We evaluation basic characteristics of a compact type semiconductor gamma camera (eZ-SCOPE AN) of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CdZnTe). This new compact gamma camera has 256 semiconductors representing the same number of pixels. Each semiconductor is 2 mm square and is located in 16 lines and rows on the surface of the detector. The specific performance characteristics were evaluated in the study re...

Introduction: In nuclear medicine, the use of a pixelated semiconductor detector such as CZT is an of growing interest for introducing new devices. Especially, the spatial resolution can be improved by using a pixelated parallel-hole collimator with equal holes and pixel sizes based on the pixelated detector. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of pixelated and ...

We demonstrate a new type of spatial phase-shifting, dynamic interferometer that can acquire phase-shifted interferograms in a single camera frame. The interferometer is constructed with a pixelated phase-mask aligned to a detector array. The phase-mask encodes a high-frequency spatial interference pattern on two collinear and orthogonally polarized reference and test beams. The phase-differenc...

Photometric stereo is an established three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique for estimating surface shape and reflectivity using multiple images of a scene taken from the same viewpoint but subject to different illumination directions. Importantly, this technique requires the scene to remain static during image acquisition otherwise pixel-matching errors can introduce significant errors in the...

Preliminary work has started for the decommissioning of the research reactor MR at the RRC «Kurchatov Institute». One of stages of preliminary work for the decommissioning of a research reactor is the carrying out of radiation survey. An automatic system Gamma locator for the remote measurement of radioactivity in the reactor areas was developed. The «gamma locator» is a spectrometric system de...

A new detector design using pixelated NaI(Tl) crystals has been evaluated for use in positron emission tomography (PET). This detector uses 4 4 30 mm NaI(Tl) pixels coupled via a lightguide (1.4 cm thick) to an array of 39 mm diameter photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in an Anger detector design. Our measurements show that the high light output of NaI(Tl) leads to a good discrimination of the 4 mm N...

PURPOSE The solid-state gamma camera 2020tc Imager (Digirad, CA) is now commercially available and has been clinically applied. The present study evaluates the feasibility of equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography (ERNV) within a 3 min period using this camera equipped with a highly sensitive collimator. MATERIALS AND METHODS ERNV was performed from the best septal position (left anterior ...