LSO and YSO scintillators using reverse avalanche photodiodes. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Desjardins, Benoit, Lecomte, Roger. (1997). Parallel approach to iterative tomographic reconstruction for high resolution PET imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Yao, R, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (1997). Study of multispectral convolution scatter correction in high resolution PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1996). Energy dependence of nonstationary subtraction-restoration scatter correction in high resolution PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Yao, R, Msaki, P, Cadorette, J, Bentourkia, M, Lecomte, R. (1996). Improvement of image quality in multispectral PET by energy space smoothing and detector space normalization. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). DOI
• Lecomte, R, Cadorette, J, Rodrigue, S, Lapointe, D, Rouleau, D, Bentourkia, M, Yao, R, Msaki, P, Schmutz, G. (1996). Initial results from the Sherbrooke avalanche photodiode PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). DOI
• Yao, R., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1996). Study of multispectral convolution scatter correction in high resolution PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• (1995). Energy and position dependence of scatter functions in high resolution PET. Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium - NSS. DOI
• Bentourkia, M., Msaki, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (1995). Energy and position dependence of scatter functions in high resolution PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Bentourkia, M., Rouleau, D., Yao, R., Msaki, P. (1995). High resolution pet scanner based on avalanche photodiode detectors for animal studies. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings.
• Yao, R., Msaki, P., Cardorette, J., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1995). Improvement of image quality in multispectral PET by energy space smoothing and detector space normalization. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Rodrigue, S., Lapointe, D., Rouleau, D., Bentourkia, M., Yao, R., Msaki, P., Schmutz, G. (1995). Initial results from the Sherbrooke avalanche photodiode PET scanner. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• R. Yao, P. Msaki, J. Cadorette, M. Bentourkia, Roger LECOMTE. (1995). Reduction of variance in multispectral PET data by energy space filtering. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Yao, R., Msaki, P., Cadorette, J., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1995). Reduction of variance in multispectral pet data by energy space filtering. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings.
• Bentourkia, M., Msaki, P., Cadorette, J., Lecomte, R. (1994). Assessment of scatter components in multispectral PET imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• Lecomte, R., Cadorette, J., Richard, P., Rodrigue, S., Rouleau, D. (1994). Design and engineering aspects of avalanche photodiode PET tomograph. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium &amp; Medical Imaging Conference.
• MSAKI, P, YAO, R, CADORETTE, J, BENTOURKIA, M, LECOMTE, R. (1994). METHODS FOR REDUCING STATISTICAL NOISE OF MULTISPECTRAL DATA IN POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology. DOI
• Msaki, P., Yao, R., Cadorette, J., Bentourkia, M., Lecomte, R. (1994). Methods for reducing statistical noise of multispectral data in positron emission tomography. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings.
• M. Bentourkia, P. Msaki, J. Cadorette, Roger LECOMTE. (1993). ASSESSMENT OF SCATTER COMPONENTS IN MULTISPECTRAL PET IMAGING. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). DOI
• Roger LECOMTE, J. Cadorette, P. Richard, S. Rodrigue, D. Rouleau. (1993). DESIGN AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE PET TOMOGRAPH. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC). DOI
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