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We are evaluating the performance of a Passive Gamma Emission Tomography (PGET) device equipped with 3D position-sensitive cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma-ray detectors when used for inspecting spent nuclear fuel assemblies (SFAs).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-09 Santeri Saariokari , Peter Dendooven , Mounia Laassiri , Erik Brücken

Dosimetry in BNCT poses significant challenges due to the indirect effect of neutrons interacting with elements within the body and uncertainties associated with the uptake of boron compounds used in clinical practice. Current treatment…

The soft MeV gamma-ray sky, from a few hundred keV up to several MeV, is one of the least explored regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The most promising technology to access this energy range is a telescope that uses Compton…

The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) is a balloon-borne Compton telescope designed for the study of astrophysical sources in the soft gamma-ray regime (200 keV--20 MeV). NCT's ten high-purity germanium crossed-strip detectors measure the…

A high-brilliance ($\sim10^{24}$~photon.s$^{-1}$.mm$^{-2}$.mrd$^{-2}$/0.1\%) gamma-ray source experiment is currently being planned at Fermilab ($E_\gamma\simeq 1.1$~MeV)~[1]. The source implements a high-repetition-rate inverse Compton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Mihalcea , A. Murokh , P. Piot , J. Ruan

Imaging of nuclear gamma-ray lines in the 1-10 MeV range is far from being established in both medical and physical applications. In proton therapy, 4.4 MeV gamma rays are emitted from the excited nucleus of either 12^C^* or 11^B^* and are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Ayako Koide , Jun Kataoka , Takamitsu Masuda , Saku Mochizuki , Takanori Taya , Koki Sueoka , Leo Tagawa , Kazuya Fujieda , Takuya Maruhashi , Takuya Kurihara , Taku Inaniwa

Intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) employs proton radiation rather than conventional X-rays to treat cancerous tumors. This approach offers significant advantages by minimizing the radiation exposure of surrounding healthy tissue,…

The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4-50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 P. F. Bloser , R. Andritschke , G. Kanbach , V. Schoenfelder , F. Schopper , A. Zoglauer

We have developed a compact Compton gamma-ray imager with a large field of view and a low channel-count that is capable of quickly localizing gamma-ray sources in the few hundred keV - several MeV range. The two detector planes (scatter and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 A. M. L. MacLeod , P. J. Boyle , D. S. Hanna , P. R. B. Saull , L. E. Sinclair , H. C. J. Seywerd

The novel whole-body PET system based on plastic scintillators is developed by the {J-PET} Collaboration. It consists of plastic scintillator strips arranged axially in the form of a cylinder, allowing the cost-effective construction of the…

A novel Compton Scanner setup has been built, commissioned and operated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich to collect pulses from bulk events in high-purity germanium detectors for pulse shape studies. In this fully automated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 I. Abt , C. Gooch , F. Hagemann , L. Hauertmann , D. Hervas Aguilar , X. Liu , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , A. J. Zsigmond

We are developing a Compton telescope based on high resolution Si and CdTe imaging devices in order to obtain a high sensitivity astrophysical observation in sub-MeV gamma-ray region. In this paper, recent results from the prototype Si/CdTe…

The major advantage of proton therapy over conventional radiotherapy is the dose deposition pattern, enabling precise coverage of the tumour volume while sparing nearby healthy tissues. However, accurate control of the proton beam range…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Magdalena Kołodziej

Purpose: Spectral imaging is a method in medical x-ray imaging to extract information about the object constituents by the material-specific energy dependence of x-ray attenuation. The authors have investigated a photon-counting spectral…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Erik Fredenberg , Magnus Hemmendorff , Bjorn Cederstrom , Magnus Aslund , Mats Danielsson

Although the MeV gamma-ray band is a promising energy-band window in astrophysics, the current situation of MeV gamma-ray astronomy significantly lags behind those of the other energy bands in angular resolution and sensitivity. An…

Photon imaging for MeV gammas has serious difficulties due to huge backgrounds and unclearness in images, which are originated from incompleteness in determining the physical parameters of Compton scattering in detection, e.g., lack of the…

Reliable attenuation and scatter compensation (ASC) is a prerequisite for quantification and beneficial for visual interpretation tasks in SPECT. In this paper, we develop a reconstruction method that uses the entire SPECT emission data,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-03-02 Md Ashequr Rahman , Richard Laforest , Abhinav K. Jha

Scintillation light from gamma ray irradiation in liquid xenon is detected by two Hamamatsu R9288 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) immersed in the liquid. UV light reflector material, PTFE, is used to optimize the light collection efficiency.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Ni , E. Aprile , K. L. Giboni , P. Majewski , M. Yamashita

The energy range from a few hundred keV to a few MeV includes important probes such as nuclear gamma-rays and the 511 keV annihilation line. However, compared to X-rays and GeV/TeV gamma-rays, this range suffers from lower sensitivity by…

The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) is one of the instrument payloads onboard ASTRO-H, and will cover a wide energy band (60--600 keV) at a background level 10 times better than instruments currently in orbit. The SGD achieves low background…