High spatial resolution γ-camera devoted to characterization of electrical response in HPGe segmented detectors

Author

Hernández-Prieto, A. ; Quintana, B. ; Barrientos, D.

Author_Institution

Lab. de Radiaciones Ionizantes, Univ. of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

23-29 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

1506

Lastpage

1509

Abstract

Characterization of the electrical response of the HPGe segmented detectors is one of the current goals for the Nuclear Physics community in order to perform γ-ray tracking or even imaging with these detectors. For this purpose, scanning devices have to be developed to achieve the signal-position association with the highest precision. In our laboratory, a new scanning system, SALSA, acronym of SAlamanca Lyso-based Scanning Array, consisting on a high spatial resolution γ camera is under development. In this work the SALSA system is presented and the results for the characterization of the γ camera are shown.

Keywords

cameras; gamma-ray detection; germanium radiation detectors; photomultipliers; position sensitive particle detectors; scintillation counters; HPGe segmented detectors; SALSA system; SAlamanca Lyso-based Scanning Array; electrical response; gamma-ray tracking; high spatial resolution gamma camera; nuclear physics community; pixilated position-sensitive photomultiplier tube; position sensitive gamma-ray scintillator detector; scanning devices; scanning system; signal-position association; Artificial intelligence; Pixilated Position-Sensitive PhotoMultiplier Tube (PSPMT); Position Sensitive γ-ray scintillator Detector (PSD); SAlamanca Lyso-based Scanning Array (SALSA);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Valencia

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0118-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154357

Filename

6154357