The drift strip method for improving the energy response of a CdZnTe (CZT) detector to hard X and gamma rays is discussed. Results for a 10x10x3 mm3 detector crystal demonstrate a remarkable improvement of the energy resolution. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) is 2.18 keV (3.6%), 2.45 keV (3.0%), 2.86 keV (0.8%) and 3.89 keV (0.6%) at 60 keV, 80 keV, 356 keV and 661 keV, respectively. The...

Detection of X- and gamma-rays is essential to a wide range applications from medical imaging high energy physics, astronomy, homeland security. Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) the most widely used material for room-temperature detector has been fulfilling requirements growing detection demands over last three decades. However, CZT still suffers presence density performance-limiting defects, such ...

We are currently developing Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors for a next-generation space-borne hard X-ray telescope which can follow up on the highly successful NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission. Since launch of in 2012, there have been major advances area mirrors, and state-of-the-art mirrors improve NuSTAR's angular resolution ~1 arcmin Half Power Diameter (HPD) to ...

Objective(s): The energy resolution of a cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) solid-state semiconductor detector is about 5%, and is superior to the resolution of the conventional Anger type detector which is 10%. Also, the window width of the high-energy part and of the low-energy part of a photo peak window can be changed separately. In this study, we used a semiconductor detector and examined the ef...

We are studying two new detector technologies that directly measure the three-dimensional coordinates of 511 keV photon interactions for high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) systems designed for small animal and breast imaging. These detectors are based on (1) lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) scintillation crystal arrays coupled to position-sensitive avalanche photodiodes (PSAPD) a...

A method to utilize CdZnTe (CZT) detectors in diagnostic x-ray spectroscopy is described in this article. Spectral distortion due to transmission of primary x rays, the escape of cadmium- and tellurium-K fluorescent x rays, and tailing was severe in measured x-ray spectra. Therefore, correction for the distortion was performed with the stripping method using response functions. The response fun...

Several payloads for hard X-ray (20-600 keV) imaging with coded aperture telescopes have been developed for balloon flight observations of cosmic x-ray sources. We briefly review the characteristics of these, particularly the EXITE2 system. The recent NASA program to develop an extended long duration (100d) balloon flight capability employing super-pressure balloons would allow a qualitatively ...

Abbreviations 2D, 3D 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional CZT cadmium zinc telluride EKG electric signal from the heart FBP filtered backprojection FOV field-of-view GE General Electric Ge(Li) germanium detector doped with lithium MLEM maximum likelihood expectation maximization NaI(Tl) sodium iodine doped with thallium NM nuclear medicine OSEM ordered subset expectation maximization PET positron emiss...

We report here on the optimization of 0.5 cm thick pixelated Orbotech CZT detectors with regards to the best contacting materials and the use of steering grids. We evaluated the performance of different contacting materials. Our study differs from earlier ones in that we investigated the performance of different anode and cathode materials separately. We obtain the best performance with Au cath...