Title :
Gamma-ray tracking for Ge telescope Compton camera imaging
Author :
Fukuchi, Tomonori ; Motomura, Shinji ; Kanayama, Yousuke ; Haba, Hiromitsu ; Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ; Enomoto, Shuichi
Author_Institution :
RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science, 6-7-3 Minatojima minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
Abstract :
In order to improve the performance of a Ge Compton camera system, γ-ray tracking technique which determines the γ-ray multi-scattering sequence in a crystal is implemented. Using this tracking technique with optimized parameters, imaging sensitivity increases by a factor of 3.7 in the case of 1115-keV γ-ray energy.
Keywords :
Cameras; Detectors; Electromagnetic scattering; Energy resolution; Kinematics; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Optical imaging; Particle scattering; Prototypes; Telescopes;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Dresden, Germany
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1095-7863
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4775090
