会议名称(英文): Medical Applications of Radiation Detectors IV
所属学科: 光学,同步辐射技术及其应用
开始日期: 2014-08-17
结束日期: 2014-08-21
所在国家: 美国
所在城市: 美国
具体地点: San Diego, California
主办单位: 国际光学和光子学学会
摘要截稿日期: 2014-03-03
联系电话: +1 360 685 5600
E-MAIL: saral@spie.org
会议网站: http://spie.org/OPO/conferencedetails/medical-applications-of-radiation-detectors
会议背景介绍:
The recent development of new radiation detector materials has resulted in great interest in rethinking the design of biomedical imaging systems that make use of gamma-rays or x-rays. Pixellated semiconductor detector arrays of such materials as CdTe or CdZnTe (CZT) hold great promise for improving both the spatial resolution and the energy resolution of imaging detectors; semiconductor detectors are now being incorporated into both clinical nuclear medicine cameras and commercial small-animal imaging systems.
Meanwhile, new scintillators, such as the lanthanide halides and SrI2, have been identified that have high light yield, fast response and improved energy resolution. These new scintillators also have the potential to replace NaI(Tl) or LSO in conventional imaging systems. Continuing research into the new scintillators is driven by the need for better detectors for Positron Emission Tomography (PET), but applications in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) are also contemplated. Parallel improvements in scintillation light detectors such as: better multi-anode PMTs with better quantum efficiency and more pixels, avalanche photodiode arrays, image intensifiers used with CCD cameras and SSPMs, should encourage the development of a new generation of compact imaging systems for biomedicine.
Improvements in electronic readout circuits have similarly driven the development of ever larger semiconductor-detector pixel arrays to the point where applications in digital radiography may soon be practical. The novel properties of the new detector materials and readout technologies can also make possible new types of multimodality imaging systems.
This conference is intended to be of interest to a broad range of researchers, from those developing new detectors that might have medical applications, to those developing medical imaging systems, or testing them in the clinic, to those just interested in what medical imaging possibilities are on the horizon.
征文范围及要求:
We invite submission of papers on, but not limited to, the following topics:
new applications of semiconductor detectors in medicine (CdZnTe, CdTe, TlBr, Ge, Si, etc.) medical applications of new scintillators (LaBr3:Ce, LaCl3:Ce, elpasolites, SrI2, etc...) novel small-animal x-ray/gamma-ray imaging systems, including multi-modality systems new imaging configurations for PET or SPECT collimators for imaging optics for medical x-ray or gamma-ray imaging medical applications of Compton imaging pixelated imagers for digital radiography small gamma cameras or detector systems for intraoperative use improved detectors for portal imaging metrology for new clinical radiology systems gamma-ray or x-ray microscopy compact, portable instruments for biomedical imaging biomedical neutron imaging.