2000 IEEE NSS-MIC

Version 3.2

04-Oct-00

Program of Oral and Poster sessions

NSS and MICWorkshops

SNPS

October 15 - 20, 2000Lyon, France

Fundamental Technologies (NSS and MIC)

Silicon detectors1: Imaging (*)Oral Session

18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 16:30 - 18:00

A Radiographic Imaging System Based Upon a 2-D Silicon Microstrip Sensor372G. Iles, A. Papanestis, E. Corrin, M. Raymond, G. Hall, F. Triantis, N. Manthos, I. Evangelou, P. vd Stelt, T. Tarrant, R. Speller and G. Royle

Contrast-Detail Evaluation of a Digital X-ray Imaging System627M. Lundqvist, B. Cederström, V. Chmill, M. Danielsson and B. Hasegawa

Multi-anode Sawtooth SDD for X-ray Spectroscopy Fabricated on NTD Wafers300J. Sonsky, R.W. Hollander, P.M. Sarro, C.W.E. van Eijk

Spectroscopic-grade X-ray Imaging up to 100 kHz Frame Rate with Controlled Drift Detectors366A.Castoldi, C.Guazzoni, L.Strueder, P.Rehak

Charge Charing Effects in Pixellated Photon Counting Detectors766M. S. Passmore, R. Bates, K. Mathieson, V. O'Shea, M. Rahman, P. Seller, K. Smith

X-Ray Pixel Detector for Crystallography355P. Delpierre**, J.F. Berar*, L. Blanquart**, B. Caillot*, J.C. Clemens**, C. Mouget*. * Lab. Cristallographie, Grenoble, France, ** CPPM-IN2P3, Marseille, France

2: New Devices/TechnologyOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Compact Modeling of N-Side Interstrip Resistance in P-Stop and P-Spray Isolated Double-Sided Silicon Microstrip Detectors

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G. Verzellesi, G.F. Dalla Betta, G.U. Pignatel

Analysis and Test of Overhanging-metal Microstrip Detectors455D. Passeri, P. Ciampolini, G.M. Bilei, M.M. Angarano, and F. Moscatelli

Simulations of Electric Potential and Field Distributions in Si Microstrip Detectors with Various Strip Widths/Pitch configurations and Bulk Resistivities

205

Z. Li

The Star Silicon Drift Detector Vertex Tracker184Sanjeev U. Pandey for the STAR/SVT collaboration

Silicon Drift Detectors with Spiralling Electron Transport and Reduced Lateral Broadening377A.Castoldi, C.Guazzoni, L.Strueder

3: PixelsOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Particle Tracking Using CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor46J.D. Berst, G.Claus, C.Colledani, G.Deptuch, W.Dulinski, U.Goerlach, Y.Hu, D.Husson, G.Orazi, R.Turchetta, J.L.Riester, M.Winter

BTeV Silicon Pixel Detectors - Beam Test Results371S. Kwan et. al. ( BTeV pixel group)

Hybrid Pixel Detector Development for the Linear Collider Vertex Tracker561M. Battaglia, M. Caccia, W. Kucewicz

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A CCD based Vertex Detector for a High Energy Electron-Positron Linear Collider191T. Greenshaw and D. Milstead for the LCFI Collaboration

3D Architecture Silicon Sensors: Test Results: Future Plans842Christopher Kenney, Sherwood Parker, Brad Krieger, and Bernhard Ludewigt

4: Tracking StripsOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Performances and Running Experience of the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker169G.Batignani for the BaBar Silicon Vertex Tracker Group

Performance of BELLE Silicon Vertex Detector293T. Kawasaki, M. Hazumi, J. Kaneko, D. Marlow, Z.Natkaniec, H. Tajima, F. Takasaki, M. Tanaka, T. Tsuboyama, Y. Yamada, H. Yamamoto, M. Yokoyama, D. Zontar and BELLE Collaboration

Production and Testing of the D0 Silicon Microstrip Tracker536The D0 Collaboration

The CMS Central Tracker545S. Perriès (for the CMS Tracker Collaboration)

The Construction and Performance of the Silicon Tracker for the GLAST Beam Test Engineering Module

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Hartmut F.-W. Sadrozinski et al, GLAST LAT Tracker Collaboration

5: Radiation DamageOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Recent Results for the CMS Tracker Silicon Detectors508R. Dell'Orso on behalf of CMS Tracker

Radiation Hardness of Oxygenated Microstrip Detectors Read Out with LHC Speed Electronics

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P.P. Allport et al.

Irradiation of Cryogenic Silicon Detector with Heavy Ions317RD39 Collaboration: K. Borer et al & J. Vaitkus, E. Gaubas

Optimization of Electric Field Distribution by Free Carrier Injection in Silicon Detectors Operated at Low Temperatures

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V. Eremin2, Z. Li3, and E. Verbitskaya2. 2:Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences St-Petersburg, 3:Brookhaven National Laboratory

Temperature Dependence of Electron and Hole Signals in p+-n-n+ Diodes Irradiated with Neutrons

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M. Zavrtanik, V. Cindro, G. Kramberger, I. Mandic and M. Mikuz

1Poster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Recent Results In Development Of Si(Li) Peltier Cooled Detectors123A.Sokolov, A.Loupilov, V.Gostilo

Evaluation of Si(Li) Detectors by a Combination of the Copper Staining Method and X-ray Analytical Microscopy

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Hiroshi Kume, Hideaki Onabe, Mitsugu Obinata, and Toshisuke Kashiwagi

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Design and Analysis of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for Charged Particle Tracking45J.D. Berst, G.Claus, C.Colledani, G.Deptuch, W.Dulinski, U.Goerlach, Y.Hu, D.Husson, G.Orazi, R.Turchetta, J.L.Riester, M.Winter

Semi-Transparent Silicon Strip Sensors for the Precision Alignment of Tracking Detectors546M.Fernandez Garcia, S.Horvath, H.Kroha, A.Ostapchuk, S.Schael

Investigation of Silicon Sensors Quality as a Function of the Ohmic Side Processing Technology

342

P. Bloch, A. Peisert, A.Cheremukhin, I. Golutvin, N. Zamiatin, S. Golubkov, N. Egorov, Y. Kozlov, A. Sidorov

Development of a Medium Energy Gamma Telescope860F. Schopper, R. Andritschke, R. Diehl, G. Kanbach, V. Schönfelder and A. Zoglauer

2Poster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Improvement of Radiation-hardness of Double-sided Silicon Strip Detector for Belle SVD Upgrade

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J. Kaneko et al.

High Statistics Study of Radiation Damage on Silicon Microstrip Detectors363L. Borrello, R. Dell'Orso, S. Dutta, S. Gennai, A. Messineo, G. Segneri, A. Starodumov, L. Teodorescu, G. Tonelli, P.G. Verdini, INFN-Pisa.

Performance of Irradiated and Not Irradiated 500 micron Thick Silicon Microstrip Detectors386S. Busoni, L. Borrello, A. Buffini, C. Civinini, R. D'Alessandro, R. Dell'Orso, S. Dutta, M. Meschini, A. Messineo, M. Pieri, G. Segneri, A. Starodumov, G. Tonelli, P.G. Verdini

Radiation Damage of Standard and Oxygenated Silicon Diodes by 16, 21 and 27 MeV Protons.

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J. Wyss, D. Bisello, A. Candelori, A. Kaminsky, D. Pantano

Condensed Matter Detectors (other than silicon)1: Cd(Zn)TeOral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Stability and Characteristics of Large CZT Coplanar Electrode Detectors129J.M. Perez (1), Z. He (2), G.F. Knoll (2), D.K. Wehe (2) (1)CIEMAT, Madrid,Spain.(2) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Development of a Prototype Compton Scattering Camera Based on 3-D Position Sensitive CdZnTe Detectors

435

Yanfeng Du, Zhong He, G.F.Knoll, D.K.Wehe, Wen Li, J. Berry

A Capacitive Frisch Grid Structure for CdZnTe Detectors242G. Montémont, M. Arques, L. Verger, J. Rustique

Characterization of Thin Back-to-back CdTe Detectors with Various Sizes251Natalia Auricchio 1, Ezio Caroli 1, Ariano Donati 1, Waldes Dusi 2, Paul Fougeres 3, Eugenio Perillo 4, Paul Siffert 5 Affiliations: 1 Istituto TESRE/CNR, Bologna, Italy 2 Istituto TESRE/CNR and Sezione INFN, Italy

Use of CdZnTe Detectors in Hand-Held and Portable Isotope Identifiers to Detect Illicit Trafficking of Nuclear Material and Radioactive Sources

297

R. Arlt, J. Brutscher, R. Gunnink, V. Ivanov, K. Parnham, S.A. Soldner, J. Stein

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2: Cd(Zn)Te / L-ArOral Session18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Current Noise in CdZnTe Detectors410P. N. Luke, M. Amman, J. S. Lee, P. F. Manfredi Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Interaction Depth in CdTe/CdZnTe Spectrometers by Electron Drift Time463W. Li, Z. He, G.F. Knoll, D.K. Wehe

High Resolution CdTe Detector and Applications to the Imaging Device500Tadayuki Takahashi et al.

Preliminary Results Obtained from a Novel CdZnTe Pad Detector and Readout ASIC Developed for an Automatic Baggage Inspection System

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Tumay O. Tumer, Martin Clajus, Gerard Visser, Shi Yin, Paul Willson, Dale Maeding, Bruce Glick and Kevin Parnham

Performance of Barrel and End-cap Module-0’s of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter

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G. F. Tartarelli, for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Collaboration

3: Cd(Zn)Te / GaAsOral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 11:00 - 12:30

A Study of the Effect of Incremental Neutron Fluences Upon the Performance of Self-Biased 10B-Coated High-Purity Epitaxial GaAs Neutron Detectors

230

H.K. Gersch, D.S. McGregor, and D.K. Wehe

Method for Improving Uniformity and Spectral Performance of Pixelated CdZnTe Gamma Detectors

653

A. Shor, Y. Eisen, and I. Mardor

Edge and Corner Effects on Spectra of Segmented CdZnTe Detectors647I. Mardor, A. Shor, Y. Eisen

Simulation of Charge Transport in CdZnTe Pixel Detectors540K.Mathieson, R.Bates, V.O’Shea, M.S.Passmore, M.Rahman, K.M.Smith, K.Valpas

Numerical Modeling of Charge-Sharing in CdZnTe Pixel Detectors792S. E. Boggs, H. Chen, A. E. Bolotnikov, W. R. Cook, F. A. Harrison, S. M. Schindler California Institute of Technology

4: C / Ge / L-Xe (*)Oral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Imaging of Charge Collection Efficiency in a Coplanar CVD Diamond Detector using IBIC Microscopy

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P.J. Sellin et al, Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford UK.

Thin CVD Diamond Detectors with High Charge Collection Efficiency166A. Brambilla, D. Tromson, P. Bergonzo, C. Mer, F. Foulon

Signal Interpolation in Germanium Strip Detectors for Improved 3-D Position Resolution221M.T. Burks, M. Amman, E.L. Hull, P.N. Luke, N.W. Madden

Development of Germanium Strip Detectors for Environmental Remediation756B.F. Phlips, W.N. Johnson, R.A. Kroeger, J.D. Kurfess, G. Phillips, P.N. Luke

Liquid Xe TPC with Multi-strip type Anode511K.Takizawa, T. Doke, J. Kikuchi, K. Masuda, N. Matsuoka, H. Nishikido, H. Okada, R. Sawada, E. Shibamura, S. Suzuki, K. Terasawa, M. Yamashita

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Performance of the Light Trigger System in the Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

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U. Oberlack, E. Aprile, A. Curioni, V. Egorov, K.-L. Giboni, S. Ventura

1: Cd(Zn)TePoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Technological Aspects of Development of Pixel and Strip Detectors Based on CdTe and CdZnTe

122

V.Gostilo, V.Ivanov, S.Kostenko, I.Lisjutin, A.Loupilov, S.Nenonen, H.Sipila, K.Valpas

Development and Evaluation of a CZT Based Diffraction Probe189T. Carter, A. Boyd, G. Dermody, S. Hunter, I.D. Jupp and J. Leggett

Preliminary Results Obtained from a High resolution Hybrid CdZnTe Pixel Detector being Developed for High Energy X-ray Astronomy

746

T.O. Tumer, M. Finger, E.E. Gordon, W.J. Hamilton, Kevin Hurley, G. Mohanty, H. Ogelman, Robert Paulos and J. Zweerink

Simulation of the Collection Properties of CdTe Strip Detectors759A.Cola, F.Quaranta, E.Caroli, W.Dusi

Behavior of CdTe and CdZnTe Detectors Following Electron Irradiation825A.Cavallini, B.Fraboni, W.Dusi, N. Auricchi, P.Chirco, M.Zanarini, P.Siffert

2: Ge / CPoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Gamma-ray Spectrometer of High Purity Germanium Detector Cooled by the Stirling cycle Cryostat in the Lunar Mission SELENE

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M. -N. Kobayashi, N. Hasebe, E. Shibamura, K. Narasaki, K. Tsurumi, T. Yamamoto, K. Sakai, K. Mori, A. Oka, C. d’Uston, H. Barthe

A Micro-Strip Germanium Detector for Position Sensitive X-Ray Spectroscopy835D. Protic, Th. Stöhlker, H.J. Beyer, J. Bojowald, G. Borchert, A. Hamacher, C. Kozhuharov, T. Ludziejewski, X. Ma, I. Mohos

Performance Test of a High-resolution High-energy Photon Spectrometer using Laser Compton Photons

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H. Harada, K. Furutaka, H. Ohgaki, and H. Toyokawa

First Results of the SPI Imaging Test Setup857C. B. Wunderer, R. Diehl, R. Georgii, A. v. Kienlin, G. G. Lichti, F. Sanchez, V. Schönfelder, A. Strong and G. Vedrenne

3: Other SemiconductorsPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Comprehensive Measurements of GaAs Pixel Detectors Capacitance43L.Barberini, S.Cadeddu, M.Caria, S.D'Auria, A.Giannattasio, A.Lai, S.Rusani

Comparison of Imaging and Spectroscopic Performances for different Semiconductor Detectors

288

S.R. Amendolia, M.G. Bisogni, U. Bottigli, A. Ceccopieri, P. Delogu, G. Dipasquale, M.E. Fantacci, A. Marchi, V.M. Marzulli, P. Oliva, R. Palmiero, V. Rosso, A. Stefanini, S. Stumbo, S. Zucca

Large Volume Thallium Bromide Detectors for Gamma-ray Spectroscopy340K. Hitomi, O. Muroi, M. Matsumoto, T. Shoji, Y. Hiratate

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Solid-State Neutron Detection444P.R. Bennett (RMD), F.P. Doty (SNL), R. Grazioso (RMD) and K.S. Shah (RMD)

Evaluation of InP:Fe and InP:Mn and its Use for Particle Detectors811K. Zdansky

An Experimental Set-Up for Analysis of Materials Using Prompt Gamma Neutron Activation839V. Tripadus, L. Craciun

4: Li-Xe / L-Ar / MCPPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Two-dimensional Imaging Soft X-ray Pinhole Camera for Plasma Diagnostics326Yong Hyun Chunga, Gyuseong Choa, Ho Kyung Kima, Suk-Jae Yoob, Myeun Kwonb

Gamma-Ray Imaging with a Liquid Xenon Ionisation Chamber422V.N.Solovov, V.Chepel, M.I.Lopes, R.Ferreira Marques and A.J.P.L.Policarpo

Liquid-gas Double Phase Xenon Proportional Scintillation Detector for Direct WIMPs Search515S.Suzuki,T.Doke,K.Kawasaki,J.Kikuchi,M.Yamashita

Gaseous Detectors1Oral Session

18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

A Gaseous Muon Detector at the HERA-B Experiment813V.Eyges,F.Khasanov,V.Tchoudakov, T.Kvaratskheliia, L.Laptin, Yu.Gilitsky,I.Tichomirov, M.Titov, Yu.Zaitsev(ITEP, Moscow) M.Buchler, R.Harr, P.Karchin, S.Nam, J.Shiu, S.Takach(Wayne State University)

Investigation of Aging in the HERA-B Outer Tracker Drift Tubes810HERA-B Outer Tracker Group

Construction and Test of Precision Drift Chambers for the Muon Spectrometer of the ATLAS Experiment

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F.Bauer et al., Max-Planck-Institut f. Physik and Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich

The ATLAS Precision Muon Tracking Chambers and the First Construction Experience.798Irene Vichou for the ATLAS Muon Collaboration

A Radial TPC for Heavy Ions333C. Garabatos for the CERES Collaboration

2 (*)Oral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

The Inner Tracking System of the Experiment Hera-B178Stefan Keller for the Hera-B Inner Tracker Collaboration

GEM Detectors for COMPASS310B. Ketzer, A. Bressan, S. Bachmann, A. Placci, L. Ropelewski, F. Sauli

An Aging Study of Double GEMs with Ar-CO2 Gas Mixture667J. Miyamoto and I.P.J. Shipsey

The Study and Optimization of New Micropattern Gaseous Detectors for High Rate Applications

559

M. Danielsson, C. Iacobaeus, P. Fonte, J. Ostling, V. Peskov, M. Wallmark

Progress in Simulations of Micropattern Gas Avalanche Detectors281Peter Cwetanski

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3Oral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Sealed MSGC Detectors at ILL165P. Convert, JF. Clergeau, D. Feltin, H. Fischer, B. Guerard, T. Hansen, G. Manzin, A. Oed, P. Palleau

Basic Characteristics of X-ray Polarimeter Using Microstrip Gas Proportional Counter303K.Asamura, H.Sakurai, S.Gunji, Y.inoue, T.Suzuki, and T.Maeda

Development of a Multi-grid type Microstrip Gas Chamber745H. Takahashi, K. Yokoi, K. Mori, D. Fukuda, M. Nakazawa, K. Hasegawa* Dept. of Quantum Eng. and Systems Sci., The University of Tokyo, *Hosei University

A New Technique for Fabrication of a Gas Electron Multiplier843P. Rehak, G.C. Smith, J.B. Warren and B. Yu

4Oral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Performance of a Tracking Device Based on the GEM Scintillation373F.A.F. Fraga, L.M.S. Margato, S.T.G. Fetal, R. Ferreira Marques and A.J.P.L Policarpo LIP-Coimbra and Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal

An Argon Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter with UV Avalanche Photodiode Scintillation Readout

534

C.M.B. Monteiro, J.A.M. Lopes, J.M.F. dos Santos and C.A.N. Conde

Silicon Photodiodes for VUV Scintillation Readout of Gas Proportional Scintillation Counters543J.A.M. Lopes, J.M.F. dos Santos and C.A.N. Conde

Detection of Photoabsorption Point with Capillary Imaging Gas Proportional Counter304Y.Inoue, H.Sakurai, S.Gunji, T.suzuki, T.Maeda, T.Masuda, and K.asamura

Micro Cone Detector608D.Suyama , J.Kawarabayashi ,A.Uritani and T.Iguchi ,Nagoya University

1Poster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Leading Edge Timing Compensation for Accurate Drift-Time Measurements in the case of Resistive Anode Wires

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N. Matsuoka and Y. Yokota

Marine: a Fast Fully Digitalized Wide Range Neutron Monitor System59B. Lescop, P Pasdeloup, J. Falaise, J. Lefèvre, T. Nguyen, C. Sudres, JC. Trama

Study of Streamer Size Measurements Using CCD Camera System142S.Narita,K.Kumagai,N.Takahashi,K.Neichi,Y.Hoshi,M.Yamaga,A.Yamaguchi,H.Yuta et al.,TOHOKU-KLM Collaboration

ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube Assembly and Test223Qichun Xu, Bing Zhou

A Search for Freonless Gas Mixture for Glass RPC234S.Narita,K.Abe,T.Nagamine,A.Yamaguchi,K.Kumagai,N.Takahashi, K.Neichi,Y.Hoshi,H.Yuata et al., TOHOKU-KLM Collaboration

The TOTEM Experiment at LHC245TOTEM Collaboration

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Results of Landmine Detection with the Neutron Backscattering Method255C.P. Datema, V.R. Bom and C.W.E. van Eijk Radiation technology group, Interfaculty Reactor Institute, Delft University of technology, The Netherlands

Luminosity Monitor at LHC256Perrot Anne-Laure

A Ray-trace Type Counter Telescope for Neutron Spectrometry267G. Wakabayashi, T. Kitano, H. Yanagawa, S. Aoki, M. Matoba, T. Sakae, Y. Watanabe, K. Sagara, N. Ikeda

2Poster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Measurement Control Complex For Fissile Materials Detection382Dmitrenko V.V., Samossadny V.T., Grachev V.M., Kadilin V.V., Kaplun A.A., Kolesnikov S.V., Sokolov D.V., Ulin S.E.

High Pressure Operation of the GEM in 3He based Mixtures for Thermal Neutron Detection383T. van Vuure, C.W.E. van Eijk, F. Fraga, R.W. Hollander

Detection Sensitivity for Special Nuclear Materials with an Advanced High-Pressure Xenon Detector and Robust Fitting Analysis

437

G.Lasche, V.Dmitrenko,S.Ulin,S.Haan,S.Hustache, V.Gratchev, D.Sokolov, Z.Uteshev, K.Vlasik, R.Coldwell, and C.Cray

Development of an Ionization Chamber Shower Detector for a LHC Luminosity Monitor486P. Datte1, P.F. Manfredi1,2, J. Millaud1, L. Ratti2, V. Re3, V. Speziali2, W.C. Turner1. 1: LBNL,Berkeley CA , 2: University of Pavia - (Italy) 3 University of B

Pressure Dependence of Secondary NIR Scintillation549M. M. R. Fraga, C. C. Bueno, J. A. C. Gonçalves, F. A. F. Fraga, R. Ferreira Marques, A. J. P. L. Policarpo

High Pressure Xenon Proportional Tube Detector for Tc-99m Imaging573Jeffrey L. Lacy, Christopher S. Martin, and Lawrence P. Armendarez

Readout Responses of Inclined Strips in Position Sensitive Detectors601F. Javanmardi, G. Wakabayashi, M. Zolfaghari, A. Minuchehr, M. Matoba

Availability of Non-Linear Relationship between Position and Drift Time for Cylindrical-Type Drift Chamber

634

Hideki Tenzou, Hiroki Tanaka, Daiki Satoh, Kenji Ishibashi, Yuzuru Matsumoro, Tashushi Nakamoto

A Position Sensitive Ionization Chamber for Thermal Neutrons875B. Yu, G.J Mahler, N.A. Schaknowski and G.C. Smith Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

Scintillators1: Inorganic Scintillators 1Oral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Search of a New Scintillation Materials for Nuclear Medicine Application525M.Korzhik, P.Lecoq

Progress in the Development of LuAlO3 based Scintillators.158A. Belsky, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, C. Dujardin, N. Garnier, H. Canibano, C. Pedrini, A. Petrosyan

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A Search for a New Type of Lead Tungstate with High Light Yield468X.D. Qu, L.Y. Zhang, R.Y. Zhu (Caltech), R.H. Mao, G.H. Ren, D.Z. Shen (SIC), S.P. Stool, C.L. Woody (BNL)

Optical and Luminescence Properties of Complex Lead Oxides783I.Kamenskikh, M.Kirm, V.Kolobanov, V.Mikhailin, P.Orekhanov, I.Shpinkov, D.Spassky, A.Vasil’ev, G.Zimmerer

Irradiation-Induced Vacancy Aggregation Modes and Radiation Changes in Optical and Scintillation Properties of Insulator Crystals

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M. Ratner, B. Grinyov, Institute for Single Crystals,Kharkov, Ukraine, A. Ratner, Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine

2: Inorganic Scintillators 2Oral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Search for Indium and Thallium Based High Density Scintillators320M. Balcerzyk, Z. Brylewicz, A.Ostrowski, Z. Gontarz, M. Moszyski, W.W. Moses, M.J. Weber, S.Derenzo, M. Kapusta, J. Zachara

Experimental and Computational Studies of the Ultra-Fast Scintillators ZnO:Ga and CdS:In232S. E. Derenzo, M.K. Klintenberg, W.W. Moses, M. J. Weber, P.H. Berdahl, and D.L. Perry

Scintillation properties of LaCl3:Ce3+ crystals: Fast, Efficient and High Energy Resolution Scintillators

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E.V.D. van Loef, P. Dorenbos, C. W. E. van Eijk, K. Krämer, H. U. Güdel

Cerium-Doped Oxide Single-Crystal Films for Biological and Radiation Monitoring196Yu. Zorenko, V. Gorbenko, I. Konstankevych, M. Globus, B. Grinyov, M. Ratner

The Investigation of Counter Characteristics of Phoswich Detectors based on Organic and Non-organic Scintillators

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Ju.T.Vidaj, V.A.Tarasov, A.A.Ananenko, V.Ju.Gres

3: Medical ApplicationsOral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 16:30 - 18:00

X-Y Position Readout of a YAP:Ce Crystal Matrix Using Wavelength Shifting Fibres.349C. Damiani, G. Zavattini, G. Di Domenico, A. Del Guerra, N. Belcari, A. Vaiano

A Large Area PSPMT Based Gamma-ray Imager with Edge Reclamation103Ziock, Klaus-Peter

Detectors for High Resolution Gamma-ray Imaging Based on a Single CsI(Tl) Scintillator Coupled to an Array of Silicon Drift Detectors

499

C. Fiorini 1, A. Longoni 1, F. Perotti 2, C. Labanti 3, E. Rossi 3, P. Lechner 4, L. Strüder 5. 1: Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 2: CNR, Milano, Italy. 3 CNR, Bologna, Italy. 4 KETEK GmbH, Oberschleissheim, Germany 5 MPI München, Germany

Evaluation of Reflective Separators for Arrays of Small Crystals used with Avalanche Photodiodes

805

C.M. Pepin, R. Lecomte, D. Krus, L. Perna, W. Novak

Phantom and Animal Imaging Studies Using PLS Synchrotron X-rays613Hee-Joung Kim, Jin-O Hong, Kyu-Ho Lee, Jung Ho Je, Yeukuang Hwu , Je-Kyung Sung, Seung-Won Lee, Hyung-Sik Yoo, Department of Radiology, Medical Research Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Korea

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4: Neutron DetectionOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Study of a New Boron Loaded Plastic Scintillator347S. Normand, B. Mouanda, S. Haan, M. Louvel

A New Two-dimensional Scintillation Detector System for Small Angle Neutron Scattering Experiments

247

G. Kemmerling, N. Bussmann, U.Clemens, R. Engels, R. Reinartz, H. Rongen, J. Schelten* and K.Zwoll

Structured LiI Scintillator for Thermal Neutron Imaging441V.V. Nagarkar, S.V. Tipnis, V. Gaysinskiy, Y. Klugerman, M.R. Squillante and G. Entine

Fast Neutron and Alpha Detection Using LiBaF3 Scintillator445P. L. Reeder and S. M. Bowyer

A Small Scintillating Fiber Camera consisting of 0.25 mm Square Fibers for Space Dosimetry510K. Terasawa, T. Doke, N, Hasebe, J. Kikuchi, K. Kudo, N. Takeda and E. Yoshihira

5: Plastic ScintillatorsOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

A Role of Evanescent Light in the Characteristic Measurements of Scintillating Fibers.8Shigeharu Kobayashi and Lipika Saha, Department of Physics, Saga Univ., Japan.

The new Scintillating Fibers Detector of E835 at Fermilab216W.Baldini,D.Bettoni,R.Calabrese,E.Luppi,R.Mussa,M.Negrini,G.Stancari University of Ferrara / Ferrara INFN

Active Target with Scintillating Fibers for Hyperon-Proton Scattering Experiment750M. Ieiri for Collaboration KEK-PS E289

Testbeam Results for a Shashlik Calorimeter with Longitudinal Segmentation370CALEIDO collaboration

Large Lead Tungstate Crystals for Calorimetry257Pierre Lecomte, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich ON BEHALF OF THE CMS ECAL GROUP

6: High Energy PhysicsOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Mass Production of PWO Crystals for Electromagnetic Calorimetry:Peculiarities and Prospects

527

A.Annenkov, M.Korzhik, V.Kostylev, P.Lecoq,

Radiation Hardness of Mass Produced PWO Crystals57A.Annenkov, G.Drobychev, P.Lecoq, V.Ligun, M.Korzhik, J.-P.Peigneux, A.Singovski

A Compact and Fast Photon Detector for COSY316R.Novotny, W.Doering (2nd Physics Institute, University Giessen, Germany) V.Hejny, H.Stroeher (Institute for Nuclear Physics, KFA Juelich, Germany)

Development of a Liquid Xe Photon Detector for mu -> e gamma Decay Search Experiment at PSI

506

S. Mihara, T. Doke, Y. Kamiya, T. Mashimo, T. Mori, H. Nishiguchi, W. Ootani, S. Orito, K. Ozone, R. Sawada, S. Suzuki, G. Tejima, K. Terasawa, K. Yahagi, J. Yashima, M. Yamashita

ZEPLIN-I: a Single Phase Liquid Xe Detector for Dark Matter Search.49I.Ivaniouchenkov on behalf on the UK Dark Matter Collaboration.

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7: Other topicsOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Accuracy Aspects in Multi Phase Flow Metering using X-ray Absorption215V.R. Bom, M.C. Clarijs , C.W.E. van Eijk, Z.I. Kolar, J. Frieling, A.M. Scheers

Development of Multi-Frame Detector for Ultra-Fast Radiography with 800MeV Protons484K. Kwiatkowski, J-F. Beche, G. Hart, G.E. Hogan, F. Manfredi, J. Millaud, C.L. Morris, N.S.P. King, P.D. Pazuchanics, B. Turko, H-J. Ziock, and J.D. Zumbro, LANL and LBNL

Particle Beam and X-ray Imaging with Thin CsI Scintillating Plates39L. Cosentino, P. Finocchiaro

The "Radiation Continuity Checker", an Instrument for Monitoring Nuclear Disarmament Treaty Compliance.

782

J.C. Lund, B.A. Brunett, N.R. Hilton, L. Jones, A. Bernstein, J.M. Van Scyoc, E.E. Simpson, R.M. Roy, and D.S. Post

Development of a Low-Cost Extruded Scintillator with Co-extruded Reflector for the MINOS Experiment

753

David F. Anderson et al.

Inorganic ScintillatorsPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Status of Crystal Clear collaboration Activities on Scintillators27E. Auffray on behalf of Crystal Clear Collaboration

Energy Relaxation in Scintillators785I.A.Kamenskikh, V.N.Kolobanov, V.V.Mikhailin, I.N.Shpinkov, A.N.Vasil’ev

Track Effects in BaF2 Scintillations791R.Glukhov, C.Pedrini, A.N.Vasil’ev

Experimental TL Glow Curve Trap Parameter Determination772S.O.Troja, G.Burrafato, A.M.Gueli, F.Marzo, A.Pedalino

Small-Size Pulsed X-Ray Source for Measurements of Scintillator Decay Time Constants74P.A. Rodnyi, S.B. Mikhrin, A.N. Mishin, A.V. Sidorenko

Time Resolved Studies of Scintillation Materials with VUV Harmonic Ultra-Short Pulse Laser Source

312

P. Martin, A. Belsky, E. Constant, E. Mével and F. Salin

Precision Monitoring of Transmisison Function of Spectroscopy Channel in Experiment of Measurement of Circular Polarization of Gamma-quanta in Radiative Capture of Polarized Neutrons by Protons

136

A.Bazhenov, V. Solovei, Yu.Sobolev, I.Diakov

On a Scintielectronic Detector with Improved Energy Resolution Approaching the Ideal Limit.72S.V.Naydenov, V.D.Ryzhikov

Response of Liquid Xe Scintillator for Gamma-ray513M.Yamashita,T.Doke,K.Kawasaki,J.Kikuchi,S.Suzuki

Optically Stimulated Luminescence in KMgF3:Ce3+ , Comparison of Dosimetric Characteristics with Al2O3:C

341

N.J.M. Le Masson , A.J.J. Bos, A.J.M. Winkelman, C.W.E. van Eijk

Dependence of Scintillation Characteristics in the CsI(Tl) Crystals on Tl+ Concentrations under Electron and Alpha Particles Excitations.

339

M. M. Hamada; F.E. Costa; M.C.C. Pereira, S. Kubota

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Properties of Semiconductor Scintillators ZnSe(Te,O) and Integrated Scintielectronic Radiation Detectors Based Thereon.

70

V.D.Ryzikov, N.G.Starzhinskiy, L.P.Gal’chinetskii, P.A.Gashin, V.P.Makhniy, W.Klamra, D.N.Kozin, E.A.Danshin

Radiation Stimulated Processes in Scintillators ZnSe(Te,O) under Power Fluxes of Ionizing Radiation

71

V.D.Ryzikov, N.G.Starzhinskiy, V.M.Koshkin, L.P.Gal’chinetskii, A.A.Kist, V.V.Chernikov, E.K.Lisetskaya

Optical characterisation under irradiation of Ce3+(Tb3+)-doped phosphate scintillating glasses

856

S. Baccaro , A. Cecilia, P. Fabeni, M. Martini, J.M. Mares, E. Mihokova, M. Nikl, G.P. Pazzi, A. Vedda

Timing Properties of LuAP:Ce Studied with Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes328M. Balcerzyk, M. Moszynski, M. Kapusta, M.Szawlowski

Readout of a LaCl3(Ce3+) Scintillation Crystal with a Large Area Avalanche Photodiode807C.P. Allier, E.V.D. van Loef, P. Dorenbos, J. Huizenga, C.W.E van Eijk, K. Kramer, H. U. Gudel

Neutron DetectionPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Thin Photodiodes for a Neutron Scintillator-Silicon Well Detector127C.P. Allier, R.W. Hollander, P.M. Sarro, M. de Boer, J.B. Czirr and C.W.E van Eijk

Crystal Growth and Optical Properties of new Neutron Detectors Ce3 +: Li6Gd(Y)(BO3)3146J.P. Chaminade, O. Viraphong, F. Guillen, C. Fouassier and B.Czirr

Influence of Doping on Radiation Hardness of Scintillators Based on Lead Tungstate and Cadmium Tungstate Single Crystals

168

L.Nagornaya, A.Apanasenko ,S. Burachas ,V. Ryzhikov, I. Tupitsyna

The use of Scintillators based on Complex Heavy Oxides for Detection of Neutron Fluxes118V.Ryzhikov, L.Nagornaya, O.Zelenskaya, S.Chernikov, E. Danshin, I.Merenskaya

Simultaneous Alpha, Beta(Gamma) and Neutron Counting with Phoswich Detectors by using a Multi-parameter Technique

618

K. Yasuda, S. Usuda and H. Gunji

Multilayer Detector Of Neutrons393Samossadny V.T., Kadilin V.V., Kaplun A.A., Kolesnikov S.V.

Development of Directional Neutron Detector for Compact Fast Neutron Camera716T.Iguchi, S.Iizuka, J.Kawarabayashi, A.Uritani et al.

Study of Neutron Detection Efficiencies for Liquid Organic Scintillator up to 3 GeV635Daiki Satoh, Nobuhiro Shigyo, Hideki Tenzou, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Kenji Ishibashi

Improvement of Energy Resolution in Time-of-Flight Method for High Energy Neutron Measurement

757

N. Shigyo, Y. Iwamoto, D. Satoh, H. Kitsuki, K. Ishibashi, M. Numajiri

Deterioration of Pulse-shape Discrimination in a Liquid Organic Scintillator at High Energies751Yousuke Iwamoto, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Nobuhiro Shigyo, Kenji IshiIbashi

Observation of Scintillation Light from Interactions of Neutrons in Liquid Methane Chamber632Hiroki Tanaka, Hideki Tenzou, Daiki Satoh, Hidehiko Arima, Kenji Ishibashi

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Plastic ScintillatorsPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Simple Method of Energy Calibration for Thin Plastic Scintillators36S.Hohara, F.Saiho, J.Tanaka, S.Aoki, Y.Uozumi, M.Matoba

Radiation Distribution Sensing with Normal Optical Fiber279R. Naka, J. Kawarabayashi, A. Uritani, T. Iguchi, J. Kaneko, H. Takeuchi, T. Kakuta

High Energy Physics, calorPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

The Tile Hadronic Calorimeter for the ATLAS experiment849M. J. Varanda et al. (Tilecal/ATLAS collaboration)

Monitoring Lead Tungstate Crystals for CMS at LHC470L.Y. Zhang, K.J. Zhu, R.Y. Zhu 256-48, HEP, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Equipment and Methods for Rapid Analysis of PWO Full Size Scintillation Crystals Radiation Hardness at Mass Production

615

A.Annenkov, E.Auffray, A.Borisevitch, G.Drobychev, A.Fedorov, P.Ivankin, M.Korzhik, P.Lecoq, V.Ligun, A.Lopatik, L.matveev, R.Zouevski, J.-P.Peigneux, A.Singovski

High Stability LED Pulser for the Electromagnetic Calorimeter Monitoring616A.Fedorov, A.Lopatik, O.Missevitch, C.Seez, A.Singovski

Study of Energy Response of GSO Scintillator for the ASTRO-E Hard X-ray Detector646Y.Uchiyama,T.Takahashi,Y.Fukazawa,T.Kamae,K.Makishima,M.Tashiro,et al.

The Construction and Performance of the CsI Hodoscopic Calorimeter for the GLAST Beam Test Engineering Module

659

W. N. Johnson, J. E. Grove ( NRL, Wash DC), B. F. Phlips (GMU, Fairfax VA), J. Ampe (Praxis, Inc,, Alex. VA), Satpal Singh (NASA/GSFC), E. Ponslet (Hytec, Inc., Los Alamos, NM)

The MINOS Scintillator Calorimeter System761P. J. Dervan et al

Other topicsPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Peculiarity of the Light Collection Simulation in Heavy Scintillating Crystals90Ya.A. Berdnikov, O.Ya. Berdnikova, V.V. Grebenshchikov, I.E. Leonov, A.P. Shishlo

Long Length Scintillators for the Position Sensitive Radiation Detectors263A.Gektin, V.Gavryluk, V.Yankelevich, D.Zosim

Light Collection in Scintillation Counters. New Method and Development.120V.Yankelevych, B. Grinyov, E. Sysoeva

’Scintisphere’ - the Shape of Things to Come in Gamma-ray Spectroscopy291V.M. Chirkin, V.N. Potapov, O.P.Ivanov, S.M.Ignatov, L J Meng and D Ramsden

Improved Quantitative Gamma-ray Spectroscopy using a Standard 3" NaI Detector119L J Meng and D Ramsden

Monte Carlo Simulations of the Imaging Properties of Scintillator Soated X-ray Pixel Detectors611E. Dubaric, C. Fröjdh, M. Abdalla, H. E. Nilsson, and C. S. Petersson

A Novel Approach to the Classification of Multidetector Array Data415M. Alderighi et al.

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A System for Visualization of Radionuclude Distribution in Samples of Mountain Rock313V.E.Stepanov, O.P.Ivanov, S.M.Ignatov, and A.E.Bahur

Measurements of the Low-Level Gamma Activity in the Air841A. Vitanova, N. Chikov, O. Penchev, N. Janeva, I. Penev, J. Stamenov,B. Damjanov

A Dip Detector for In Situ Measuring of Cs-137 Specific Soil Activity Profiles307V.N. Potapov, O.P.Ivanov, V.M. Chirkin and S.M. Ignatov

Simulation of Gamma-Ray Radar Performance with different Position Sensitive Detectors512O.P.Ivanov, V.N.Potapov, V.E.Stepanov and S.M.Ignatov

Simulation of Real-Time Flaw Detecting Systems Performance352V.N.Potapov, O.P.Ivanov, V.E.Stepanov and S.M.Ignatov

Functioning of the CARTOGAM Portable Gamma Camera in a Photon Counting Mode332O. Gal, B. Dessus, F. Jean, F. Lainé, C. Lévêque

Development of a Continuous Radon Concentration Monitoring System in Underground Soil29*Seiichi Yamamoto, *Kazumasa Tarutani, *Koutaro Yamasoto, **Dadong Iskandar and **Takao Iida

Complex for Experimental Investigations Nuclear Processes Going in the Laser Produced Plasma

75

Vadim S. Belyaev and Anatoly P. Matafonov

Scintillating Fiber-based Beam Profiler for the Jefferson Lab Tagged Photon Beam458F.J. Barbosa, A. Freyberger, W. Gunning, B. Kross, S. Majewski, B. Mecking, E.S. Smith, M. Taylor, J. Wilson, C. Zorn

A Technique to Produce the Mirrors for the AUGER Observatory378R.Arcidiacono, S. Argiro',G.Borreani,N.Cartiglia ,R.Cester,F.Daudo,A.de Capoa, F.Marchetto,D.Maurizio, E.Menichetti,N.Pastrone

The Camera of the Auger Fluorescence Detector528C. Aramo et al.

Photodetectors1: New DetectorsOral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 11:00 - 12:30

An Innovative Approach to Multiparticle Three-Dimensional Imaging35D. Zajfman, O. Heber, D. Strasser

New Concept of a High Efficiency Photosensor With a Reflective Photocathode99Daniel Ferenc, University of California, Davis

The Development of Flat Panel PMT140Hiroyuki Kyushima, Hideki Shimoi, Akira Atsumi, Yuji Yoshizawa Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Electron Tube Center, Toyooka, Japan, 438-0193

A Comparative Study of Different Microstrip Plate Geometries for CsI-based UV Photosensors Working in a Reflective Mode

539

D.S.A.P. Freitas, J.F.C.A. Veloso, J.M.F. dos Santos and C.A.N. Conde

Sealed Gas UV-Photon Detector with Multi-GEM Amplification649A. Breskin, A. Buzulutskov, R. Chechik, E. Shefer, B. K. Singh

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2: APDsOral Session18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Comparative Study of Avalanche Photodiodes with Different Structure in Scintillation Detection

113

M. Moszynski, M. Kapusta, M. Balcerzyk, M. Szawlowski, D. Wolski, I. Wegrzecka, M. Wegrzecki

Large Area APDs and Monolithic APD Arrays134K.S. Shah, R. Farrell, R. Grazioso, and L. Cirignano RMD, Inc., 44 Hunt Street, Watertown, MA 02472, USA

Development of Novel Photodiodes as a Photon Counter270T. Edamura, S. Furuta, N. Hasebe, M. Higuchi, M. Ishiwata, H. Kan, R. Kikuchi, T. Masumura, T. Matsuyama, T. Miyachi, I. Nakamura, T. Sugawara, T. Tazawa and C. Tezuka

Microcell Si Avalanche Photodiode with Limited Geiger Mode Gain (MRS Structure)504G.B. Bondarenko, P.Zh. Buzhan, V.M. Golovin

Development of a Novel Large-Area Planar-Construction Avalanche Photodiode554Ernesto Gramsch, R. E. Avila and J. Ferrer

3: Vacuum Devices and ApplicationsOral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Avalanche Photodiodes for the CMS Lead-Tungstate Calorimeter.133R. Rusack, The University of Minnesota, for the CMS collaboration

UV Radiation Resistance and Solar Blindness of CsI and KBr Photocathodes749A.S.Tremsin, O.H.W.Siegmund

Characterization of Multi-Pixel PMTs778MINOS Collaboration

An Optical Properties Study of the New Hemispherical PMTs from Electron Tubes.781M.Martinez, A.Ostankov, D.Paneque - IFAE, Barcelona, Spain. E.Lorenz, R.Mirzoyan - MPI, Munich, Germany.

all postersPoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Capacitively Coupled Delay-Line anode for Image Intensifiers and Open-face MCP Detectors33U. Spillmann, O. Jagutzki, U. Meyer, L. Spielberger, K. Ullmann-Pleger and H. Schmidt-Böcking

Lens-based Light-Collectors for the HERA-B RICH81D. Broemmelsiek, R.~Eckmann, M.~Ispirian, J.~McGill, S.~Karabekyan, J.~Rosen and R.F.~Schwitters

New Continuous Light Method for Excess Noise Measurements on APD’s153M.Martinez, A.Ostankov, T.Schweizer

Spectral Characterisation of a Blue-enhanced Silicon Photodetector239M.L.F. Lerch, Member, IEEE, A.B. Rosenfeld, Senior Member, IEEE, P.E. Simmonds, G. Taylor, S. Meikle, Member, IEEE, V. Perevertailo

Focusing in a FED Incorporated with a Microchannel Plate286Sunghwan Jin, Yongsoo Choi, Taewon Jeong, SeGi Yu, Junghee Lee, Jungna Heo, Whikun Yi, and Jongmin Kim NCRI, Center for Electron Emission Source, Display Lab. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

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New Fabrication of Microchannel Plate287Whikun Yi, , Sunghwan Jin, Taewon Jeong, Junghee Lee, SeGi Yu, and Jongmin Kim

Improvement of Continuous Position Sensitive Diode Performances and Associated Electronics

416

M. Solal*, Y.Charon**, L.Menard**, S. Pitre*, P.Lanièce**, R.Mastrippolito*, L.Valentin**. *Inst. de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay,** Université Paris 7

Detection of Scintillation of Liquid Xenon with a LAAPD.521V.N.Solovov, V.Chepel, M.I.Lopes, R.Ferreira Marques and A.J.P.L.Policarpo

Evaluation of new 5 inch Photomultiplier for use in Threshold Cerenkov Detectors with Aerogel Radiator

522

S.O. Flyckt, B. Wojtsekhowski, C. Zorn

Spatially Dependent Response of Thick and Large Area PIN Diode developed for ASTRO-E Hard X-ray Detector

604

Masahiko Sughio, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Kazuo Makishima, Tadayuki Takahashi, Toshio Murakami, Makoto Tashiro, Yasushi Fukazawa

Cross Strip Anode Imaging Readouts for Microchannel Plate Detectors758O. Siegmund, A, Tremsin, J. Vallerga and J.Hull

Radiation Hardness of Fine-mesh Phototriodes for CMS Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter.

801

Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute - Central Research Institute Electron - S.I.Vavilov State Optical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Novel Detector TechnologiesNovel Detector TechnologiesOral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Efficiency of Segmented HpGe Gamma-ray Detectors: Design Criteria for Pulse Shape Analysis

37

O.Wieland, F.Camera, B.Million, G.Ripamonti, A.Geraci

Real-time Flat Panel Pixel Imaging System in x-ray Detection308Sylvie Chapuy (1,4), Zlatko Dimcovski(1,4), Marc Pachoud,(3), François Terrier(2), Jean-François Valley(3), Francis R. Verdun (3)

A Single-Photon-Counting Detector for CT241R. Muellerwiebus, R. Sinkus, R. Proksa

Gamma Ray Energy Measurement using the Multiple Compton Technique449R.A. Kroeger, W.N. Johnson, J.D. Kurfess, B.F. Phlips, E.A. Wulf

HgI2 Polycrystalline Films for Digital X-Ray Imagers465J.S. Iwanczyk, B.E Patt, C.R. Tull, L.R. MacDonald, N. Skinner, L. Fornaro

all postersPoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Development of Ti/Au and Hf/Au Thermometers for Cryogenic Detectors12M.Barucci, E.Gottardi, I.Peroni, A.Peruzzi and G.Ventura

A Miniaturized Solid State Detection System for X-rays Spectrometry based on Compton Scattering

130

G.Baldazzi,E.Bergamini,P.Ferrari,T.Bernardi,P.L.Rossi, G.Testoni,R.Zannoli

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Application of Prompt Luminescence from an Imaging Plate for Heavy Particle Detector182S. Gunji, H. Sakurai, F.Tokanai, K. Morimoto, N. Sato, N. Yasuda, and E. Inui

Development of Hydrophones for Detecting High-Energy Reactions in Water269S. Goto, N. Hasebe, M. Higuchi, F. Hinode, M. Ishiwata, R. Kikuchi, T. Masumura, T. Matsuyama, T. Miyachi, I. Nakamura, M. Oyamada, M. Sato,Y. Tazawa and C. Tezuka

A New Detection System with Polycapillary Conic Collimator for High-Localized Analysis of X-ray Fluorescence Emission

496

C. Fiorini, A. Longoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; A. Bjeoumikhov, IfG-Institut für Gerätebau GmbH, Berlin

Novel Remote Sensor using an Imaging Plate and Wavelength Shifting Fibers for Dosimetry of Gamma-rays and Neutrons

729

M. Katagiri, K. Sakasai, M. Mizumoto,,T. Nakamura, K. Toh, H. Takahashi and M. Nakazawa

Read-out Electronics and Signal Processing1: Radiation Tolerant CircuitsOral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Single Event Upset Studies of a High Speed Digital Optical Data Link138M-L. Andrieux, J. Lundquist, B. Dinkespiler, G. Evans, L. Gallin-Martel, M. Pearce, F. Rethore, R. Stroynowski, J. Ye

G-Link and Gigabit Ethernet Compliant Serializer for LHC Data Transmission155P. Moreira, T. Toifl, A. Marchioro, J. Christiansen, G. Cervelli and E. Bij

A Large Dynamic Range Radiation Tolerant Analog Memory in a Quarter Micron CMOS Technology

265

G. Anelli, F. Anghinolfi, A. Rivetti CERN, Geneva

A Low-Power 10 bit Charge Redistribution ADC in a 0.25 um CMOS: Design Considerations and Test Results

299

A. Rivetti, G. Anelli, F. Anghinolfi, G. Mazza, F. Rotondo

Radiation-hardness of VA1 with Sub-micron Process Technology440M. Yokoyama et al.

2: Signal ProcessingOral Session18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 16:30 - 18:00

An Algorithm for 3-D Localization of Multiple Pulses in Large-Volume Segmented HPGe Detectors

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E. Gatti, G. Casati, A. Geraci, S. Riboldi, G. Ripamonti - Politecnico di Milano; F. Camera, B. Million - Università di Milano e INFN Sezione di Milano

The Analog Signal Processing System for the Auger Fluorescence Detector Prototype176S.Argiro, D.V.Camin,P. Cattaneo, M. Destro, R.Fonte,R.Gariboldi, V.Grassi, M.Lapolla, P.Manfredi,E.Menichetti,M.Nicotra, P.Privitera,L.Ratti, V.Re, P.Trapani

Simultaneous Ballistic Deficit Immunity and Resilience to Parallel Noise Sources: A New Pulse Shaping Technique

219

L. Fabris, F.S. Goulding, N.W. Madden

How to Optimize ROTOR Processors164A. Pullia, E. Gatti, A. Longoni

An Adaptive Digital Filter for High-rate, High-resolution Gamma Spectrometry833G. P. Westphal

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3: Low Noise CircuitsOral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Development of a Fully Integrated Readout System for High Counting Rate Position Sensitive Measurements of X-Ray Using Silicon Strip Detectors.

250

P. Grybos, W. Dabrowski

Feasibility of a Fully-Integrated HEMT based Charge Amplifier: Design and Experiment211A.Longoni, C.Guazzoni, C.Arnaboldi, G.Pessina

Integrated Low Noise, Low Power, Fast Charge-Sensitive Preamplifier for Avalanche Photodiodes in JFET-CMOS-Technology

703

B.J. Pichler, W. Pimpl, W. Buttler, G. Boening, M. Rafecas, E. Lorenz, S.I. Ziegler

Experimental Behaviour of a Two-chips Charge Amplifier for high Stability X-ray Spectroscopy Systems

612

M.Sampietro, H.Cruciata, C.Guazzoni, P.Lechner

4: Circuits for Medical ApplicationsOral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Real-time, Programmable, Digital Signal-processing Electronics for Extracting the Information from a Detector Module for Multi-modality PET/SPECT/CT Scanners.

567

Dario B. Crosetto

Performance Analysis of Phoswich/APD Detectors and Low Noise CMOS Preamplifiers for High Resolution PET Systems

685

R. Lecomte, C.M. Pepin, M.D. Lepage, J.-F. Pratte, D.M. Binkley

Analog ASICs for a Depth of Interaction (DOI) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Detector Module

106

Haiming Yu, Robert Miyaoka and Tom Lewellen

PETRIC - A Positon Emission Tomography Readout IC233M. Pedrali-Noy, W.W. Moses, E.Mandelli et al, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

5: Pixel ReadoutOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

XPAD, a New Read-out Pixel Chip for X-ray Counting207L. Blanquart, I. Valin, C. Trouilleau, S. Meillere, L. Crest

Pixel level Analog-to-Digital Converters for Hybrid Pixel Detectors with Energy Sensitivity167David San Segundo Bello, Bram Nauta, Jan Visschers

preFPIX2: Architecture and Results432J. Hoff, A. Mekkaoui, D. Christian, S. Zimmerman, G. Cancelo, Y. Yarema

An 8x8 Pixel IC for X-ray Spectroscopy560B. Krieger, K. Ewell, B. Ludewigt, M. Maier, D. Markovic, O. Milgrome, and Y. J. Wang

6: Detector Readout Electronics I (*)Oral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

The APV25 0.25µm CMOS Readout Chip for the CMS Tracker284G. Hall, M. French, K. Kloukinas, N. Bacchetta, et al.

Spectroscopic Technique for Optimal P/Z Setting in Gamma-ray Detection41A. Pullia, R. Grimoldi

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Implementation of the ASDBLR ATLAS TRT Straw Tube Readout ASIC in DMILL Technology755N. Dressnandt, N. Lam, F.M. Newcomer, R.P. VanBerg, H.H. Williams

Automated Radioisotope Identification Using Fuzzy Logic and Portable CZT Detectors721W. S. Murray, K. B. Butterfield, and B. Baird Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545

7: Detector Readout Electronics IIOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Custom Integrated Front-end Circuit for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter379Jean-Pierre Walder, Herve Mathez, Patrick Pangaud : Institut de physique nucleaire de lyon (IN2P3 CNRS UCBL) Jean-Marie Bussat, Peter Denes : Princeton University

Light-to-Light Readout System of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter369P. Denes et al, Princeton University, JP Walder et al, IPN Lyon, W. Lustermann et al, ETH Zurich

A Linear Laser Driver Array for Optical Transmission in the LHC Experiments398Giovanni Cervelli, Alessandro Marchioro, Paulo Moreira, and Francois Vasey CERN, EP Division, CH 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

The Port Card for the Silicon Vertex Detector Upgrade of the Collider Detector at Fermilab450J. Andresen, M. Bishai, G. Cancelo, G. Derylo, R. Kwarciany, A. Shenai, K. Treptow, S. Zimmermann (Fermilab); Y. Gotra, P. Shepard (University of Pittsburgh); R. Ely, M. Garcia-Sciveres, J. Perez (LBNL)

8: Timing & High Rate CircuitsOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 16:30 - 18:00

A Flexible Multi-Channel High-Resolution Time-to-Digital Converter ASIC292J. Christiansen, S. Debieux, A. Marchioro, P. Moreira, M. Mota, V. Ryjov

The D0 Calorimeter Upgrade152The D0 Collaboration, presented by H.Lebbolo

An MWPC Readout Chip for High Rate Environment109H.Kano, C.Fukunaga (Tokyo Metropolitan University), M.Ikeno, O.Sasaki (National Organization of High Energy Accelerator Physics, KEK), K.Sato, S.Matsuura (ICEPP,University of Tokyo)

Progress in Development of DTMROC99 Time Measurement Readout Chip for the ATLAS TRT.

754

Anghinolfi, VanBerg, Dressnandt, Ekenberg, Farthouat, Keener, Lam, Lamarra, Mann, Newcomer, Ryjov, Soderberg, Szczygiel, H.H. Williams

Signal ProcessingPoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Driving Spectral Resolution to the Noise Limit in Semiconductor Gamma Detector Arrays10Uri Lachish

Real-time Digital Processing for Radiation Measurement124Dautremer, Barat, Laribière, Lefevre, Trama

Modular Digital Pulse Processor for TOF-MS Technique, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Other Applications

135

A. Bazhenov, V. Solovei, L. Vikharev V. Treuschenko

Pulse Recording by Free-Running Sampling177M.Streun, G.Brandenburg, H.Larue, K.Ziemons, E.Zimmermann, and H.Halling

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Digital Signal Processing and Algorithms for Gamma-Ray Tracking426W. Gast, R.M. Lieder, L. Mihailescu, M.J. Rossewij, A. Georgiev , and J. Stein

Clustering Method to Process Signals from Semiconductor Detectors493L.Zhang, H.Takahashi, D.Fukuda, M.Nakazawa

Application of the Digital Pulse Processing Technique to Proportional Counters548P.C.P.S. Simões and J.M.F. dos Santos

Digital Waveform Analysis for 3-He Ion Chamber600J. Kawarabayashi, M. P. Mardiyanto, A. Uritani and T. Iguchi, Nagoya University; J. Kaneko and H. Takeuchi, JAERI

Low Noise CircuitsPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A "Cold" Discharge Mechanism for Low-Noise Fast Charge Amplifiers42A. Pullia, R. Bassini, C. Boiano, S. Brambilla

A Novel Dual-Mode Front-End Stage for Solid State Detector Applications173Nikos Haralabidis

Low Noise p-channel JFETs for X-ray Spectroscopy with Silicon Drift Detectors362J. Sonsky, R. Koornneef, J. Huizenga, L. Nanver, G.W. Lubking, R.W. Hollander, C.W.E. van Eijk

Detector Readout ElectronicsPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

NEMO-3 Calorimeter Electronics56B. Lavigne, L.A.L.- 0RSAY, E J. Lebris, A. Richard, I.P.N. - ORSAY -FRANCE

Development of Front-end Electronics for the Belle SVD Upgrade231G. Varner for the Belle SVD Group and Integrated Detectors & Electronics, AS

A 16 channel ASIC for Silicon Drift Chamber Readout283C. Labanti, C. Fiorini, A. Longoni, A. Mauri, F. Perotti, E. Rossi

Front-end Electro-optical Interfaces for CMS HCAL423R. Ruchti, et al, CMS HCAL Readout Box Collaboration (Notre Dame, Fermilab, Mississippi, Florida State, Illinois at Chicago, Minnesota, Iowa)

Front-End Electronics fo Spectroscopy Applications (FESA) IC436M. Clajus, T.O. Tumer, G.J. Visser, S. Yin, NOVA R&D, Inc., P. D. Willson, U.S. Army ARDEC, and D.G. Maeding, Innovative Design

A front-end Electronics Module for MultigapResistive Plate Chamber(MRPC)498Hansang Lim, Taeyeon Lee, Sungryul Hong, Byungsik Kang, Jaehong Park

Acquisition and Processing of Multiparametric Information from a Pixel Matrix Associated with a Microchannel Plate

102

P.F. Manfredi, J.E. Millaud, V.V. Souchkov

Performance of a New MCM-D Technology Front-End Digital Readout796P. Cluzel, R. Della-Negra, M. Goyot, M. Miguet, A. Savoy-Navarro

Evaluation of an X-ray Area Detector based on a Logarithmic CMOS Camera846C.Ponchut

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Timing and High rate CircuitsPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Time-Of_Flight System-on-a-Chip used in the NASA IMAGE/HENA Space Instrumentation64Nick Pascahalidis, N. Stamatopoulos C. Karadamoglou G. Kottaras V. Paschalidis E. Sarris B. Andrews, D. McEntire, E. Keath, S. Jaskulek, R. McNutt Johns Hopkins University/APL-Demokritos U. of Thrace

A New Front-end Electronics Chain for Timing RPCs446A.Blanco, N.Carolino, P.Fonte, R. Ferreira-Marques, A.Gobbi, A.Policarpo

Miscellaneous SubjectsPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Current Monitor System on a High-Voltage Level for a Cylindrical Drift Chamber21N. Matsuoka, K. Nagayama and Y. Yokota

A FASTCAMAC Charge Integrating Analog to Digital Converter63Dr. Richard Sumner, Cheesecote Mountain Consultants 24 Halley Drive, Pomona, NY 10970

Thermal Design and Tests for the CMS HCAL Readout Box.448B. Baumbaugh, D. Karmgard, Q. Lu, J. Marchant, R. Ruchti, University of Notre Dame, A. Baumbaugh, S. Los, A. Ronzhin, FermiLab, M. Booke, J. Reidy, University of Mississippi.

Count Rate Statistics for Drift Detectors592Philip J. Pietraski Lars R. Furenlid

Transputer to PCI Bus Link Module with One Million Programmable Logic Gates661S.Dhawan,D.Grollman,S.Xu

Control systemsall postersPoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Development of Fluorocarbon Evaporative Cooling Recirculators and Controls for the ATLAS Inner Silicon Tracker

272

C. Bayer, M. Bosteels, P. Bonneau, H. Burckhart, D. Cragg, R. English, G. Hallewell, B. Hallgren, S. Kersten, P. Kind, K. Langedrag, S. Lindsay, M. Merkel, S. Stapnes, J. Thadome, V. Vacek

The Control System for the CMS Tracker275F.Drouhin, P.Figueiredo, A.Furtjes, C.Ljuslin, C.Maazouzi, A.Marchioro, N.Marinelli, C.Paillard, P.Siegrist, A.Tsirou, P.G.Verdini, P.Walsham, A.Zghiche

Implementation of a Serial Protocol for the Liquid Argon Atlas Calorimeter (SPAC)794F.Hubaut, B.Laforge, O.Le Dortz, D.Martin, Ph. Schwemling

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NSS Instrumentation Systems

Cherenkov and Transition Radiation Detectors(*)Oral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Construction of an End-Cap Module Prototype for the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker6H. Danielsson (for the ATLAS TRT collaboration)

Prototype Tests for the ALICE TRD451A. Andronic et al., ALICE TRD Collaboration

The HERA-B RICH82I. Arinyo et al.

Operation of the Cherenkov Detector (DIRC) of BABAR at High Luminosity876Stefan Spanier et al., representing DIRC group

Testbeam Results on Particle Identification with Aerogel used as RICH Radiator.375M.Alemi, T.Bellunato, M.Calvi, C.Matteuzzi, P.Negri, M.Paganoni University of Milano-Bicocca and INFN-Milano

The Fluorescence Detector Prototype for the Pierre Auger Project: Mechanical Structure, Optical System and Filter

503

G. Borreani, N. Cartiglia, R. Cester, F. Daudo, A. de Capoa, M.A. Leigui de Oliveira, F. Marchetto, D. Maurizio, E. Menichetti, N. Pastrone; INFN Torino

all postersPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Pressurized Gas Cherenkov Detector150S.Chinomi, Y.Kurihara, E.Nakano, T.Ohshima, K.Sakaue, S.Saito, T.Takahashi, Y.Teramoto and S.Uno

The Mainz A4 Lead Fluoride Calorimeter655Frank. E. Maas et al.

Trigger and Data Acquisition1: Trigger Systems #1Oral Session

18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 11:00 - 12:30

The Muon Pretrigger System of the HERA-B Experiment678M.Böcker,M.Adams,P.Bechtle,P.Buchholz,C.Cruse,U.Husemann,E.Klaus,N.Koch,M.Kolander,I.Kolotaev,H.Riege,J.Schütt,B.Schwenninger,R.van Staa, D.Wegener

The Level-2 Muon Trigger at D0454Michael Fortner, Arthur Maciel, Northern Illinois University; Hal Evans, Burair Kothari, Columbia University; Sergei Uzuyan, ITEP, Russia

Design and Performance of the Level 1 Calorimeter Trigger for the BaBar Detector116P.D. Dauncey et al.

The CLEO-III Trigger: Analog and Digital Calorimetry575C. Bebek, T.J. Bergfeld, J.A. Ernst, G.D. Gollin, M.J. Haney, R.M. Hans, E.E. Johnson, C.L. Plager, C. Sedlack, M.A. Selen, C.R. Strohman, J.B. Williams

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A Novel Simulation and Verification Approach in an ASIC Design Process368D. Husmann, M. Keller, K. Mahboubi, U. Pfeiffer, C. Schumacher

2: Trigger Systems #2 (*)Oral Session18’ per presentationTuesday 17 October, 16:30 - 18:00

The CLEO-III Trigger: Axial and Stereo Tracking576T.J. Bergfeld, J.A. Ernst, G.D. Gollin, M.J. Haney, R.M. Hans, E.E. Johnson, C. L. Plager, C. Sedlack, M.A. Selen, J. B. Williams

An Impact Parameter Trigger for the D0 Experiment474Wendy Taylor for the D0 Collaboration, SUNY, Stony Brook

A Fast High Resolution Track Trigger for the H1 Collaboration523A.Baird, H.C.Schultz-Coulon, E.Elsen, Y.H.Fleming, C.Grab, J.Naumann, P.R.Newman, C.Niebuhr, D.Sankey, A.Schoening, C.Wissing

Level 1 Central and Forward Tracking Trigger for the D0 Upgrade597Bryan R. Smith and Mrinmoy Bhattacharjee for the D0 Collaboration

The Na48 Trigger Supervisor2R. Arcidiacono, G.Govi, E. Menichetti et al.

The CLEO-III Trigger: Level 1 Decision and Gating578T.J. Bergfeld, J.A. Ernst, G.D. Gollin, M.J. Haney, R.M. Hans, E.E. Johnson, C. L. Plager, C. Sedlack, M.A. Selen, J. B. Williams

3: Data Acquisition Systems #1Oral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Implementation of a Parallel Virtual Machine in the Data Acquisition System of a High Resolution Animal PET

873

G. Boening, B.J. Pichler, R. Rafecas, E. Lorenz, S.I. Ziegler

A New Read-out System for an Imaging Pixel Detector154G. Bardelloni, E. Bertolucci, A.L.J. Boerkamp, D. Calvet, M. Conti, M. Maiorino, P. Russo, J.L. Visschers

Switchless Event Building Farm for the BELLE Data Acquisition System603M. Nakao, R. Itoh, S.Y. Suzuki, M. Yamauchi, E. Won, H.J. Kim, H.W. Kim and S. Yanaka

‘High Speed DAQ System for the HyperCP Experiment (FNAL E871)793C. G. White et al. (for the HyperCP Collaboration)

The GREAT Triggerless Total Data Readout Method361I.H.Lazarus, P.A.Butler, P.J.Coleman-Smith, J.R.Cresswell, S.C.Letts , R.D.Page, V.F.E Pucknell, J.Simpson, J.Thornhill

4: Data Acquisition Systems #2Oral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 16:30 - 18:00

DAQ System for LEPS Experiment174Y. Sugaya, M. Nomachi and LEPS collaboration

Error Handling for the CDF Silicon Vertex Tracker302M.Bari,S.Belforte,A.Cerri,M.Dell’Orso,S.Donati,S.Galeotti, P.Giannetti,F.Morsani,G.Punzi,L.Ristori,F.Spinella,A.M.Zanetti

A Modular VME or IBM PC based Data Acquisition System for Multi-modality PET/SPECT/CT Scanners of Different Sizes/resolution.

563

Dario B. Crosetto

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A List-Mode Time Stamping Data Acquisition Module Prototype for Coincidence Measurements

596

Murat K. Khamzin and John D. Valentine

The ANTARES Offshore Data Acquisition: A Highly Distributed, Embedded and COTS-based System

802

Shebli Anvar, Hervé Le Provost, Frédéric Louis

5: Trigger & Data Acquisition SystemsOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

THE ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter ReadOut Driver System631F. Henry-Couannier on behalf of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Collaboration

Ethernet Network-Based DAQ and Smart Sensors for the Neutrino Long Base Line OPERA Experiment

878

S. Gardien, C. Girerd, S. Katsanevas, J. Marteau

HERA-B Data Acquisition System395J.M.Hernandez, D.Ressing, V.Rybnikov, F.Sanchez, G.Wagner

Concept of a Software Trigger for an Experiment at the TESLA Linear Collider784G.Eckerlin, R.Gerhards, R.Heuer, P. Le Du, G.Quast

The ATLAS Level-2 Trigger Pilot Project809ATLAS Level-2 Groups

Trigger SystemsPoster SessionTuesday 17 October, 15:00 - 16:30

HERA-B High-Pt Trigger.58V.Balagura, I.Belyaev, R.Chistov, M.Danilov, V.Eiges, R.Mizuk, V.Popov, I.Tichomirov.

The Fast Tracker Processor for Hadronic Collider Triggers117M.G.Bagliesi, A.Bardi, R.Carosi, M.Dell'Orso, M.D'Onofrio, P.Giannetti, G.Iannaccone, F.Morsani, M.Pietri, G.Varotto

A Programmable Nanosecond Digital Delay and Trigger System236J.P.Martin and K.RAgan

A Fast Programmable Trigger System for the WASA Experiment391P. Marciniewski, K. Fransson, L. Gustafsson, H. Calen

The CLEO-III Trigger: Design Methodology Case Study579C. Bebek, T.J. Bergfeld, J.A. Ernst, G.D. Gollin, M.J. Haney, R.M. Hans, E.E. Johnson, C.L. Plager, C. Sedlack, M.A. Selen, C.R. Strohman, J.B. Williams

Data AcquisitionPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Compact Data Acquisition System for Multi-detectors: Use of Time encoding for both Time and Energy

329

L.Pinot, R.Sellem, JC. Cuzon, A. Lesage, R. Mastrippolito, L. Valentin

A Portable Dual-input Multichannel Analyzer with Large Onboard Memory for Dual Isotope Diagnostic Techniques,

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A. Fazzi, L. Magnoni, L. Tristano, V. Varoli Politecnico di Milano Dip. Ing. Nucleare Italy

A Very Low-Cost Portable Multichannel Analyzer643João M. Cardoso, Vitor Amorim, Rui Bastos, Rui Madeira, J. Basílio Simões, Carlos M. B. A. Correia

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A Data Acquisition System for a Ring Compton Camera689C.H. Hua, J.W. LeBlanc, N.H. Clinthorne, W.L. Rogers

FPGA/DSP-based Coincidence Unit and Data Acquisition System for the Sherbrooke Animal PET Scanner

773

M.D. Lepage, G. Léger, J. Cadorette, S. Rodrigue, R. Lecomte

A Compact Back-End Module for High-Rate Multielement X-Ray Spectrometers and Imagers40A. Pullia, P. Magni, A. Longoni

Data Acquisition System for the Dubna Gas Filled Recoil Separator5Yu.S.Tsyganov,V.G.Subbotin,A.M.Sukhov,A.N.Polyakov,S.N.Iliev

A Flexible Data Acquisition Board for Nuclear Detectors160R. Engels, U.Clemens, H. Rongen, N. Bussmann, G. Kemmerling, R. Reinartz and J. Schelten*

An Upgraded Data Acquisition System for the Balloon-Borne Liquid Xenon Gamma-Ray Imaging Telescope (LXeGRIT)

848

E. Aprile, A. Curioni, V. Egorov, K.-L. Giboni, U. Oberlack, S. Ventura

The New GANIL Data Acquisition System859A. Boujrad, F. Saillant

Innovative Modular High-Speed Data Acquisition Architecture690Custódio F. M. Loureiro, Carlos M. B. A. Correia Departamento de Física, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004-516 Coimbra, Portugal

A Design Framework for Data Acquisition and Triggering Systems in High Energy Physics Experiments

790

Shebli Anvar, François Terrier

Trigger and Data AcquisitionPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Commodity Multi-processor Systems in the ATLAS Level-2 Trigger92M.Abolins, R.Blair, R.Bock, A.Bogaerts, J.Dawson, Y.Ermoline, R.Hauser, A.Kugel, R.Lay, M.Muller, K.-H.Noffz, B.Pope, J.Schlereth, P.Werner

ATLAS Level-2 (Inner Detector) B-Physics Trigger Algorithms performed on the Hybrid FPGA/CPU Processor System ATLANTIS

814

C. Hinkelbein, A. Kugel, R. Maenner, M. Mueller, H. Simmler, H. Singpiel

SCI Evaluation in Multinode Environments for Computing and Data Processing Applications115Enrique Sanchis et al.

A Two-level Fanout system for the CDF Silicon Vertex Tracker298A. Bardi,M. Bari,S. Belforte,A. Cerri,M. Dell'Orso,S. Donati, S.Galeotti, P.Giannetti,C. Magazzu',F. Morsani,G. Punzi,L. Ristori,F.Spinella, A. M. Zanetti

A High-Speed Front End Data Processor for the Shower Maximum Detector of the CDF Upgrade

358

K. Byrun, J. W. Dawson, G. Drake, W. N. Haberichter, S. Kuhlmann, J. Proudfoot, and J. Schlereth, Argonne National Laboratory

The Data Organizer: a High Traffic Node for Tracking Detector Data514M.G.Bagliesi, A.Bardi, R.Carosi, M.Dell'Orso, P.Giannetti, F.Morsani, M.Pietri, G. Varotto

A Pipeline of Associative Memory Boards for Track Finding516M.G.Bagliesi, A.Bardi, R.Carosi, M.Dell'Orso, P.Giannetti, G.Iannaccone, F.Morsani, M.Pietri, G. Varotto

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Detector Characterization and Control System: The PICASSO Project405N. Boukhira, I. Boussaroque, R. Gornea, M. Di Marco, L. Lessard, J.P. Martin, J. Vinet and V. Zacek

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MIC Instrumentation Systems and Medical Imaging Technique

Attenuation and Scatter Correction Techniques1Oral Session

15’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 13:30 - 15:00

Segmented Attenuation Map Reconstruction from Incomplete Transmission Data66Hiroyuki Kudo and Hiroki Nakamura

A Dedicated ML-Algorithm for Non-Attenuation Corrected PET Whole Body Images.348J. Nuyts, S. Stroobants, P. Dupont, S. Vleugels, P. Flamen, L. Mortelmans

The Impact of Noisy Attenuation Maps and Patient Motion on Human-Observer Performance at Ga-67 Lesion Detection in SPECT

447

R.G. Wells, H.C. Gifford, P.H. Pretorius, and M.A. King

Respective Importance of Scatter, Attenuation, Collimator Response and Partial Volume Effect Corrections for Accurate Quantification in 123I Dopamine Receptor Imaging

645

I. Buvat, M. Soret, S. Hapdey, C. Riddell, H. Benali, R. Di Paol

Dual Isotope (In-111/Tc-99m) SPECT: Noise Reduction with an Analytic Attenuation Correction Method

657

B. C. Penney, C.-K. Kao, X. Pan, and D. Bidani

Design and Performance of Collimated Coincidence Point Sources for Simultaneous Transmission Measurements in 3D PET

735

C.C. Watson, L. Eriksson, M.E. Casey, W.F. Jones, J.C. Moyers, A. Van Lingen, B. Bendriem, R. Nutt

2Oral Session15’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 9:00 - 10:30

Efficient Photon Cross-Talk Calculation in SPECT79Hugo W. A. M. de Jong and Freek J. Beekman

Adaptive Correction of Scatter and Random Events for 3D Backprojected PET Data95A. J. Reader, S. Zhao, P. J. Julyan, D. L. Hastings, J. Zweit

Evaluation of Model-Based Scatter Correction Accuracy Using Monte Carlo Calculated Phantom Inputs

565

S.D. Wollenweber, S.G. Kohlmyer, T.K. Lewellen

Optimization and Evaluation of Reconstruction-Based Compensation Methods in Myocardial Perfusion SPECT using the Channelized Hotelling Observer

593

E.C. Frey(1,2), K.J. LaCroix(1), and B.M.W. Tsui(1) (1) Department of Biomedical Engineering and (2) Department of Radiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

A New Scatter Compensation Method for Ga-67 Imaging Using Artificial Neural Networks644G. El Fakhri, S.C. Moore, P. Maksud

Performance Analysis of an Improved Accelerated Monte Carlo PET Simulation and Portable 3-D Scatter Correction

694

C.H.Holdsworth, C.S.Levin,M.Dahlbom, E.J.Hoffman

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1Poster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A New Approach to SPECT Attenuation Correction without Transmission Measurements68Hiroyuki Kudo and Hiroki Nakamura

Attenuation Corrections For Coincidence Studies By Low Energy Stationary Line Source85V. Rappoport, P. Vernon, F. Anstett

Comparing the Effects of Standard and Segmented Attenuation Correction229TK Lewellen, BL Lewellen, DA Mankoff, SG Kohlmyer

Attenuation Correction using Consistency Conditions and a 3D Transformation321Andrew Bromiley, Andrew Welch, Felice Chilcott, Smruti Waikar, Stuart Craib, Maurice Dodd, Peter Sharp

Segmented Attenuation Correction in Whole Body PET using Neighbourhood EM Clustering495A.T. Papenfuss, G.J. O’Keefe & A.M. Scott Centre for PET, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre

Optimization of Regularization of Attenuation and Scatter Corrected Tc-99m Cardiac SPECT Studies for Defect Detection using Hybrid Images.

555

Manoj V. Narayanan, Michael A. King, Jeffrey Leppo, Seth Dahlberg, P. Hendrik Pretorius and Howard C. Gifford

Application of Fuzzy Inference Systems for Segmented Attenuation Correction in Positron-Emission-Tomography

625

K. Bilger, J. Kupferschlaeger, W. Mueller-Schauenburg, F. Nuesslin*, R. Bares, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, * Dept. of Medical Physics, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Germany.

Impact of Attenuation and Scatter Correction in SPECT for Quantification of Cerebral Blood Flow Using 99mTc-Ethyle-Cycteinate Dimmer

663

Miho Shidahara, Hiroshi Watabe, Kyeong Min Kim and Hidehiro Iida

Effects of Attenuation Correction on Tumor Detection in PET Oncology677C Bai, PE Kinahan, D Brasse, C Comtat, DW Townsend, CC Meltzer, V Villemagne, and M Charron

Using Ordered-Subset Algorithms for Single Photon Transmission Tomography in PET692C Bai, PE Kinahan, D Brasse, C Comtat

On Analyzing the Noise Propagation From Transmission Reconstructions Into Attenuation Corrected Emission Reconstructions

718

Ing-Tsung Hsiao, Yu-Xiang Xing, Gene Gindi SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA

2Poster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Improved Quantification for Tc-94m PET Imaging319W.C. Barker, L.P. Szajek, S.L. Green and R.E. Carson

A Novel High-Energy I-131 Scatter Correction Technique Which Includes Correction for Gamma Camera Scatter

325

M.J. Guy, G.D. Flux, M.A. Flower & R.J. Ott

Energy Resolution Enhancement in Scintimammography. Deconvolution of ROI Spectra by means of the mTSVD Regularizing Technique.

331

C. Bonifazzi, R. Pani, A. Tartari, R. Inches, R. Pellegrini, A. Del Guerra

Backprojection-space 3D Scatter Correction of the PETRRA Positron Camera.334A.Divoli, R Ott, K Erlandsson, M Flower

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Monte Carlo Investigation of Scatter in Dual Head Coincidence Imaging464B. Pointon, V. Sossi

A Hybrid Scatter Correction for 3D PET based on an Estimation of the Distribution of Unscattered Coincidences: Implementation on the ECAT EXACT HR+

610

N. C. Ferreira, R. Trébossen, V. Brulon, P. Merceron, C. Lartizien and B. Bendriem

Consideration of Backscatter Photons for Edge Detection in SPECT637Hiroshi Watabe, Miho Shidahara, Kyeong-Min Kim, Hidehiro Iida

SPECT Collimator Dependency of Scatter and Validation of Transmission Dependent Scatter Compensation Methodologies

670

Kyeong Min Kim, Hidehiro Iida, Hiroshi Watabe, Miho Shidahara

Crosstalk and Scatter Correction684Mi Young Paek, Jae Sung Lee, Dong Soo Lee, June-Key Chung, Myung Chul Lee

Basic imaging elementsOral Session

15’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

ISPA-Tubes with Scintillating YAP:Ce Windows: X and Gamma Ray Imaging for Biomedical Applications.

346

C. D'Ambrosio1, F. de Notaristefani2, H. Leutz1, D. Puertolas2, E. Rosso1 1 CERN, 2 INFN Section of Rome III, Italy

Performance Characteristics of Micro Crystal Element (MiCE) Detectors469R.S. Miyaoka, S.G. Kohlmyer, T.K. Lewellen

A Depth-encoding Anger Detector Using Scintillating Fibers483KL Matthews II, SM Leonard, CE Ordonez, DE Persyk, and W Chang

Dual APD array Readout of LSO crystals: Optimization of Crystal Surface Treatment489Y Shao, K Meadors, RW Silverman, R Farrell, L Cirignano, R Grazioso, KS Shah, SR Cherry. Crump Institute/UCLA, RMD.

Performance of PET Detector Modules with Wavelength-Shifting Fibers and Photon Counting Readout

672

Worstell, W.A., Chertovskih, A., Romanov, L., Zavarzin, V.G.

A 32-Channel LSO Matrix Coupled to a Monolithic 4x8 APD Array for High Resolution PET706B.J. Pichler, G. Boening, M. Rafecas, W. Pimpl, M. Schwaiger, S.I. Ziegler

all postersPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Preliminary Result from a GSO PET/SPECT Block Detector28Seiichi Yamamoto, Kazumasa Tarutani*, and Kotaro Minato*

Position Identification of Gamma-ray Sources65Y.Gono, Y.F.Yang, S.Motomura, S.Enomoto, Y.Yano

A Beta Detector with Noise Rejection Capability for Continuous Blood Sampling System87Seiichi Yamamoto, Kazumasa Tarutani, Kotaro Minato and Hidehiro iida

Improvement of Detection Efficiency in Coincidence Data Acquisition with CdTe Detector105Masazumi Ohtani, Koichi Ogawa, Takuzo Takayama and Issei Mori

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High Resolution SPECT181G. K. Loudos, K. S. Nikita, N. K. Ouzounoglou, N. D. Giokaris, A. Karabarbounis, S. C. Archimandritis, A. D. Varvarigou, D. Maintas

Design of a New BaF2 PET Module Concept and Preliminary Evaluation Results193G. Cléon, R. Allemand, S. Papillon, L. Pinot, A. Richard, R. Mastrippolito, Y. Charon, P. Lanièce, L. Ménard, L. Valentin

The Electronics System for the LBNL Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) Camera227W.W. Moses, J.W. Young, K. Baker, W. Jones, M. Lenox, M.H. Ho, and M. Weng

A LSO Scintillator Array for a PET Detector Module with Depth of Interaction Measurement235J.S. Huber, W.W. Moses, M.S. Andreaco, O. Pettersson, M. Pedrali-Noy, B. Krieger, E. Mandelli, G. Meddeler, M. Ho

An LSO-based Scanner for in-beam PET: A Feasibility Study289K. Lauckner, P. Crespo, W. Enghardt, J. Pawelke

Performance of a Compact 64-pixel CsI(Tl)/Si PIN Photodiode Imaging Module with IC Readout

430

G.J. Gruber, W.W. Moses, S.E. Derenzo, S.E. Holland, M. Pedrali-Noy, B. Krieger, E. Mandelli, G. Meddeler, et al.

A Fast Readout Method for an Imaging Plate using Wavelength Shifting Fibers and Line-shaped Laser

494

K. Sakasai, M. Katagiri, T. Nakamura, K. Toh, H. Takahashi, and M. Nakazawa

Registration of Photons from Scintillation Fibers and other Scintillators with Microcell Si Avalanche Photodiode operated in Geiger Mode [microAPD (GM)]

557

N.V. Basharuli, V.N. Belyaev, G.B. Bondarenko, P.G. Buzhan, V.M. Garmash, V.M Golovin,I.I. Kalashnikova, S.L. Lubeckii. 1N.V. Basharuli, 1V.N. Belyaev, 1G.B. Bondarenko, 1P.G. Buzhan, 2V.M. Garmash, 3V.M Golovin, 2I.I. Kalashnikova, 2S.L. Lubeckii.

Poly-phosphoric Acid Etching of LSO Crystals for Improved Light Output, Energy Resolution and Light Transmission

568

S. Siegel, M. Eriksson, A.A. Carey, L. Eriksson and R. Nutt

Use of Retro-Reflective Tape for Improving Spatial Resolution of Scintillation Detectors587D. McElroy, S. Huang, M. Dahlbom, E. Hoffman UCLA School of Medicine

On the Efficiency of NaI/LSO and YSO/LSO Phoswich Block Detectors683L. Eriksson, M. Schmand, M. Eriksson, C. Watson and R. Nutt

Imaging Properties Evaluation of Compact PSPMTs for Discrete Gamma Cameras Application

702

F.Garibaldi, F.Cusanno, G.M.Urcioli, E.Cisbani, R.Pani, A.Soluri, R.Pellegrini, R.Scafè, L.Indovina, M.N.Cinti G.Trotta

Virtual PMTs: Improving Centroid Positioning Performance near the Edges of a Gamma Camera Detector

710

P. Vaska, M.J. Petrillo, G. Muehllehner

Polarization Effects on Scatter Normalization of Block Detectors in PET723SG Kohlmyer, MS Kaplan, RS Miyaoka, RL Harrison, TK Lewellen

Radiochrommato-Imager808J. Jeanjean

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Image Reconstruction Algorithms and Sequence Processing

1: Mainly CT and Analytical AlgorithmsOral Session18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Weighted Hybrid Cone Beam Reconstruction for Circular Trajectories149M. Grass, Th. Köhler, and R. Proksa

Short-scan Reconstruction Algorithms for Diffraction Tomography and their Analogy to Halfscan Fan-beam CT

669

M. Anastasio and X. Pan

Performance Evaluation of Local ROI Algorithms for Exact ROI Reconstruction in Spiral Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

266

K. Sourbelle, G. Lauritsch, K.C. Tam, F. Noo, W.A. Kalender

3D-FRP: Direct Fourier Reconstruction with Fourier Reprojection for Fully 3D PET572S. Matej

A 3D Filtered Back-Projection Algorithm for SPECT using a Multi-Segment Rotating Slant-Hole Collimator

658

Y.C. Wang, D.E. Wessell, E.C. Frey and B.M.W. Tsui

2: SPECT and RegistrationOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Effect of Block-iterative Acceleration on Ga-67 Tumor Detection in Thoracic SPECT397H C Gifford, M A King, M V Narayanan, and P H Pretorius

LMIRA : List-Mode Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm for SPECT24L.R. Bouwens, R. Van de Walle, H. Gifford, M.A. King, I. Lemahieu, R.A. Dierckx

A Dynamic Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Single Camera Rotation Dynamic SPECT (dSPECT)

471

T. Farncombe, S. Blinder, A. Celler, D. Noll, J. Maeght, R. Harrop

A Hybrid 3d Reconstruction / Registration Algorithm for Correction of Head Motion in Emission Tomography

815

B.F. Hutton, A. Kyme, Y.H. Lau, D.W. Skerrett, R.R. Fulton

4D Affine Registration Models for Respiratory-Gated PET583GJ Klein, BW Reutter and RH Huesman

3: PETOral Session18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Image Properties of List Mode Likelihood Reconstruction for a Rectangular Positron Emission Mammography with DOI Measurements

487

Jinyi Qi and Ronald H. Huesman Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Acceleration of List-Mode Expectation Maximisation - Maximum Likelihood278A. J. Reader, R. Manavaki, S. Zhao, P. J. Julyan, D. L. Hastings and J. Zweit

4D PET Image Reconstruction from List Mode Data713Evren Asma, Thomas E. Nichols, Jinyi Qi, Richard M. Leahy

A Concave Prior Penalizing Relative Differences for Maximum-a-Posteriori Reconstruction in Emission Tomography

427

J. Nuyts, D. Beque, P. Dupont, L. Mortelmans

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Three-dimensional Non-local Edge-preserving Regularization for PET Transmission Reconstruction

351

Daniel F. Yu and Jeffrey A. Fessler

CTPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Practical Cone Beam Artifact Correction Algorithm11Jiang Hsieh

A Nonlinear Helical Reconstruction Algorithm for Multi-slice CT17Jiang Hsieh

Longitudinal Sampling and Aliasing in Multi-slice Helical Computed Tomography376Patrick La Riviere and Xiaochuan Pan Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago

Cone-Beam Iterative Reconstruction of a Segment of a Long Object78Larry Zeng, Grant Gullberg, and Paul Christian, University of Utah Daniel Gagnon, Marconi Medical Systems, Inc.

Fast Ordered Subset Reconstruction for X-ray CT208F. J. Beekman and C. Kamphuis, Utrecht University

Cone-beam Image Reconstruction using Spherical Harmonics: Short-object Problem with Midsize-Detector

147

Katsuyuki Taguchi, Gengsheng L. Zeng, and Grant T. Gullberg

A New Partial Scan Weighting Algorithm with Application to Arbitrary Pitch Selection in Multirow CT and Cardiac CT

172

Guy Besson

Helical Reconstruction Algorithms for an Eight-Row CT Scanner186Guy Besson, Cathy Ma

Multiresolution Reconstruction in Fan-Beam Tomography183S. Bonnet, F. Peyrin, F. Turjman and R. Prost

A Fast and Efficient Method for Sequential Cone-Beam Tomography249Th. Koehler, R. Proksa, and M. Grass

Efficient Forward Projection Through Discrete Data Sets Using Tri-Linear Interpolation343Th. Koehler, H. Turbell, and M. Grass

Solution to the Long Object Problem by Convolutions with Spatially Variant 1-D Hilbert Transforms in Spiral Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

327

G. Lauritsch, K.C. Tam, and K. Sourbelle (GL: Siemens Medical Engineering, Erlangen, Germany; KT: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA; KS: IMP, University of Erlangen, Germany)

Eliminating the Second-Intersection Contributions to Spiral Scan Cone Beam CT357K.C. Tam, G. Lauritsch, and K. Sourbelle

An Efficient Cone Beam Filtered Back-projection (CB-FBP) Reconstruction Algorithm for a Circle-plus-two-arc Orbit

478

Xiangyang Tang, Ruola Ning

Estimation of Geometrical Parameters in Spiral CT714F. Noo, T.A. White, R. Clackdoyle, T.J. Roney

New Multi-sector Reconstruction for Cardiac CT725Tinsu Pan, Ph.D. and Yun Shen Ph.D. GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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SPECTPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Toward Optimal Reduction of Noise and Errors in Non-Iterative Reconstruction Methods for 3D SPECT

730

Chien-Min Kao, Xiaochuan Pan, and Bill C. Penney

The Influence of Variable Myocardial thickness on SPECT Perfusion Imaging16P.H. Pretorius, T-S. Pan, M.V. Narayanan and M.A. King

A Theoretically Based Pre-Reconstruction Filter for Spatio-Temporal Noise Reduction in Gated Cardiac SPECT

491

Hongbing Lu, Guoping Han, Dongqing Chen, Lihong Li, and Zhengrong Liang

Spatially Adaptive Temporal Smoothing for Reconstruction of Dynamic PET and Gated SPECT Images

586

Jovan G. Brankov, Yongyi Yang, Manoj V. Narayanan, and Miles N. Wernick

Comparison of Different Figure of Merit Functions for Dynamic Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (dSPECT).

364

J. Maeght, D. Noll, A. Celler Member, IEEE, T. Farncombe.

Optimal Time-activity basis Selection for Exponential Spectral Analysis in Dynamic Emission Tomography

666

Jonathan S. Maltz

Separating the object and Detector Dependent Characteristics of Projector/backprojector Through Use of an Intermediate Stage

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L.R. Bouwens, R. Van de Walle, H.C. Gifford, M.A. King, I. Lemahieu, R.A. Dierckx

The Mu-Tau-Sigma Model for SPECT Reconstruction460Donald L. Gunter, Caesar E. Ordonez

TTR Algorithm for the Inversion of the Exponential X-ray Transform60J.-M. Wagner, F. Noo

Sampling Conditions of the Exponential Ray Transform733L. Desbat and C. Mennessier

Nonlinear Sinogram Filter Design for Backprojection Reconstruction473Blanca I. Andia, Ken Sauer and Charles A. Bouman

A Simultaneous Reconstruction / Segmentation Method for 123I SPECT Striata Imaging354Ivan Laurette, Éric Debreuve, Jacques Darcourt and Michel Barlaud

Enhancement of SPECT Reconstructions by Means of Coregistered MR Data390P. Calvini, P. Vitali, F. Nobili, G. Rodriguez

Transmission Image Reconstruction and Redundant Information in SPECT with Asymmetric Fan-Beam Collimation

642

X. Pan, P. La Riviere, D. Gilland, C.-M. Kao, W. Chang, R. Jaszczak

PETPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Comparison of SSRB, MSRB and FORE Methods to 3DRP Algorithm Using Data from a High Resolution PET Scanner

137

Hossain Baghaei, Jorge Uribe, Hongdi Li, Yu Wang and Wai-Hoi Wong

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Implementation and Evaluation of a 3D Ordered Subsets Expectation Maximization and Median Root Prior (3D OSEM-MRP) Reconstruction Algorithm.

156

V.Bettinardi, E.Pagani, S.Alenius, M.Teras, M.C.Gilardi, C.Labbe, M.Jacobson, K.Thielemans, M.Sadki, C.Morel, R.Levkovitz, A.Ben-Tal, T.Spinks, G.Mitra, F.Fazio

Reconstruction Strategies for the HRRT185C.Michel,M.Schmand,X.Liu,M.Sibomana,S.Vollmar,C.Knöss, M.Lercher,C.Watson,D.Newport,M.Casey,M.Defrise,K.Wienhard, W.D.Heiss

BeeHive: Cluster Reconstruction of 3-D PET Data in a Windows NT network using FORE385St. Vollmar, M. Lercher, C. Knöss, C. Michel, K. Wienhard and W.D. Heiss

Improving the Visual Quality of Median Root Prior Images in PET and SPECT Reconstruction389S. Alenius and U. Ruotsalainen

Incorporation of Frame-to-frame Coupling in Simultaneous Reconstruction of Dynamic Image Sequences in PET

472

EA Jonsson, SC Huang, T Chan

3D Reconstruction in PET Cameras with Irregular Sampling and Depth of Interaction598P.R.G. Virador, W.W. Moses, R.H. Huesman, J. Qi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California

Maximum Likelihood Emission Image Reconstruction for Randoms-precorrected PET Scans595Mehmet Yavuz and Jeffrey A. Fessler

Fast PET Image Reconstruction Based on SVD Decomposition of the System Matrix664V. Selivanov and R. Lecomte

Fast Fully 3D Image Reconstruction Using Planograms711D Brasse, PE Kinahan, R Clackdoyle, C Comtat, M Defrise, DW Townsend

SS3D - Fast Fully 3-D PET Iterative Reconstruction using Stochastic Sampling668H. A. Kudrolli (1), W. A. Worstell(2) and V.G. Zavarzin (2). (1) Boston Univ. Boston MA 02215. (2) PhotoDetection Systems, Boston

Low-Statistics Reconstruction with AB-EMML795K. Erlandsson, D. Visvikis, W.A. Waddington, I. Cullum, P.H. Jarritt, L.S. Pilowsky Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London

GeneralPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Application of JavaSpaces to improve Iterative Reconstruction of SPECT data4P. Knoll, S. Mirzaei, K. Koriska. H. Köhn L. Boltzmann Inst. of Nuclear Medicine, Vienna

Object Oriented Imaging Analysis Design and Interface Implemented in Java764Stephen Adler

Layer Extraction Technique Applied to Edge Detection of MR Images with Truncation Artifacts

765

Jianhua Luo, Su Hao and Yuemin Zhu

A New Efficient Inverse Radon Transform Algorithm780F. Torkamani-Azar M. Habibi

Globally Convergent Newton-SOR Method for Statistical Image Reconstruction67Shinji Sawada and Hiroyuki Kudo

A New Computation Compression Scheme based on a Multifrequential Approach350Thomas Rodet, Pierre Grangeat and Laurent Desbat

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An Iterative Approach to Tensor Tomography582Vladimir Y. Panin, G. Larry Zeng, and Grant T. Gullberg

Backprojection Filtering Algorithms For Reconstruction of Vector and Second Order Tensor Fields

722

Grant Gullberg, Michel Defrise, Vladimir Panin, and Larry Zeng University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA University Hospital AZ-VUB, Brussels, Belgium

Computationally Efficient Nonlinear Edge Preserving Smoothing of n-D Medical Images Via Scale-Space Fingerprint Analysis

599

Bryan W. Reutter, V. Ralph Algazi, and Ronald H. Huesman

Statistically Regulated and Adaptive EM Reconstruction for Emission Computed Tomograph585Dan J. Kadrmas, Ph.D.

List Mode EM Reconstruction of Compton Scatter Camera Images in 3-D698S.J. Wilderman, N.H. Clinthorne, C-h. Hua, J.A. Fessler, and W. Les Rogers

Bias-Resolution-Variance Tradeoffs for Single Pixel Estimation Tasks using the Uniform Cramer-Rao Bound

701

Thomas J. Kragh, and Alfred O. Hero, III

The Effects of Incorrect Modeling on Noise and Resolution Properties of ML-EM Images.577D.W. Wilson and H.H. Barrett

Reconstruction of Smooth Distributions within Unsmooth Circumferences from Limited Views Using Filtered-backprojection Algorithm

83

J. Feng et al.,State Key Lab for Novel Software Tech.,Nanjing Univ.,China

Dual-Modality ImagingOral Session

15’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 11:00 - 12:30

Description of a Prototype Combined CT-SPECT System with a Single CdZnTe Detector691Koji Iwata, Soo-Il Kwon, PR Bennett, L Cirignano, KS Shah, and BH Hasegawa

A Combined Scintimammography / Stereotactic Core Biopsy Digital X-ray System532A.G. Weisenberger, T.D. Green, R. Hoefer, C. Keppel, B. Kross, S. Majewski1, V. Popov R. Wojcik and D. C. Wymer

MRI-compatible Shields for 511keV Gamma Photons: a Feasibility Study365D. Strul, D. Cash, S.F. Keevil, P. Halstead, S.C.R. Williams and P.K. Marsden King’s College London

Comparison of Dual- and Triple-Head Hybrid PET Systems using Estimation Task Performance

556

Robert Z Stodilka, Stephen J Glick

Influence of Detector Thickness on Resolution in Three-headed Gamma Camera PET252S.Vandenberghe, Y.D’Asseler, C.G. Matthews, M.Koole, R.Van De Walle, I.Lemahieu, R.A.Dierckx, J.A. Kolthammer

PET and CT Image Registration of the Rat Brain and Skull Using the AIR Algorithm774J. J. Vaquero 1, M. Desco 2, J Pascau 2, A. Santos 3, I. J. Lee 1, J. Seidel 1 and M. V. Green 1 1 National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 2 Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain 3 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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all postersPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Three-dimensional Geometric Sensitivity Calculation for Three-headed Coincidence Imaging.159Y. D’Asseler, S. Vandenberghe, C. Matthews, M. Koole, R. Van deWalle, I. Lemahieu, R.A. Dierckx

A Multimodal Matching Application to Optimize Neurosurgery and Brain Stereotaxic Irradiation: Requirements and Realization.

180

O de Dreuille, H Foehrenbach, P Sabbah, P Pereira, JF Mangin, C Nioche, G Dutertre, N Bellegou N, C Leveque, V Frouin, YS Cordoliani, M Desgeorges, JF Gaillard.

NEMA NU 2-2000 Performance Measurements On An ADAC MCD Camera228V Sossi, B Pointon, P Cohen, K Hudkins, S Jivan, K Nitzek, J deRosario, T Ruth

Characterization of Tomographic Sampling in Hybrid-PET using the Fourier Crosstalk Matrix481Robert Z Stodilka, Edward J Soares, Stephen J Glick

Development of a Quasi-Monochromatic CT System for Breast Cancer Study with Combined Emission-transmission Tomography

502

M. Gambaccini, A. Fantini, G. Di Domenico, N. Sabba, A. Taibi, A. Tuffanelli, G. Zavattini, D. Bollini, E. Castelli, R. Pani, A. Del Guerra

Geometric Calibration of a Triple-Head Gamma-Camera PET System639Wenli Wang and Christopher G. Matthews

Effects of Patient Motion in Coincidence Studies on Hybrid PET/SPECT System740M. Ivanovic, C. Pellot-Barakat, D.A. Weber, S.Loncaric, D.K. Shelton

LSO PET/SPECT Spatial Resolution: Critical On-line DOI Rebinning Methods and Results752W.F. Jones, M.E. Casey, A. van Lingen, and B. Bendriem

Performance of Parametric Shape Estimators for 2--D and 3--D Imaging Systems775Robinson Piramuthu and Alfred O. Hero III

PET InstrumentationOral Session

15’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 13:30 - 15:00

MaxPET: A Dedicated Mammary and Axillary Region Positron Emission Tomography Imaging System for Breast Cancer

190

N.K. Doshi, R.W. Silverman, Y. Shao, S.R. Cherry

The ECAT HRRT: Performance and First Clinical Application of the New High Resolution Research Tomograph

280

K. Wienhard, M. Schmand, M.E. Casey, K. Baker, J. Bao, L. Eriksson, W.F. Jones, C. Knoess, M. Lennox, M. Lercher, P. Luk, C. Michel, J.H. Reed, N. Richerzhagen, J. Treffert, S. Vollmar, J.W. Young, W.D. Heiss and R. Nutt

Performance of a GSO Brain PET Camera442Joel S. Karp, Suleman Surti, Richard Freifelder, Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon, Chris Cardi, Lars-Eric Adam, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Gerd Muehllehner, ADAC UGM, Philadelphia

Conceptual Design Of A Compact Positron Tomograph for Prostate Imaging490J.S. Huber, S.E. Derenzo, J. Qi, W.W. Moses, R.H. Huesman, and T.F. Budinger

Implementation of True Continuous 2D/3D Whole Body PET Scanning591Magnus Dahlbom, Johhny Reed, John Young

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Relative Lesion Detectability in 3D vs. 2D Dedicated Multi-Ring PET636S.C. Moore, G. El Fakhri, R. Badawi, A.D. Van den Abbeele, R.E. Zimmerman

all postersPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Liquid Xe PET Camera for Neuro-science Research77ML. Andrieux ; J. Collot ; S. Jan ; Paul de Saintignon - ISN Grenoble JF. Le Bas - IRM CHU Grenoble ; Daniel Fagret - Med Nuc. CHU Grenoble

Preliminary Evaluation of High Resolution Positron Emission Tomography for Breast Imaging93LL White, RJ Ott, MA Flower, K Erlandsson, D Duxbury, P Bruyndonckx, S Tavernier

Evaluation of a Neck-Shield for Use During Neurological Studies with a Whole-Body PET Scanner

131

C J Thompson(1) S Kecani (2) and S Boelen(3) Montreal Neurological Institute(1) and Dept. of Physics(2) McGill University, Montreal, and In.Co.De Pte. (3)Claire QC Canada

Random Correction for Positron Emission Tomography Using Singles Count Rates175O. Rokitta, M. Casey, K. Wienhard, U. Pietrzyk

Compensation of Missing Projection Data for MDAPET Camera217Hossain Baghaei, Hongdi Li, Jorge Uribe, Yu Wang and Wai-Hoi Wong

Evaluation of Performance of the CPET Scanner using Standardized Measurement Techniques

434

Lars-Eric Adam, Joel S. Karp, Margaret E. Daube-Witherspoon

Improving the Performance of Small Planar Detectors for Dedicated PET Instruments461N Zhang, C J Thompson, K Nguyen and K Murthy

Use of an Optical Motion Tracking System to Measure Patient Head Movements in Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

640

R.R. Fulton, S.R. Meikle, S. Eberl, J. Pfeiffer, M.J. Fulham

Evaluation of Coincidence Plane Definitions for Improved Resolution Uniformity in PET697Magnus Dahlbom

Optimizing Septal Spacing for Gamma Camera PET Imaging709T. G. Turkington, W. H. Sampson Duke University Medical Center

A Whole Body Phantom for 3D PET715T.G. Turkington, W.H. Sampson, J.S. Ha, P.D. Kirven, R. J. Jaszczak . Duke Medical Center and Data Spectrum, Inc.

Quantative and Parametric Imaging Techniques1: QuantificationOral Session

18’ per presentationWednesday 18 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Evaluation of Collimator-Detector Response Compensation in Tumor SPECT using Medium- and High-Energy Collimators

700

B.M.W. Tsui, X.D. Zhao, S. Sayeram, E.C. Frey, S. W. Falen and W.H. McCartney The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

High-Resolution Absolute SPECT Quantitation for I-131 Distributions Used in the Treatment of Lymphoma: A Phantom Study

533

D. E. Gonzalez Trotter, J. E. Bowsher and R. J. Jaszczak

Comparison of Analytical and Iterative Approaches to Activity Quantitation in Brain SPECT651G. El Fakhri, M.F. Kijewski, S.C. Moore

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Towards Quantitation for Dual Head Coincidence Cameras by Using Attenuation, Random and Scatter Corrections, Fourier Rebinning and OSEM

482

L Shao, P Nellemann, J Ye, J Koster, Horace Hines, ADAC Laboratories, California, USA.

Simultaneous Tc-99m/I-123 SPECT Brain Imaging using Generalized Spectral Factor Analysi760S Hapdey, I Buvat, H Benali, A Todd-Pokropek, R Di Paola

2: Repeated and Dynamic StudiesOral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Comparison of Static and Dynamic Cardiac Perfusion Thallium-201 SPECT686H. S. Khare, E. V. R. DiBella, D. J. Kadrmas, P. E. Christian and G. T. Gullberg

Non-Parametric and Non-Rigid Registration Method applied to Myocardial Gated SPECT584Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud, Ivan Laurette, Gilles Aubert, Jacques Darcourt

Registration of Whole-body Scintillation Camera Images for Conjugate View Quantification607K. Sjögreen, M. Ljungberg, K. Wingårdh and S-E Strand

2: Parametric Imaging.Oral Session18’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Modeling Strategy for Background Compensation in Repeat Cerebral Blood Flow Quantitation with Diffusible Tracers

602

Hidehiro Iida, Hiroshi Watabe, Miho Shidahara, Kyeong-Min Kim, and Toshiyuki Ogura

Correction for Ambiguous Solutions in Factor Analysis using a Penalized Least Squares Objective

210

A. Sitek, G. T. Gullberg, and R. H. Huesman

Quantification / partial volume effectsPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Effect of Blood Glucose on Myocardium FDG Uptake224A. Belakhlef, H. Allia, D. Bjelke, D. Margouleff, I. Zanzi

Study of the Quantification of FBP ECT Images with a Correction for Partial Volume Effects285M. Koole, R. Van de Walle, K. Van Laere,Y. D'Asseler, S. Vandenberghe, L.R. Bouwens, I. Lemahieu, R.A. Dierckx

Practical Scatter-Independent Gamma Camera Dead-time Correction for Iodine-131509M.J. Guy, G.D. Flux, M.A. Flower, R.J. Ott, P. Papavasileiou & S. Chittenden

Comparison between an Image- and a Sinogram-Based Correction Algorithm for Partial Volume Effect in 3D PET Imaging.

551

V. Frouin, C. Comtat, A. Reilhac, A. C. Evans, and M.-C. Grégoire

A Correction Algorithm for Partial Volume Effects in 3D PET Imaging Principle and Validation566A. Reilhac, O.G. Rousset, C. Comtat, V. Frouin, M.-C. Gregoire, A.C. Evans

An Evaluation of Cardiac Uniformity, Contrast and SNR with Dual-Head 180 degree and Triple-Head 360 degree SPECT Scans

605

M. Chen, R. Jaszczak, D. Gilland, J. Bowsher; Duke Univ., Univ. of Florida, USA.

Simulation Studies for Quantitative Lesion Detection of Statistical Parametric Mapping in Assessing Cerebral Blood Flow with SPECT

614

Hye-Kyung Son, Hee-Joung Kim, Jong-Doo Lee K21 Project for Medical Sciences, Department of Radiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Quantitative Cardiac PET Imaging: Reproducibility in an Integrated Analysis Environment789S.G. Nekolla, T. Balbach, J. Neverve, F.G. Bengel and M. Schwaiger

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MiscellaneousPoster SessionWednesday 18 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Tumor Detection Observer Study Comparing 2D versus 3D Wholebody PET Imaging and Reconstruction Protocols

271

C. Lartizien, P. Kinahan, C. Comtat, R. Swensson, B. Bendriem, M. Lin, R. Trébossen

Intermixed Visualization of Anatomical Structure and Ventricular Shapes in Cardiology338Helen Hong and Myoung-Hee Kim

Direct Determination of Sr-90 Body Burden in Man517O.M. Anshakov, V.A. Chudakov , V.I. Gurinovich, A.A. Khrutchinsky, S.A. Kuten, V.F. Minenko

Objective Assessment of 3-D Medical Image Registration Results Using Statistical Confidence Intervals

617

H.S. Wang, D. Feng and S.C. Huang

BBLimage: A Portable Open-Source Software Toolkit for Volume Image Analysis665Paul Hughett

Fast Edge-Preserving Noise Reduction for Ultrasound Images731Suvichakorn A., Chinrungreung J.

Dynamic PET/SPECTPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Fast Parametric Image Reconstruction of FDG using Dynamic PET Data84Takashi Obi, Nobuto Oku, Taiga Yamaya, Hinako Toyama, Msahiro Yamagushi and Nagaaki Ohyama

Assessment of Performance for the Dynamic SPECT (dSPECT) Method476A.Celler, T.Farncombe, D.Lyster, D.Noll, J.Maeght, R.Harrop

A Knowledge-based Image Smoothing Technique for Dynamic PET Studies609Weidong Cai, Dagan Feng, and Roger Fulton

Assessment of Kinetic Feature Analysis in Dynamic PET with ROC Study748X. Yu and C.C. Huang Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

SegmentationPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Ordered-Subsets EM Algorithm for Image Segmentation with Application to Brain MRI141Akira Hashimoto and Hiroyuki Kudo

Estimation of the Endometrium in Ultrasound Images Using Recursive Model492Cheng-Huei Yang, Pau-Choo Chung, Yung-Chieh Tsai, Li-Yeh Chuang

Segmentation of Dynamic PET Images Using Cluster Analysis620Koon-Pong Wong, Dagan Feng, Steven R. Meikle and Michael J Fulham

Electronic Colon Cleansing by Colonic Material Tagging and Image Segmentation for Virtual Colonoscopy: Method Evaluation

736

Dongqing Chen, Lihong Li, Mark Wax, Bin Li, Arie Kaufman and Zhengrong Liang

Two Different Ways for Blood Vessel Detection: Scanning and Tracking838Liu Yang*, Chutatape Opas

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Pattern recognition / cluster analysisPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Automatic Complex of Blood Smear Analysis.171Vl.S. Medovy, Vt.S. Medovy, A.M.Pyatnitsky, B.Z.Sokolinsky, V.G. Terziev.

Testing MRI and Image Analysis Techniques for Fat Quantification in Meat Science295Lucia Ballerini, Anders Högberg, Gunilla Borgefors, Ann-Christin Bylund, Ann Lindgård, Kerstin Lundström, Olivier Rakotonirainy, Bassam Soussi

Non-invasive Extraction of Physiological Parameters in Quantitative PET Studies Using Simultaneous Estimation and Cluster Analysis

621

Koon-Pong Wong, Dagan Feng, Steven R. Meikle and Michael J. Fulham

Application of Factor and Cluster Analysis for the Parametric Image of Myocardial Blood Flow Using O-15 Water and Dynamic PET

737

Jae Sung Lee, Ji Young Ahn, Dong Soo Lee, Kangjun Seo, Kwang Suk Park

Factor analysisPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Spectral Analysis for Evaluation of Myocardial Tracers for Medical Imaging654RH Huesman, BW Reutter, and RC Marshall

Quantification of Renal Cortical Blood Flow Using O-15 Water Dynamic PET and Factor Analysis

726

Ji Young Ahn†#, Kangjun Seo*†, Jae Sung Lee†, Dong Soo Lee†

Radiotherapy and Accelerator ImagingOral Session

15’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Microtomography at the ESRF Beamline ID 22126T. Weitkamp, C. Rau, A. Snigirev, M. Drakopoulos, A. Simionovici

Quantitative Analysis of Mineral Bone Variation in 3D Synchrotron Radiation Microtomography images

353

Nuzzo S., Peyrin F., Martín-Badosa E., Lafage-Proust M.H., Boivin G.

Bone MRI Segmentation Assessment based on Synchrotron Radiation Computed Microtomography.

128

C. Revol-Muller, H. Benoit-Cattin, Y. Carillon, C. Odet, A. Briguet3, F. Peyrin

DRR Volume Rendering using Splatting in Shear-warp Context192Wenli Cai and Georgios Sakas

Dose Imaging and Profiling for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Planning.529G.Gambarini et al. Department of Physics of the University, Milano, Italy

A Study of the Spectral Response of Portal Imaging Detectors273Mike Partridge, Burkhard Groh, Lothar Spies, Bernd-Michael Hesse and Thomas Bortfeld

all postersPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

X-Ray Transmission Microtomography Facility at the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory433R.T. Lopes, H.S. Rocha, E.F.O. Jesus, R.C. Barroso, L.F. de Oliveira, M.J. Anjos, D. Braz and S. M.Simabuco

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Application of 3D Synchrotron Radiation Microtomography to the Study of Bone Architecture for a Mice Model of Osteoporosis

384

E. Martín-Badosa, F. Peyrin, D. Amblard, S. Nuzzo, A. Elmoutaouakkil, L. Vico

Scanning Transmission Ion Microscopy on Articular Cartilage for Arrangement Studies of the Collageneous Network

204

T. Reinert, J. Vogt and T. Butz, U. Reibetanz, A. Werner and W. Gruender

A 3D X-ray Microtomographic System with CMOS Image Sensor306S.W. Lee, H.K. Kim, G. Cho, Y.H. Shin, Y.Y. Won

Mathematical Foundations of Phase-Contrast Computed Tomography311Andrei V. Bronnikov

An Innovative Dosimetric System Devoted to Intraoperative Radiation Therapy44F. Casali, M.P. Morigi, M. Rossi, M. Bettuzzi, D. Romani, R. Brancaccio and A. Francia

Inverse Planning for Radiotherapy using Ridge Functions18I.G.Kazantsev and I.Lemahieu

Applications to Radiotherapy of a Dose-Mapping System Based on the Optically Stimulated Luminescence

261

G.Polge, L.Dusseau, Member IEEE, S.Matias, D.Gensanne, D.Plattard, J.Fesquet, J.Gasiot, Member IEEE, P.J. McNulty ,M.Davis, M.Tortora, D.Porcheron, J.B.Dubois et al.

Prompt imaging of Absorbed Dose in Tissue-equivalent Gel-phantoms and new Toolkit for 3D data Visualization.

530

G.Gambarini, R.Foroni, U.Danesi et al. Dept. of Physics (University of Milano), Vision Dept. (University of Verona), Italy

GafChromic(tm) Film for 2D and 3D Dose Mapping in Proton Beam Radiotherapy770S.O. Troja, E. Egger, A.M. Gueli, A. Kacperek, M.Coco, R.Musmeci, A.Pedalino

Progress of Quality Control in Radiotherapy: Daily Control Thanks to On-line Dynamic Vsualization

294

S. Chapuy1, Z. Dimcovski1, H. Do2, R.O. Mirimanoff3, S. Raimondi2 1 Bio-Scan SA, Geneva, Switzerland 2 Institut de Radio Physique Appliquée, Lausanne, Switzerland 3 Service de Radio-Oncologie, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

A Novel Portal Imaging Device for Advanced Radiation Therapy381C. Iacobaeus, A. Brahme, M. Danielsson, J. Ostling, V. Peskov, M. Wallmark

Monte Carlo Analyses of X-ray Absorption, Noise and Detective Quantum Efficiency Considering Therapeutic X-ray Spectrum in Portal Imaging Detector

268

G. Cho, H.K. Kim, S.W. Lee, D.K. Kim, H.K. Lee and K. Joo

Simulation tools and Instrumentation Modelling1Oral Session

15’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 13:30 - 15:00

Optimization of PET System Design for Lesion Detection488Jinyi Qi Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A Physics Based Model of Pixellated Semiconductor Gamma Camera170A. Glière, A. Koenig, F. Mathy, P. Hugonnard LETI - CEA Technologies Avancées, CEA Grenoble, France

A Monte Carlo Study of High Resolution PET with Granulated Dual Layer Detectors459M. Rafecas, G. Böning, B.J. Pichler, E. Lorenz, M. Schwaiger, S.I. Ziegler Nuklearmedizin TU München, MPI für Physik München

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Scintillator Crystal Optimization by Monte Carlo Simulation for Photodiode Matrix Detector638J.Chavanelle, A. Pousse, L. Fagot, M. Parmentier and B.Kastler

Design and Simulation of Scintillator-pixel Photodetector with the Ability to Measure Position of Interaction.

744

G.J. Takacs, A.B. Rosenfeld, Senior Member, IEEE, M.L.F. Lerch, Member, IEEE, G.N. Taylor, S.R. Meikle, Member, IEEE, S. Eberl, Member, IEEE, P.E. Simmonds, V.L.Perevertailo4, B.J. Allen,

Investigation of a Bias Free Positioning Estimator for the Scintillation Camera214J. Joung, R. S. Miyaoka, and T. K. Lewellen

2Oral Session15’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 13:30 - 15:00

A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Planar and SPECT Imaging: Implementation, Verification and Applications in I-131 SPECT

209

Yuni Dewaraja(1), Michael Ljungberg(2), Amitava Majumdar(3), Abhijit Bose(1), Kenneth F Koral(1) (1) University of Michigan, USA (2) Lund Unversity, Sweden (3) San Diego Super Computer Center, USA

Realistic Monte Carlo Simulation of Ga-67 Imaging for Optimization and Evaluation of Correction Methods

630

S.C. Moore, G. El Fakhri Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Evaluation of Geometric, Scatter and Septal Penetration Components in Fan Beam Collimators using Monte Carlo Simulation

387

A.Cot, D.Pareto, J.Sempau, S.Bullich, J.Pavía, F.Calviño, D.Ros

Performance Evaluation of a Small Field-of-View Camera for Myocardial Perfusion SPECT using a Channelized Hotelling Observer

629

S.A. Sawyer, E.C. Frey, K.L. Gilland, B.M.W. Tsui, J. Gormley

Estimation of Mechanical Properties From Gated SPECT and Cine MRI Data Using a Finite Element Mechanical Model of the Left Ventricle

707

Bing Feng, Alex Veress, Arkadiusz Sitek, Grant T. Gullberg, and Dilip Ghosh Roy

Development of an Interactive Software Application to Model Patient Populations in the Spline-Based MCAT Phantom

682

W. Paul Segars, David S. Lalush and Benjamin M. W. Tsui

all postersPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Search Algorithm of a Maximum Rectangular Region for Object Description104M. Chizaki and K. Ogawa

Compact Compton Camera225P. Antich, R. Parkey, E. Tsyganov, A. Zinchenko

Implementation of a Positron Emission Tomography Monte-Carlo simulator260B. Dupuy, X. Battle, A. Turzo, A. Le Duc-Pennec, V. Morin, C. Le Rest, Y.Bizais

Geometrical Response Modeling in Fan-Beam Collimators. A Numerical Simulation262D.Pareto, A.Cot, C.Falcón, I.Juvells, J.Pavía, D.Ros

A Digital Phantom of the Axilla Based on the Visible Human Project Data Set330Stephen McCallum, Andrew Welch

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Use of an Analytical Model for Optimizing the Design of a Small-animal PET Scanner with DOI Capability

360

D. Strul, R.B. Slates, M. Dahlbom, S.R. Cherry, and P.K. Marsden King’s College London and UCLA School of Medicine

Rebinning Errors in Coincidence Imaging Due to Depth of Interaction462C.E. Ordonez

Slat Collimation and Cylindrical Detectors for PET Simulations using SimSET507R.L Harrison, S.D. Vannoy, M.S. Kaplan, T.K. Lewellen Dept. of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Effect of Voxel Size in CT Simulations542Andrew L. Goertzen, Freek J. Beekman, Simon R. Cherry

EGS4 Monte Carlo Simulation of a High-Pressure Xenon Tube Detector Array574Lawrence P. Armendarez, Christopher S. Martin, Duy Tu, and Jeffrey L. Lacy

Design Studies of Collimated Gamma Ray Sources594M. Mikolaou, G. Spyrou and G. Panagiotakis, Univ of Patras; G. Tzanakos, Univ of Athens

Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiological Imaging Systems and the Recovery of the Poisson Distribution

660

J. Peter and R.J. Jaszczak

Monte-Carlo Simulation of Gamma-cameras using GEANT680J. Berthot, V. Breton, P. Brette, D. Lazaro

Deformable Model of the Heart with Fiber Structure708A. Sitek, G.J. Klein, G.T. Gullberg, and R.H. Huesman

An Anthropomorphic Phantom Integrated EGS4 Monte Carlo Code and Its Application in Compton Probe

734

L. Zhang1, S.J. Wilderman3, N.H.Clinthorne2, and W.L. Rogers1,2 1 Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, 2 Division of Nuclear Medicine,3 Dept. of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Small Cameras and Detector ProbesAnimal PET and Beta ProbesOral Session

15’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 9:00 - 10:30

Coincidence Measurements on Detectors for microPET II: A 1 mm3 Resolution PET Scanner for Small Animal Imaging

569

A. Chatziioannou, Y. Tai, Y. Shao, N. Doshi, B. Silverman, K. Meadors, S.R. Cherry

Quad-HIDAC, a Next-Generation PET Camera for Small-Animal Imaging356A Jeavons et al. Oxford Positron Systems, Oxford OX6 8SY, UK P Bloomfield et al. Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

Study of a PET Detector Module with LSO Scintillation Crystals and an APD array22A. Fremout, R. Chen, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier Vrije Universiteit Brussel

SIC, an Intracerebral Radiosensitive Microprobe for in vivo Neuropharmacology Investigations in Small Laboratory Animals: First Prototype Design, Characterisation and in vivo Evaluation.

315

F. Pain, P. Laniece, R. Mastrippolito, Y. Charon, D. Comar (1), A. Glatigny, M.T. Guillemin, P. Hantraye (2), V. Leviel (1), L. Menard, L. Pinot, J.F. Pujol (1), L. Valentin. Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Universite Paris 11, Orsay, France.

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Design and Performance of a Portable Positron-Sensitive Surgical Probe652Fang Liu, Student Member IEEE, Janet R. Saffer, Member IEEE, Nigel S. Lockyer, Member IEEE, F. Mitch Newcomer, Member IEEE, Joel S. Karp, Senior Member IEEE

A Compact Beta Imaging System with Optical Fiber Coupled Micro-Columnar Scintillators771MP Tornai, AG Weisenberger, V Popov, CE Kepppel, S Majewski, SV Tipnis, VV Nagarkar; Duke / TJNAF / RMD

Small FOV Single-photon ImagersOral Session15’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 13:30 - 15:00

An Original Approach for Small Animal Emission Tomography : TOHR; Characterization and first Evaluation

359

L. Ploux(1), R. Mastrippolito, A. Glatigny, P. Lanièce, F. Lefebvre, F. Pain, L.Pinot, Y. Charon, L. Ménard, P. Hantraye(1), C. Loc'h(1), L. Valentin. Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université de Paris 11, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France. Groupe Modélisation

Hand-Held Gamma-Ray Imaging Device for Localization of Sentinel Lymph Nodes550L. R. MacDonald, Y. Yamaguchi, E. A. Tikhomirov, A.M. Pirogov, B. E. Patt, J. S. Iwanczyk, D. McElroy, E. J. Hoffman, N. P. Alazraki, J. N. Aarsvold, R. A. Mintzer

Optimized Readout of a Small Gamma Camera for Dual Modality Spot Breast Imaging656R. Wojcik, S. Majewski, B. Kross, V. Popov, A.G. Weisenberger Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Newport News, Virginia, USA

Tomographic Small-Animal Imaging Using a High-Resolution Semiconductor Camera421GA Kastis, MC Wu, SJ Balzer, DW Wilson, L Furenlid, G Stevenson, HH Barrett, HB Barber, JM Woolfenden, P Kelly, M Appleby.

Feasibility Study for SPECT Mammography Based on Compact Imagers Rotating around Breast Vertical Axis.

705

R.Pani, A. Soluri,R. Scafè, R. Pellegrini, G. De Vincentis, F. Scopinaro, M. N. Cinti,L..Indovina,G.Trotta, M. Gambaccini, A. Fantini, A. Taibi, A. Olivo, S. Pani, L. Rigon, D.Bollini, N. Lanconelli, E. Cisbani, A. Del Guerra.

Advantage of Using Compact Gamma Cameras for Sentinel Node Radio-guided Surgery : Monte Carlo Simulation and First Clinical Evaluation of an Intra-Operative Imager

531

S. Pitre*, Y. Charon**, L. Ménard**, M. Ricard***, M. Solal*, P. Lanièce**, R. Mastrippolito* and L. Valentin**. *Inst. de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, **Groupe Modélisation Physique Interfaces Biologie, Université Paris 7, ***Inst. G. Roussy, &U66 -INSER

Animal PET and Beta ProbesPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

Development of a Position-sensitive Detector for Small Animal PET282A.Fedorov, M.Korzhik, P.Lecoq, O.Missevitch, A.Tkatchev Crystal Clear Collaboration, CERN

Design Considerations for A Small-Animal PET Device with Resolution Approaching 1mm.466J.A. Correia, C.A. Burnham, D. Kaufman, and A.J. Fischman

Implementation of Monte Carlo Coincident Aperture Functions in Image Generation of a High Resolution Animal Positron Tomograph

479

G. Boening(1), B.J. Pichler(2), M. Rafecas(2), E. Lorenz(1), M. Schwaiger(2) and S. Ziegler(2) 1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen 2) Nuklearmedizinische Klinik des Klinikums rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen

Preliminary Evaluation of the microPET P4: A PET System Dedicated to Small Animal Imaging

571

Y.C. Tai, A. Chatziioannou, S. Siegel, J. Young, D. Newport, R.N. Goble, S.R. Cherry, R.E. Nutt

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System Design for a 1 mm3 Resolution Animal PET Scanner: microPET II712Yuan-Chuan Tai, Arion F. Chatziioannou, Magnus Dahlbom, Simon R.Cherry

Development of a Small Animal PET Prototype739G. Tzanakos et al, Univ Athens, National Tech Univ Athens, Univ of Patras, Greece

Experimental Estimates of the Absolute Sensitivity of a Small Animal PET Scanner with Depth-of-Interaction Capability

777

J. Seidel, J. J. Vaquero, I. J. Lee, and M. V. Green

Evaluation and Early Imaging Results from a Small Animal PET Scanner: "ANIPET"806K Nguyen, C J Thompson, S Kecani, L Nikinnen, A Ben el Fassi, A Reader, N Zhang and M Diksic

A Direct Sinogram-Restoration Method for Fast Image Reconstruction in Compact DOI-PET Systems

727

Chien-Min Kao and Chin-Tu Chen

Intracerebral Beta Microprobe for Radiotracer Kinetics in Freely Moving Animals30C.L.Woody, S.P.Stoll, D.J.Schlyer

Small FOV Single-photon ImagersPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

High Resolution SPECT with a CdZnTe Detector Array and a Scintillation Camera139MC Wu, GA Kastis, SJ Balzer, DW Wilson, HB Barber, HH Barrett, MW Dae, BH Hasegawa

Development of New High Resolution Detectors for Small Animal SPECT Imaging553L.R. MacDonald, J.S. Iwanczyk, B.E. Patt, C.R. Tull, P. D. Acton, H. F. Kung, B.M.W. Tsui

An Investigation of Coded Aperture Imaging for Small Animal SPECT505S.R. Meikle, R.R. Fulton, S. Eberl, M. Dahlbom, K.P. Wong and M.J. Fulham

Use of Conventional Gamma Cameras for Small Animal Imaging457DJ Wagenaar, JC Engdahl, V Simcic, and EG Hawman, Siemens Med Sys, Hoffman Estates, IL; T Mertelmeier, Siemens Med. Siemens Med Eng, Erlangen, Germany; and U Mahmood, Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA

The Optimal Crystal Geometry for Small-Field-of-View Gamma Cameras: Arrays or Disks?274A. Wirrwar, N. Schramm, H. Halling, H.-W. Müller-Gärtner

Performance Evaluation of the Plate and Array Types of NaI(Tl), CsI(Tl) and CsI(Na) for Small Gamma Camera Using PSPMT

240

J-H. Kim, Y. Choi, K.C. Im, S.K. Woo, H.K. Seo, Y.S. Choe, K-H. Lee, S.E. Kim, K-S. Joo, B-T. Kim

The Role of Breast Compression in Scintimammography475R.Pani, R.Pellegrini, A.Soluri, I.N.Weinberg, G. De Vincentis, R. Scafè, M.N.Cinti, L. Indovina,F. Scopinaro, V. David, F. Garibaldi, A. Del Guerra and I. Khalkhali

Implementing Reconstruction with Hand-held Gamma Cameras345INWeinberg, V Zawarzin, R Pani, G DeVincentes, W Worstell PEM Technologies, Bethesda MD, University La Sapienza, Italy

Imaging Evaluation of CsI(Tl) Arrays for Scintimammography696R.Pani1²,M.N.Cinti, R. Scafè, A. Soluri, R. Pellegrini, L.Indovina, G. De Vincentis,G.Trotta, N.Burgio, C.Ciavola, F.Garibaldi, G.M.Urciuoli, G. Zavattini, G. Di Domenico, D.Bollini, N. Lanconelli , A. Olivo, S. Pani, L. Rigon A. Del Guerra

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Evaluation of Performance of Dedicated, Compact Scintillation Cameras589D. McElroy, E. Hoffman, L. MacDonald*, B. Patt*, J. Iwanczyk* UCLA School of Medicine, *Photon Imaging Inc.

Imaging Performances of the Large Area Intra-operative Camera POCI396S. Pitre*, Y. Charon**, L. Ménard**, M. Solal*, M. Ricard***, A. Glatigny*, P. Lanièce**, R. Mastrippolito** and L.Valentin**. *Inst. de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, ** Université Paris 7, *** Inst. G. Roussy

Autoradiography of High Energy Radionuclides using a Microchannel Plate Detector431J. E. Lees, A. Murray, A.C. Perkins and G.W. Fraser

Advanced Gamma-Probes for Radioguided Oncological Surgery2002W. Dusi, P. Angelotti, D. Bollini, C. Moroni, M. Ricard

SPECT, Imaging Geometry and CollimatorsOral Session

15’ per presentationThursday 19 October, 16:30 - 18:00

Effects of SPECT Collimation and System Geometry on Classification Tasks Related to Parkinson’s Disease

547

M.F. Kijewski, S.C. Moore, H. Jadvar, R.E. Zimmerman, S.P. Mueller

Silicon Detector for a Compton Camera in Medical Imaging623D.Meier, A.Czermak,P.Jalocha,B.Sowicki,W.Dulinski,G.Maehlum,E.Nygard, K.Yoshioka,J.Fuster,C.Lacasta,S.Roe,P.Weilhammer,C-H.Hua,S.Wildermann,L.Zhang, N.H.Clinthorne,W.L.Rogers

The Geometric Transfer Function for Slant-Hole Collimators675Daniel E Wessell, Eric C Frey and Benjamin M W Tsui

Improved I-131 SPECT Resolution Through Modeling of Individual Medium-Energy Collimator Holes

535

D. E. Gonzalez Trotter, J. E. Bowsher and R. J. Jaszczak

Effects of Pinhole Material and Aperture Size on Lesion Contrast and SNR in Breast SPECT417MP Tornai, BC Pieper, JE Bowsher, RJ Jaszczak Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Study of Hole Array Pattern Artifacts in Multihole Collimators244A.R. Formiconi, F. Di Martino, D. Volterrani, A. Passeri

all postersPoster SessionThursday 19 October, 15:00 - 16:30

The Theory And Method Of Spatial Diagnostics And Imaging of Solitary Radioactive or Scattering Sources By The Phenomenon of Radiation Intensity Correlation

3

Vladimir I. Vysotskii

Influence of the Detector Parameters on a Compton Camera50T. Conka-Nurdan, F. Constantinescu, B. Freisleben, H. Kamberaj, K. Nurdan, N. Pavel, I. Rauhut, K. Reichmann, A.H. Walenta

Slat Collimator Design Issues for Dual Head Coincidence Imaging systems100J. Joung, R. Miyaoka, R. Harrison, S. Vannoy and Tom Lewellen.

Performance Measurement of a New High Resolution Detector System for I-131 Thyroid Studies

162

N. Bussmann, R. Engels, G. Kemmerling, R. Reinartz, K.-J. Langen*, J. Schelten**, K. Ziemons

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Recent Results of a High Resolution Animal SPECT277N. Schramm, A. Wirrwar, H. Halling

Design of Rotating Collimator for High Performances Radioisotopic Imaging425A. Pousse, C. Dornier, J. Chavanelle, M. Parmentier, R. Delaite and B. Kastler

Gold Pinhole Collimators for Ultra-High Resolution Tc-99m Small Volume SPECT501Charles R. Tenney

Acceptable Gamma Camera Nonlinearities for SPECT Imaging: Myocardial, Bones, and Hot Lesion

570

EG Hawman, RE Malmin, JC Engdahl

Comparison of Hexagonal-Hole and Square-Hole Collimation by Monte Carlo Simulation581D. J. de Vries and S. C. Moore

Imaging of Focal Liver Lesion using Ordered Subset Expectation Maximization Technique588Tae Joo Jeon, Hee-Joung Kim, Jung-Kyun Bong, Jong Doo Lee, Hyung Sik Yoo

Optimization of Dedicated Scintimammography Procedures Using Small Detector Prototypes and Compressible Phantoms

671

S. Majewski, E. Curran, C. Keppel, D. Kieper, B. Kross, A. Palumbo, V. Popov, A.G. Weisenberger, B. Welch, R. Wojcik,M. B. Williams , A. R. Goode, M. More, and G. Zhang

Evaluating Rotating Slant Hole SPECT with respect to Parallel Hole SPECT.687Girish Bal, Rolf Clackdoyle, Dan J. Kadrmas, Larry G. Zeng and Paul E. Christian. MIRL, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

SPECT Breast Imaging Combining Horizontal and Vertical Axes of Rotation704JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, BC Pieper, RJ Jaszczak

Breast Tumor Imaging Using Tiltable Head SPECT Cameras800Brett C. Pieper, Jörg Peter, Martin P. Tornai, James E. Bowsher, Ronald J. Jaszczak

X-ray Devices including CTOral Session

18’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 13:30 - 15:00

A Detector Response Adaptive Helical Reconstruction Algorithm61Jiang Hsieh and Jay Li

Direct Conversion CdZnTe Detectors for Digital Mammography101Shi Yin, T.O. Tümer, D. Maeding, J. Mainprize, N.L. Ford, G. Mawdsley, M.J.Yaffe, E.E. Gordon and W.J. Hamilton

A New Approach to the Visualization of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformation with Principal Component Analysis.

112

Yoshiyuki Nyui, Koichi Ogawa, and Etsuo Kunieda

Experimental Results with Dual-Energy Penalized Weighted Least-Squares Image Reconstruction for X-ray Transmission Tomography

480

Predrag Sukovic and Neal H. Clinthorne

Low Dose Imaging of Technical and Biological Objects Using Ultrashort X-ray Pulses and Photon Counting Chip

544

J.-P. Giardeau-Montaut et al.

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all postersPoster SessionFriday 20 October, 15:00 - 16:30

A Medical Imaging MicroStrip Chamber13EF Barasch, MC Altunbas, D Bednarek, AM DelBalso, S Rudin, S Gasiecki, JR Knab SUNY Buffalo and M Maier LBNL

Low-dose Tomography with the help of a Proton Beam14V.E.Balakin, E.A.Kushnirenko

Development and Evaluation of a Digital Radiographic System based on CMOS Image Sensor

264

H.K. Kim, G. Cho and Y.H. Shin

Automatic Extraction of Stomach Contour from Barium Filled X-ray Image276Fujio Kobayashi, Makoto Ozaki and Kazuhiro Tsutsumoto

Novel Digital K-Edge Imaging System with Transition Radiation from an 855 MeV Electron Beam

414

F. Hagenbuck, H. Backe et al.

Penalized Weighted Least-Squares as a Metal Streak Artifacts Removal Technique in Computed Tomography

477

Predrag Sukovic and Neal H. Clinthorne

Evaluation of a Novel CCD Camera for Dose Reduction in Digital Radiography552E.J. Harris and G.J. Royle

A Digital Radiology System with Spectral Detection681A. Bernardini, A. Cadeddu, D. Caredda, F. De Vita, M. Caria, A. Lai, P. Randaccio

Study of the Readout of a Storage Phosphor Screen with ADP’s762P. Bruyndonckx, J. De Bruyne, C. Mommaert, S. Tavernier and F. Zanca

Magnified Hard X-ray Microtomography797C. Rau, T. Weitkamp, A. Snigirev, C. G. Schroer, J. Tümmler and B. Lengeler

Gamma-ray Imaging with the Laser-Compton-backscatterrd Photons804Hiroyuki Toyokawa, Hideaki Ohgaki, Tatsushi Shima

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Workshops

Advances in Electronic Portal ImagingPlenary Session

Tuesday 17 October, 14:30 - 18:30

Review of EPI2k: the 6th International Workshop on Electronic Portal Imaging881J. Van de Steene, D. Verellen, G. Storme. Academic Hospital - Free University of Brussels, Brussels. E-mail: jan.vandesteene@az.vub.ac.be

State of the Art in Electronic Detectors for Portal Imaging337Larry E. Antonuk, Ph.D.

Monte Carlo Simulation in Electronic Portal Imaging871Harry Keller

Portal Dose Measurements with Electronic Portal Imaging Devices157Kasper L. Pasma

Portal Imaging and Image Analysis874Marcel van Herk

Basic Science and EntrepreneurshipPlenary Session

Thursday 19 October, 9:00 - 17:00

So You Want to be a High-Tech Entrepreneur?882Alan P. Jeavons

Risk, Communication and Romance. The Basis of a Commercial Company883Tony Anson

The ABC of the Physicist Entrepreneur: from Academia to Business and Commerce, a Personal Journey

884

Roberto Bonino

Applying Physics: from Research to Business!885Klaus Röhrich and Harald Wirth

Scientific Consultancy Experiences by CAT-SCIENCE Bt, Hungary886Sandor Zoletnik

The Development of a Start-up company in Pharmaceuticals - a Personal Experience887Franck Rouaix

Transfer, Entrepreneurship - The Approach of the Steinbeis Foundation888Uwe Haug

Technology Transfer from Space Science Instrumentation889Alan Wells

A UK Approach to the Development of University Intellectual Property890Ken Wittamore

From Research to Venture: the actions of INFM891Carlo Rizzuto

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A Pilot Concept for Researchers in a Public Research Centre. Entrepreneurship Training at the Joint Research Centres of the European Commission

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R. Miege & J. Otto

DAQ 2000: Network Based Event BuildingInvited TalksPlenary Session

35’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 9:00 - 12:30

IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, Current Status and Future Prospects at the LHC.864R.W. Dobinson CERN and M.J.LeVine CERN and BNL

Topical TalksPlenary Session25’ per presentationFriday 20 October, 14:00 - 18:00

The Implementation of the STAR Data Acquisition System using a Myrinet Network862C. Adler, J. M. Landgraf, J. S. Lange, M. J. LeVine, A. Ljubicic, Jr., J. M . Nelson, M. W. Schulz

Farming in the Hera-B Experiment392Hera-B collaboration

Studies of ATM for the ATLAS High Level Triggers869J.Bystricky, D.Calvet, M.Huet, P. Le Du, I.Mandjavidze DAPNIA, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Design and Performance of the DZero Data Acquisition System872G. Briskin, M. Clements, D. Cutts, C. Johnson, A. Karachintsev, K. Kazkaz, S. Mattingly, G. Watts, R. Zeller

Control of Large Scale Distributed DAQ/trigger Systems in the Networked PC era880Brunett, Briskin, Clements, Cutts, Kazkaz, Mattingly, Watts

Quality of Service on Gigabit Ethernet for Event Builder870Y.Yasu(1), Y.Nagasaka(2), Y.Hasegawa(3), A.Manabe(1), M.Nomachi(4), H.Fujii(1), Y.Watase(1) (1) KEK, (2) Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, (3) Shinshu University, (4) Osaka University

Characterizing Ethernet Switches for Use in ATLAS Trigger/DAQ863R.W. Dobinson, Knezo, M.J. LeVine, J. Lokier, B. Martin, C. Meirosu, F. Saka, K. Vella

Event Building in an Intelligent Network Interface Card and Simulation of a Gigabit Ethernet Readout Network for LHCb

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J.-P. Dufey, B. Jost, N. Neufeld, M. Zuin CERN

SNPSPlenary Session

Wednesday 18 October, 9:00 - 15:00

Advanced Digital Signal Processing Technique for Neutron Flux Measurement in a Nuclear Power Plant.

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JC Trama, P Aussignac, J Falaise, J Lefèvre, B Lescop, T Nguyen, P Pasdeloup, C Sudres

Numerical Model of MIT Research Reactor212John A. Bernard and Lin-Wen Hu

Consequences of Lightning Strikes on Nuclear Power Generating Stations901Narinder K. Trehan

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Digital System of Checking a Distribution of Fission Products in Fuel Assembly VVER in Real time during an Overload.

428

Maslov O., Galchenkov O., Suharev K., Oleynik S.

Generic Qualification of the Triconex TRICON Fault Tolerant PLC-based Platform for Safety-Related Applications

820

J. Troy Martel

Floating Monitoring Station for Measurement of Radionuclides Volumetric Activity in Water Reservoirs

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V.Gostilo, A.Sokolov , S.Danengirsh, V.Kondrashov, A.Loupilov, V.Fedotenkov, A.Pchelintsev, S.N.Nekrestjanov, V.F.Kireyev, O.Y.Pichteyev, V.P.Ivanov, D.V.Likov

Tomoraphy applied to the Detection of Actinides by Photofission163Saurel Nicolas, Capdevila Jean-Marc & al

Beam Dump for High Current Electron Beam at JNC237Hayanori Takei and Yasushi Takeda* *Guest Scientist from Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

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