A new gamma camera based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) pixel arrays to be used in nuclear medicine is introduced. Various performance characteristics of a-Si:H imagers are reviewed and compared with those of currently used equipment. An important component in the a-Si:H imager is the scintillator screen. A new approach for fabrication of high resolution CsI(Tl) scintillator layers,...

Thick mercuric iodide (HgI 2 ) detectors are investigated as potential room temperature gamma-ray spectrometers. By using pixelated anodes the induced charge on the electrode is dependent mainly on electron movement and is almost independent of the depth of interaction. Moreover, by reading out the planar cathode signal simultaneously, the depth of interaction can be determined and any effects ...

A camera capable of obtaining single snap-shot, quantitative, polarimetric measurements is investigated to determine performance characteristics. The camera employs a micropolarizer array with linear polarizers oriented at 0, 45, 90, and, 135 degrees. Micropolarizer arrays with elements as small as 7.4 microns and arrays as large 4 million pixels have been fabricated for use across the visible ...

The hybrid pixel detector Timepix3 allows the measurement of time and energy deposition an event simultaneously in each 55 μm pixel, which makes a promising approach for compact Compton camera. However, angular resolution camera based on this kind with high density is usually degraded imaging MeV gamma-ray sources, because diffusion energetic electron or photoelectron could trigger many pixels ...

AIM A comparative study of the images obtained with a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals (19 mm), a dedicated PET camera with BGO crystals and a conventional gamma camera with thin NaI crystals (9.5 mm) was conducted to clarify the clinical feasibility of a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals. METHODS FDG images of 27 patients with malignant tumo...

Introduction: Substantive amount of work has been done in modeling and analyzing the scintillation camera system processes including positioning and image formation. The goal of this work is to develop a framework for analyzing performance of nonlinear positioning methods upon construction of a mathematical model of the system. In this study, the photodetector array counts are ...