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In a neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$) experiment, energy resolution is important to distinguish between $0\nu\beta\beta$ and background events. CAlcium fluoride for studies of Neutrino and Dark matters by Low Energy…

The application of a high purity germanium (HPGe) gamma spectrometer in determining the fuel element burnup in a future reactor is studied. The HPGe detector is exposed by a Co60 source with varying irradiation rate from 10 kcps to 150 kcps…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-05-07 Weihua Yan , Liguo Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Zhigang Xiao

European Spallation Source instruments like the macromolecular diffractometer, NMX, require an excellent neutron detection efficiency, high-rate capabilities, time resolution, and an unprecedented spatial resolution in the order of a few…

We have constructed a moderately large area (32 cm2), fine pixel (2.5 mm pixel, 5 mm thick) CZT imaging detector which constitutes the first section of a detector module (256 cm2) developed for a balloon-borne wide-field hard X-ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. Hong , B. Allen , J. Grindlay , N. Chammas , S. Barthelemy , R. Baker , N. Gehrels , K. E. Nelson , S. Labov , J. Collins , W. R. Cook , R. McLean , F. Harrison

The imaging performance of a high-resolution preclinical microPET system employing liquid xenon as the gamma ray detection medium was simulated. The arrangement comprises a ring of detectors consisting of trapezoidal LXe time projection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 A. Miceli , J. Glister , A. Andreyev , D. Bryman , L. Kurchaninov , P. Lu , A. Muennich , F. Retiere , V. Sossi

Muon tomography based on the measurement of multiple scattering of atmospheric cosmic ray muons is a promising technique for detecting and imaging heavily shielded high-Z nuclear materials such as enriched uranium. This technique could…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 K. Gnanvo , B. Benson , W. Bittner , F. Costa , L. Grasso , M. Hohlmann , J. B. Locke , S. Martoiu , H. Muller , M. Staib , A. Tarazona , J. Toledo

We present methods to improve the energy resolution of single-channel, room-temperature Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CZT) detectors. A new preamplifier design enables the acquisition of the actual transient current from the crystals and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Ramachers , D. Y. Stewart

Detection of $\gamma$-ray polarization in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is as yet an unexploited feature that could be used as an additional handle to improve signal-to-background ratio in this imaging modality. The $\gamma$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-17 Siddharth Parashari , Mihael Makek , Tomislav Bokulić , Damir Bosnar , Ana Marija Kožuljević , Zdenka Kuncic , Petar Žugec

Objective. Prompt-gamma imaging encompasses several approaches for online monitoring of beam range or deposited dose distribution in proton therapy. We test one of the imaging techniques - a coded mask approach - both experimentally and via…

The Modified Horizontal Bridgman (MHB) process produces Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystals with high yield and excellent homogeneity. Various groups,including our own, previously reported on the test of 2x2x0.5 cm3 MHB CZT detectors…

Results from the simulations of a Compton gamma camera based on compact configuration of detectors consisting in two detection modules, each of them having two stages of high-resolution position- and energy-sensitive radiation detectors…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 L. Caballero

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

Nowadays, in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) systems, a Time of Flight information is used to improve the image reconstruction process. In Time of Flight PET (TOF-PET), fast detectors are able to measure the difference in the arrival…

Two detectors for energy-resolved fast-neutron imaging in pulsed broad-energy neutron beams are presented. The first one is a neutron-counting detector based on a solid neutron converter coupled to a gaseous electron multiplier (GEM). The…

Images of resolved 5.9 keV electron tracks produced from $^{55}$Fe X-ray interactions are presented for the first time using an optical readout time projection chamber (TPC). The corresponding energy spectra are also shown, with the FWHM…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-19 N. S. Phan , E. R. Lee , D. Loomba

Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive biomedical imaging modality for non-invasively detecting and visualizing positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals within a subject. In PET, measuring the time-of-flight (TOF)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-17 Minseok Yi , Daehee Lee , Alberto Gola , Stefano Merzi , Michele Penna , Jae Sung Lee , Simon R. Cherry , Sun Il Kwon

High-energy photonuclear ($\gamma+A$) scattering in ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions provides a unique probe of nuclear structure. This Letter studies the dependence of $\gamma+A$ jet production in ultra-peripheral Pb+Pb collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-23 ATLAS Collaboration

We report on the assessment of the imaging performance of CITIUS -- a high-speed X-ray detector developed for the large-scale synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8-II -- for heavy charged particles and neutrons. To characterize the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-25 Yoshio Kamiya , Haruki Nishino , Takaki Hatsui

Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) is a high-Z material with excellent photon radiation absorption properties, making it a promising material to include in radiation detection technologies. However, the brittleness of CdTe crystals as well as their…

To accurately quantify in vivo radiotracer uptake using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a challenging task due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and poor spatial resolution of PET camera along with the finite image sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Mahbubunnabi Tamal