This paper presents an alternative to conventional gamma camera. The proposed system is based on the combination of a new detection material – CZT and a new acquisition geometry – 1D detector with slat collimator. The slat collimator offers a better compromise to the usual sensitivity-resolution tradeoff. Solid-state detection offers significantly improved energy resolution. The combination of ...

The use of modeling programs such as MCNP to predict the response of HPGe detectors is increasing in importance. Accurate simulation of germanium detectors to incident gamma rays relies on knowledge of the performance of the detector in different detector-source geometries. Two important performance parameters are the resolution and sensitivity. The resolution is the FWHM and FW.1M/FWHM ratio. ...

In this paper we compare confocal apparatus tomography and computer tomography for medical use. Two aspects are illustrated: the process of image visualization and the dose deposition. The latter aspect is a damage factor of the object under investigation; it is why the data collection time is evaluated. Two principal tomography schemes are described and the expressions connecting the collected...

The single-hole collimator limits the field of view of a scintillation probe to a single organ. The sensitivity for counting is approximately equal over the entire field of view. The most common use of this collimator is for iodine uptake measurements of the thyroid. An example of this "flat-field collimator" is shown (Fig. I). The sensitivity profile at the working distance illustrates the rel...

For scintigraphic instruments such as scanners and scintillation cameras, collimatore with greatly dif ferent characteristics have become available during recent years. In general little information is given concerning the performance of focused collimatore to the physician or physicist who has to select the proper collimator for a particular application.! Only the number of holes, the focal le...

In October 2009, a quad, mini-beam collimator was implemented at GM/CA CAT that allowed users to select between a 5, 10, or 20 micron mini-beam or a 300 micron scatter guard for macromolecular crystallography [1]. Initial alignment of each pinhole to the optical axis of each path through the mini-beam collimator is performed under an optical microscope using an alignment jig. Next, the pre-alig...

  Introduction: Monte Carlo (MC) is the most common method for simulating virtual SPECT projections. It is useful for optimizing procedures, evaluating correction algorithms and more recently image reconstruction as a forward projector in iterative algorithms; however, the main drawback of MC is its long run time. We introduced a model based method considering the eff...

PURPOSE In this article, the authors propose a multibeam field emission x-ray (MBFEX) system along with a half-scan fan-beam reconstruction algorithm. METHODS The proposed system consists of a linear CNT-based MBFEX source array, a single large area detector that is divided into same number of segments as the number of x-ray beams, a multihole collimator that aligns each beam with a correspon...