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A liquid xenon TPC for a medical imaging Compton telescope

Instrumentation and Detectors 2015-05-30 v2

Abstract

A new technique for medical imaging, "3{\gamma} imaging", is studied by our group at SUBATECH for few years. A small liquid xenon time projection chamber prototype has been built in order to demonstrate the feasibility of this technique. With an ultra-low-noise front-end electronics, the energy deposit and resolution of 511 keV {\gamma}-ray as a function of drift electric field (E) is measured with high precision. 500 {\mu}m of z resolution is estimated by measuring the charge carriers drift velocity and time resolution.

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@article{arxiv.1109.3586,
  title  = {A liquid xenon TPC for a medical imaging Compton telescope},
  author = {T. Oger and W-T. Chen and J-P. Cussonneau and J. Donnard and S. Duval and J. Lamblin and O. Lemaire and A. F. Mohamad Hadi and P. Le Ray and E. Morteau and L. Scotto Lavina and J-S. Stutzmann and D. Thers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3586},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 8 figures, Proceeding of 6th international conference on New Developments In Photodetection, Lyon, 4-8 July 2011