8th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors

from Monday, 1 September 2008 (08:30) to Friday, 5 September 2008 (14:10)
University of Glasgow

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Sept 2008
2 Sept 2008
3 Sept 2008
4 Sept 2008
5 Sept 2008
AM
09:00
Registration Opens (until 09:15) ()
09:15 --- Coffee and Registration ---
10:20
Opening speeches and welcome (until 10:50) ()
10:20 A word of welcome - Prof. Muir Russell KCB, DL, FRSE (The University of Glasgow)   ()
10:35 Special Announcement - First tracks reconstructed from LHC beam in the LHCb VELO. - Chris Parkes (Department of Physics and Astronomy)   ()
Slides
10:50
Novel Gas-based Detection Techniques (until 12:50) ()
10:50 Novel Gas-based Detection Techniques - Prof. Harry van der Graaf   ()
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11:30 A new design of MPGD: Micro-Mesh Micro-Pixel Chamber - Atsuhiko Ochi (Department of Physics)   ()
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11:50 An investigation of the position resolution of the HOTWAX detector - Dr Dominic Duxbury (RAL, STFC)   ()
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12:10 A new generation of GEM detectors and their applications - Vladimir Peskov (Pole Universitaire Leonardo de Vinci)   ()
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12:30 Development of multi-tubes detectors at the ILL - Dr Guiliana Manzin   ()
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08:30 --- Coffee and registration ---
09:00
Applications in Nuclear Physics (until 10:40) ()
09:00 What the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array can do for us: Nuclear science in the 21st century - Dr Andrew Boston   ()
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09:40 Micromegas tracker project for CLAS12 - Jacques Ball (DAPNIA)   ()
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10:00 Characterisation of a pixellated CsI detector for gamma-ray imaging - Mr Martin Jones   ()
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10:20 Position sensitivity of the proposed segmented germanium detectors for the DESPEC project - Mr Anton Khaplanov   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Applications in Nuclear Physics (until 11:50) ()
11:10 Gamma-ray tracking and background suppression in the planned germanium array of DESPEC: a comparative analysis - Mr Anton Khaplanov   ()
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11:30 Performance of an AGATA prototype detector estimated by Compton-imaging techniques - Dr Francesco Recchia   ()
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11:50
Applications in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology (until 12:50) ()
11:50 Applications of position sensitive detectors in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology - Prof. Alex Elliott   ()
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12:30 Position Sensitive Scintillator Based Detector Improvements by Means of an Integrated Front-End - Prof. Vicente Herrero-Bosch   ()
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08:30 --- Coffee and registration ---
09:00
Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation and Spallation Neutron Sources (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation and Spallation Neutron Sources - Prof. Roger Eccleston   ()
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09:40 Synchrotron x-ray applications of pixel/strip detectors at Diamond - Dr Julien Marchal   ()
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10:00 A protype X-ray imaging system using pixelated energy resolving detectors - Prof. Conny Hansson   ()
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10:20 Fabrication and simulation of Novel Ultra Thin 3D Silicon Detector - Plasma Diagnostics - Dr Giulio Pellegrini (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica CNM-IMB-CSIC)   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Detectors for Synchrotron Radiation and Spallation Neutron Sources (until 12:10) ()
11:10 Characterization of a 1-D perforated diode neutron detector array - Mr Walter McNeil   ()
Paper
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11:30 Progress on the Aberystwyth Electron Counting Array - Dr Dave Langstaff (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)   ()
Paper
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11:50 Detectors for X-Ray Coherent Diffractive Imaging - Dr Christopher Hall   ()
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08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:00
Applications in Particle Physics (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Applications in Particle Physics - Themis Bowcock (University of Liverpool)   ()
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09:40 The Atlas SCT: Commissioning experience and SLHC Upgrade - Jovan Mitrevski (Santa Cruz Inst. for Particle Phys. (SCIPP) - Univ. of Californi)   ()
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10:00 CMS Tracker upgrade issues and plans - Alexander Dierlamm (University of Karlsruhe)   ()
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10:20 Studies on Charge Collection Efficiencies for Planar Silicon Detectors after Doses up to 10e15 neq/cm2 - Phil Allport (U. of Liverpool)   ()
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10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:10
Applications in Particle Physics (until 12:30) ()
11:10 TCT & test beam results of irradiated magnetic Czochralski silicon (MCz-Si) detectors - Dr Panja-Riina Luukka (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)   ()
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11:30 3D detectors - Ulrich Parzefall (Fakultaet fuer Physik)   ()
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11:50 Radiation Hardness Studies of Polycrystalline & Single-crystal Chemical Vapor Deposition Diamond for High Luminosity Tracking Detectors - Harris Kagan (Ohio State University)   ()
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12:10 Planar Edgeless Silicon Detectors for the TOTEM Experiment - Dr Gennaro Ruggiero (CERN)   ()
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08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:00
Pixel Detectors for Charged Particles (until 10:40) ()
09:00 Pixel Detectors for Charged Particles - Norbert Wermes (Physikalisches Institut)   ()
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09:40 Monolithic Pixel Sensors in 0.15um Fully Depleted SOI Technology - Dr Devis Contarato (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
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10:00 Improved spatial resolution analysis of micron resultion silicon pixel detectors based on beam and laser tests - Dr Peter Kodys (Charles University)   ()
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10:20 Generation of Deep N-well CMOS MAPS with In-Pixel Sparsification for the ILC Vertex Detector - Dr Gianluca Traversi (University of Bergamo)   ()
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10:40
Poster Session 4 - Synchrotron Detectors and Pixel Detectors (until 11:30) ()
10:40 A 4096-pixel MAPS device with on-chip data sparsification - Dr Alessandro Gabrielli (Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Bologna)   ()
Paper
10:40 Characterisation of HEPAPS4 - a family of CMOS active pixel sensors for charged particle detection - Mr Dzmitry Maneuski   ()
10:40 Characterization of double-sided 3D Medipix 2 detectors - Dr Celeste Fleta (University of Glasgow)   ()
10:40 Design and Operation of a 2d thin film semiconductor neutron detector for use as a beamport monitor - Mr Troy Unruh   ()
Poster
10:40 Detection efficiency spatial and timing resolution of thermal and cold neutron counting MCP detectors - Dr Anton Tremsin   ()
Poster
10:40 Development of new Atlas Pixel front-end IC for upgraded LHC luminosity - Dr Marlon Barbero (Physikalisches Institute, Universitaet Bonn)   ()
10:40 eLeNA: A Parametric CMOS Active Pixel Sensor for the evaluation of noise reduction architectures - Dr Thalis Anaxagoras   ()
10:40 Modelling a Hybrid Pixel Detector for Coherent X-ray Diffractive Imaging - Mr Evan Curwood   ()
10:40 Plastic Scintillator-based Radiation Detector for Mobile Radiation Detection System against Nuclear/Radiological Terror - Sung-Woo Kwak (KINAC)   ()
10:40 Position sensitive detectors of the detector group at Julich - Mr Ralf Engels   ()
10:40 Profile monitors for pulsed antiproton beams used by the ASACUSA experiemnt at Cern's antiproton decelerator - Dr Masaki Hori   ()
10:40 Radiation detection and readout based on the latchup effect - Dr Giullio villani (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   ()
10:40 Reduction of multiple triggering in counting detectors - Dr Dave Langstaff (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)   ()
Poster
10:40 Time-Resolved Neutron Imaging System Using a High-Frame-Rate CMOS Camera for TOF Neutron Radiography - Tatsuya Nakamura (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)   ()
11:30
Pixel Detectors for Charged Particles (until 12:30) ()
11:30 The CMS pixel detector - Dr Freya Blekman (Cornell University)   ()
Slides
11:50 Photon counting microstrip detector for time resolved powder diffraction experiments - Dr Anna Bergamaschi   ()
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12:10 First Testbeam Results from the ISIS1 Detector - Dr David Cussans (University of Bristol)   ()
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PM
12:50 --- Lunch ---
13:50
Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics (until 15:50) ()
13:50 Optical and IR Applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Prof. Ian McLean   ()
Poster
Slides
14:30 The role of position sensing in adaptive optics - Dr Christopher Saunter (University of Durham)   ()
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14:50 Electron multiplication CCDs for astronomical applications - Dr Ives Derek   ()
Paper
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15:10 Instrumentation for sub-mm astronomy - Dr Adam Woodcraft   ()
Paper
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15:30 HEXITEC ASIC - a Pixellated Readout Chip for CZT Detectors - Lawrence Jones (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)   ()
Slides
15:50 --- Coffee ---
16:20
Detectors for Astrophysics and Astro-Particle Physics (until 18:20) ()
16:20 X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors for Astrophysics - Prof. Jürgen Knödlseder   ()
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17:00 DM-TPC: a TPC with optical readout for directional detection of dark matter - Prof. Herman Wellenstein   ()
17:20 Performance results from the first ZEPLIN-III science run - Henrique Araujo (Unknown)   ()
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17:40 X-ray detectors for Astronomy and Space Applications - Prof. Andrew Holland   ()
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18:00 Imaging performances of the DRAGO gamma camera - Prof. Carlo Fiorini (Politecnico di Milano and INFN Italy)   ()
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19:00
Civic reception (until 21:00) ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
13:50
Applications in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology (until 15:10) ()
13:50 Image-transfer properties of a microCT system based on a flat panel detector - Dr Martinez-Davalos   ()
Slides
14:10 Boron imaging with a microstrip silicon detector for application in BNCT - Mr Andrea Mattera   ()
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14:30 Active pixel sensors in nuclear medicine imaging - Prof. Robert Ott (Institute of Cancer Research)   ()
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14:50 Image-guided radiotherapy using active pixel technology - John Osmond   ()
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15:10
Poster Session 1 - Astrophysics, Space, Gaseous and Novel Photon detectors (until 16:10) ()
15:10 Cellular Automaton Based Position Sensitive Detector Equalization - Mr Nestor Ferrando   ()
Poster
15:10 CF4-filled micropattern detector aiming neutron imaging - Mr Hugo Natal da Luz   ()
15:10 GASTONE a new ASIC for the cylindrical GEM Inner Tracker of KLOE experiment at DAFNE - Dr Antonio Ranieri (INFN Bari)   ()
Paper
15:10 Hybrid charge preamplifters - design methodology & performance limits - Dr Goran Panjkovic   ()
15:10 Hybrid Photon Detectors for the LHCb RICH: performance and operational experience - Laurence Carson (Unknown)   ()
15:10 Image Charge Multi-Role and Function Detectors - Dr James Milnes   ()
15:10 Improving Quantum Efficiency and Spectral Resolution of a CCD: Investigating Angle of X-ray Incidence - Mr Craig Brown   ()
15:10 Large Active Rejection Detectors measuring inization and heat simulaneously for the Edelweiss collaboration - Mr Xavier Francois Navick   ()
15:10 Optical & Electrical Characterization of a backthinned CMOS Active Pixel Sensor - Dr Andrew Blue (University of Glasgow)   ()
15:10 Reborn quadrant anode image sensor - Mr Yury Prokazov   ()
15:10 Scintillation characteristics and imaging performance of CsI:Tl thin films for X-ray imaging applications - Dr Bo Kyung Cha   ()
15:10 The GEM-based Neutron detector - Dr Alexadner Klyachko   ()
15:10 The use of automatic scale selection to improve the spatial and spectral resolution of a scintillator-coupled EMCCD - Mr David Hall   ()
Poster
15:10 The X-ray quantum efficiency measurement of a high resistivity CCD - Mr Neil Murray   ()
Poster
16:10
Position Sensitive Detectors for Biology (until 17:50) ()
16:10 A Biological Position Sensitive Detector - Alan Litke (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP))   ()
Slides
16:50 Photon detection with CMOS sensors for fast imaging - Jerome Baudot (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))   ()
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17:10 Position Sensitive Electron Detection for TEM with column parallel CCD - Dr Grigore Moldovan   ()
17:30 High spatial resolution probes for neurobiology applications - Dr Deborah Gunning (The University of Glasgow)   ()
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17:50
Whisky tasting (until 19:10) ()
19:10
Ceilidh (until 23:00) ()
12:10
Applications in Space Science (until 12:50) ()
12:10 X- and gamma-ray detector development for space applications - Prof. Alan Owens   ()
Slides
12:50 --- Lunch ---
13:50
Applications in Space Science (until 15:10) ()
13:50 The effect of protons on the performance of swept-charge devices - Prof. David Smith   ()
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14:10 Performance of a multi-anode photomultiplier employing a ultra bi-alkali photo cathode and ragged dynodes - Mr Takahito Toizumi   ()
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14:30 Silicon Carbide X-ray Detectors for Planetary Exploration - Dr John Lees   ()
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14:50 The GLAST Large Area Telescope - Dr Luca Baldini   ()
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15:10
Poster Session 2 - PPE & Nuclear (until 16:10) ()
15:10 Application of Pulse Shape analysis to In-Beam EXOGAM data - Mr Carl Unsworth   ()
15:10 CMS Tracker alignment strategy and first results obtained from cosmic muon tracks - Jan Olzem (I. Physikalisches Institut (B))   ()
15:10 Commissioning of the atlas pixel detector - Tobias Golling (LBNL)   ()
Poster
15:10 Degradation of high resistivity FZ and Magnetic CZ N-type Silicon detectors subjected to 2-MeV Electron Irradiation - Dr Joan Marc Rafi   ()
Poster
15:10 Delay-Line Readout Method Research - Dr Yi Zhou   ()
Paper
Poster
15:10 Development of linseed oil-free Bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers - Prof. Bhattacharya Sudeb (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India)   ()
Paper
Poster
15:10 Electrical properties of the sensitive side in Si edgeless strip detectors developed for TOTEM Experiment - Dr Elena Verbitskaya   ()
15:10 FinnCRack a cosmic muon telescope for detector studies - Teppo Maenpaa (Helsinki Institute of Physics)   ()
15:10 First particle results for the HEPAPS4 characterisation - Mr Andrew Laing   ()
15:10 Laser and Beta source setup characterization of 3D -DDTC detectors fabricated at FBK-irst - Andrea Zoboli (Universita degli Studi di Trento)   ()
Poster
15:10 Positron spectrometer of MEG experiment at PSI - Prof. Oleg Kiselev   ()
15:10 Precise measurement of the very rare decay $K^+ \to \pi^+ \nu \bar{\nu}$ - Sergei Movchan (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))   ()
15:10 Recent results on the performace of irradiated LHCb VELO detectors - Themis Bowcock (Department of Physics)   ()
15:10 Sensor concepts for future hybrid pixel detectors - Fabian Georg Huegging (Unknown)   ()
Poster
15:10 Sensor R&D for CMS Tracker upgrade - Dr Ozhan Koybasi   ()
15:10 Simple parallel to serial stream converter for Active Pixel Sensor readout for experiment STAR - Vasilii Kushpil (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR))   ()
15:10 Status of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker and commissioning results - Ioana Maria Anghel (University of Illinois at Chicago)   ()
Poster
15:10 The CMS Tracker Detector Control System - Yousaf Shah   ()
Poster
15:10 The EUDET High Resolution Pixel Telescope - Mr Philipp Roloff (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))   ()
Poster
15:10 The prototype of the MICE Electron Muon Ranger: design, construction and test - Ms Daniela Lietti   ()
15:10 The RICH system of the LHCb experiment: status and performance - Andrew Pickford (University of Glasgow)   ()
Poster
15:10 The Trigger system of the Alice Muon Spectrometer at LHC - Pascal Dupieux (Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire (LPC))   ()
16:10
Novel Photon Detection Systems (until 18:10) ()
16:10 Novel Photon Detection Systems - Prof. Mikhail Danilov   ()
Slides
16:50 Advances in the phtodetection technologies for Cherenkov imaging applications - Dr Eugenio Nappi (INFN Sezione di Bari)   ()
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17:10 Avalanche photodiodes and Vacuum Phototriodes for the Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider - Peter Hobson (Detector Development Group)   ()
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17:30 The multidimensional integrated intelligent imaging project (M-I3) - Dr Phil Evans   ()
Animation
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17:50 A high throughput, multi -channel photon counting detector with picosecond timing - Dr Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)   ()
Slides
18:10
Hunterian Museum Visit (until 20:00) ()
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Gas Pixel Detectors (until 15:10) ()
13:30 Gas Pixel Detectors and Beyond - Ronaldo Bellazzini (INFN Pisa)   ()
Slides
14:10 New micromegas detectors in the CAST experiment - Galan Lacarra Javier (Instituto de Fisica Nuclear y Altas Energias - Facultad de Cienc)   ()
Paper
Slides
14:30 First results of the PixelGEM central tracking system of COMPASS - Florian Haas (Technische Universitat Munchen)   ()
Slides
14:50 A novel large-volume spherical detector with proportional amplification read-out - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   ()
Slides
15:10
Poster Session 3 - Medical, PET and Biological (until 16:10) ()
15:10 A High Speed PC-Based Data Acquisition & Control System for Positron Imaging - Mr Thomas Leadbeater   ()
Poster
15:10 A semiconductor compton camera system in SPECT mode - Mr Alexander Grint   ()
15:10 Analysis of time resolution in a dual head LSO+PSPMT PET system using low pass filter interpoilation and DCFD techniques - Mr Jose M Monzo   ()
Poster
15:10 Comparison of the data obtained by PEPT technique for stationary and rotating particle on two detectors - Dr Alireza Sadrmomtaz   ()
15:10 Design and Fabrication of PDE enhanced SiPM with Micro-lens - Chae hun Lee (KAIST)   ()
15:10 Feasibility study of high sensitive LaBr3 PET scanner based on the DOI-dependent extended-energy window - Dr Eiji Yoshida (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)   ()
Paper
15:10 High-Precision Position Estimation in PET using Artificial Neural Networks - Fernando Mateo (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)   ()
15:10 Imaging with pixellated CdZnTe detectors for use in a Portable Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (PorGamrayS) - Mr Matthew Dimmock   ()
15:10 K-edge subtraction using an energy sensitive PSD - Dr Christopher Hall   ()
15:10 Low-aftergloe CsI:T1 microcolumnar fils for small animal high-speed microCT - Dr Bipin Singh   ()
Poster
15:10 Maximum likelihood positioning for gamma ray imaging detectors with depth of interactions measurement - Dr Christoph Werner Lerche (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)   ()
Poster
15:10 Optimisation of a Dual Head Semiconductor Compton Camera using Geant4 - Ms Laura Harkness   ()
Poster
15:10 Performance evaultion for pinhole collimators of small gamma camera by MTF and NNPS Analysis; Monte Carlo simulation st - Mr Gyuseong Cho   ()
15:10 Prelimary Monto carlo study of 18-FDG SPECT Imaging with a LaBr3@Ce Gamma Camera - Mr Khalid Alzimami   ()
15:10 Quantifying the limitations of small animal high-purity germanium PET based on Geant4 simulations - Mr David Oxley   ()
15:10 The Detective Quantum Efficiency of Electron Area Detectors - Dr Wasi Faruqi   ()
15:10 Wavelength shifting fibre neutron image detector with a fibre optic taper for a high spatial resolution - Dr Tatsuya Nakamura   ()
16:10
PET applications (until 18:30) ()
16:10 Advances in Position Sensitive Detectors for PET applications - Alberto del Guerra   ()
Slides
16:50 Development of large-area reverse-type APD arrays for high-resolution medical imaging - Dr Jun Kataoka   ()
Paper
Slides
17:10 Development of a low-noise analog front-end ASIC for APD-PET detectors - Mr Makoto Koizumi   ()
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17:30 In search of exotic events for positron emison tomography: a GAMMASPHERE experiment - Dr Mary Chin   ()
17:50 Design construction & characterisation of a benchtop microPET system based on LYSO crystal arrays & Hamamatsu H8500 - Dr Mercedes Rodriguez-Villafuerte   ()
Slides
18:10 Positron emission particle tracking using a modular positron camera - Dr David Parker (University of Birmingham)   ()
Slides
19:15
Conference Dinner (until 23:00) ()
12:30
Summary and closing remarks (until 12:50) ()
12:30 Conference Summary - Prof. Phil Allport (U. of Liverpool)   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---