Estimation of energy range measurements with newly developed Si/CdTe Compton camera for nuclear medicine imaging

Author

Yamaguchi, Mitsutaka ; Kawachi, Naoki ; Kamiya, Tomihiro ; Suzui, Nobuo ; Fujimaki, Shu ; Odaka, Hirokazu ; Ishikawa, Shinnosuke ; Kokubun, Motohide ; Watanabe, Shin ; Takahashi, Tadayuki ; Shimada, Hirofumi ; Arakawa, Kazuo ; Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ; Torikai,

Author_Institution

Takasaki Adv. Radiat. Res. Inst., Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 30 2010-Nov. 6 2010

Firstpage

1491

Lastpage

1493

Abstract

In this paper, we report the estimations of the lower detection limits of gamma ray energy for a newly developed Compton camera for applications to nuclear medicine imaging. We performed simulation studies to investigate the relationship of the distance between the scatterer and absorber detectors with the lower detection limit. In addition, imaging tests were performed by using multiple sources.

Keywords

Compton effect; II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; elemental semiconductors; radioisotope imaging; silicon; silicon radiation detectors; wide band gap semiconductors; Compton camera; Si-CdTe; absorber detectors; energy range measurements; gamma ray energy; lower detection limits; nuclear medicine imaging; scatterer detectors; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Detectors; Gamma rays; Scattering; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Knoxville, TN

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9106-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874024

Filename

5874024