Radiation Detection Systems
Medical Imaging, Industrial Testing, and Security Applications
Samenvatting
• describes new advances in development of detection systems based on CdZnTe (CZT) and CdTe detectors utilizing a direct conversion of radiation to electric signals
• reports a recent progress in technologies and performance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) used for reading the light from scintillators
• explores exciting new application opportunities created by development of the cutting-edge detection technologies in X-ray spectroscopy, Computed Tomography (CT), bone dosimetry, and nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT)
• considers the future use of photon counting detectors in clinical computed tomography (CT) scanners providing K-edge imaging to reduce the amount of contrast agents and ultimately offering both an anatomical and a functional information
• describes, uses of radiation detection systems in security applications such as luggage scanning, dirty bomb detection, and border control