The Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) is a proposed very large area coded aperture telescope array, incorporating 8m of pixellated Cd-Zn-Te (CZT) detectors, to conduct a full-sky imaging and temporal hard x-ray (10-600 keV) survey each 95min orbit. With a sensitivity (5σ, 1yr) of ~0.05mCrab (10-150 keV), it will extend the ROSAT soft x-ray (0.5-2.5keV) and proposed ROSITA medium ...

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The scope of this study is to characterize the response a CdZnTe spectrometer evaluate its performance for measuring radioactivity in marine environment. semiconductor detectors have never been used before such applications. More specifically, with 4 cm3 CZT crystal was studied under various scenarios, by means Monte Carlo simulations and lab measurements. Using code MCNP5, effect water’s salin...

The Cadmium–Zinc–Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard AstroSat is designed for hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the energy range of 20–100 keV. CZT detectors are 5-mm thickness hence have good efficiency Compton interactions beyond 100 polarisation analysis using CZTI relies on such events been verified experimentally. same can also be used to extend up 380 Further, it has observed that about ...

We present measurement of characteristic Ka emission from Mo, Ag, and La targets irradiated by a 60 fs, 600 mJ, 10 Hz Ti:sapphire laser pulse at 10– 10 W/cm. These x-ray emissions can potentially be used in applications from laser-based hard x-ray sources to x-ray mammography so detailed knowledge of the spectra is required to assess imaging of the figure of merit. We show here that high resolv...

We outline our plan to develop ProtoEXIST, a balloon-borne prototype experiment for the Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) for the Black Hole Finder Probe. EXIST will consist of multiple wide-field hard X-ray coded-aperture telescopes. The current design of the EXIST mission employs two types of telescope systems: high energy telescopes (HETs) using CZT detectors, and low energy t...

Abstract Purpose of Review The purpose this review is to provide a summary on the status art simultaneous perfusion-innervation imaging by CZT-SPECT and clarify its potential applications in clinical practice. Recent Findings Introduction CZT cameras represented critical breakthrough nuclear cardiology. Although it has been demonstrated that cardiac innervation may be easily assessed CZT-SPECT,...

UNLABELLED Differences in the performance of cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) cameras or collimation systems that have recently been commercialized for myocardial SPECT remain unclear. In the present study, the performance of 3 of these systems was compared by a comprehensive analysis of phantom and human SPECT images. METHODS We evaluated the Discovery NM 530c and DSPECT CZT cameras, as well as ...

This paper presents innovative algorithms for optimum filtering, rise-time discrimination and proper correction of solid-state detector pulses based on digital pulse processing (DPP) techniques and on a Linear Sliding Method. These techniques allow a significant improvement on the spectral resolution by taking into account both the electronic noise and the pulse rise time fluctuations mainly du...

Cadmium telluride (CdTe) and cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe) have been regarded as promising semiconductor materials for hard X-ray and γray detection. The high atomic number of the materials (ZCd =48, ZTe=52) gives a high quantum efficiency in comparison with Si. The large band-gap energy (Eg ∼ 1.5 eV) allows us to operate the detector at room temperature. However, a considerable amount of cha...