Search Results - "Herbert, D.J."
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The Silicon Photomultiplier for application to high-resolution Positron Emission Tomography
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (01-04-2007)“…Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for small animal studies requires high-resolution gamma cameras with high sensitivity. Traditionally, inorganic…”
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First results of scintillator readout with silicon photomultiplier
Published in IEEE transactions on nuclear science (01-02-2006)“…A new type of silicon device has been realized that has many properties comparable to, or better than, a conventional PMT (Photomultiplier Tube). This paper…”
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Investigating the energy resolution of arrays of small scintillation crystals
Published in IEEE transactions on nuclear science (01-06-2002)“…Arrays of small scintillation crystals are being used increasingly for high-resolution imaging applications in nuclear medicine. Although the degree of…”
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Study of SiPM as a potential photodetector for scintillator readout
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (01-11-2006)“…The Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) APD represents an interesting advance in photodetection and could soon be a rival to traditional PMTs in many applications…”
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Performance of 1-mm2 Silicon Photomultiplier
Published in IEEE journal of quantum electronics (01-02-2008)“…The peak photon detection efficiency of 15% occurs at 500 nm with a cooled () dark rate of 600 at a bias voltage of 31 V. In a test for positron emission…”
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Characterisation of crystal matrices and single pixels for nuclear medicine applications
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (21-01-2005)“…Commercially constructed crystal matrices are characterised for use with PSPMT detectors for PET system developments and other nuclear medicine applications…”
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Performance of 1- }^ Silicon Photomultiplier
Published in IEEE journal of quantum electronics (01-02-2008)“…A silicon photomultiplier (SPM) is a large area detector consisting of a parallel array of photon counting microcells. Each microcell consists of a Geiger Mode…”
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A small-animal PET design using SiPMs and Anger logic with intrinsic DOI
Published in IEEE Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science 2004 (2004)“…In this study a miniature, high-resolution detector head for a small-animal PET imaging system that has intrinsic depth of interaction (DOI) information is…”
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First results of scintillator readout with silicon photomultiplier
Published in IEEE Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science 2004 (2004)“…A new type of silicon device has been realised that has many properties comparable to or better than a conventional PMT (photomultiplier tube). This paper…”
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Investigating the energy resolution of arrays of small scintillation crystals
Published in 2001 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (Cat. No.01CH37310) (2001)“…Arrays of small scintillation crystals are being used increasingly for high-resolution imaging applications in nuclear medicine. Although the degree of…”
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Design and feasibility study of an ultra-fast high resolution PET detector
Published in 2001 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (Cat. No.01CH37310) (2001)“…In this paper, we present the design and the results of a feasibility study of a novel, ultra-fast and high-resolution PET detector. It is based on the use of…”
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A compact PET detector array using wavelength shifting fibres
Published in 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record. 1999 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.99CH37019) (1999)“…The basis for a design of a high-resolution PET imaging system, utilising a wavelength-shifting (WLS) fibre readout technique is presented here. Scintillation…”
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Investigation of a pre-operative lymph node imager using an M-HPD
Published in 1999 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record. 1999 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No.99CH37019) (1999)“…Describes the design of a fast imaging system aimed at providing the accurate location of the centroid of a sentinel lymph node. Through the proposed use of a…”
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Novel high resolution detectors for Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Published in Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement (01-09-2003)“…In this paper we present some recent results we have obtained in the development of detectors for small animal PET and for PEM, based on the use of Position…”
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