TY - GEN
T1 - Data-processing strategies for crossed-strip gamma-ray detectors
AU - Durko, Heather L.
AU - McDonald, Benjamin S.
AU - Shokouhi, Sepideh
AU - Furenlid, Lars R.
AU - Barrett, Harrison H.
AU - Peterson, Todd E.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Crossed-strip gamma-ray detectors are an attractive option for small-animal SPECT imagers due to their high space-bandwidth product. In systems with independent triggering of the two sides of the detector, advanced data-processing techniques are required to accurately determine gamma-ray interaction locations and energy deposition. Optimal detector operation further relies on rigorous detector characterization in order to achieve detector triggering uniformity and best timing resolution and to permit position and energy estimation with maximum-likelihood methods. We describe algorithms and methods developed for calibrating and characterizing a recently fabricated system based on 1024-strips-per-side 1-mm-thick silicon detectors.
AB - Crossed-strip gamma-ray detectors are an attractive option for small-animal SPECT imagers due to their high space-bandwidth product. In systems with independent triggering of the two sides of the detector, advanced data-processing techniques are required to accurately determine gamma-ray interaction locations and energy deposition. Optimal detector operation further relies on rigorous detector characterization in order to achieve detector triggering uniformity and best timing resolution and to permit position and energy estimation with maximum-likelihood methods. We describe algorithms and methods developed for calibrating and characterizing a recently fabricated system based on 1024-strips-per-side 1-mm-thick silicon detectors.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774181
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774181
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67649192018
SN - 9781424427154
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
SP - 4091
EP - 4094
BT - 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008
T2 - 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008
Y2 - 19 October 2008 through 25 October 2008
ER -