Imaging and Neutrons 2006

High Spatial Resolution Neutron Imaging of Inertial Fusion Target Plasmas Using Bubble Detectors

بهینه سازی انرژی باریکه نوترون در نوترون درمانی با بور با روش مونت کارلو

 In last two decades the optimal neutron energy for the treatment of deep seated tumors in boron neutron capture therapy in view of neutron physics and chemical compounds of boron carrier has been under thorough study. Although neutron absorption cross section of boron is high (3836b), the treatment of deep seated tumors such as gliobelastoma multiform (GBM) requires beam of neutrons of higher ...

Glass-ceramic X-ray and Thermal Neutron Imaging Plates

We report the results of spatial resolution and conversion efficiency measurements on new fluorochlorozirconate and lithium-borate glass-ceramics that are being researched for x-ray and thermal neutron imaging applications. The sensitivity of the fluorochlorozirconate glass-ceramics containing BaCl2:Eu nano-crystallites is up to 80 % of that found in BaFBr(1000ppm Eu), which is the material use...

Analogies between neutron and gamma-ray imaging

Although the physics describing the interactions of neutrons with matter is quite different from that appropriate for hard x-rays and gamma rays, there are a number of similarities that allow analogous instruments to be developed for both types of ionizing radiation. A pinhole camera, for example, requires that the radiation obeys some form of geometrical optics, that a material can be found to...

PET vs. SPECT: in the context of ongoing developments

This paper intends to compare the abilities of the two major imaging modalities in nuclear medicine imaging: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT). The motivations are many-fold: (i) To gain a better understanding of the strengths and limitations of the two imaging modalities in the context of recent and ongoing developments in hardware ...