The ISPA-tube, an imaging single photon detector

by D. Puertolas (INFN-ROME)

Monday 18 Oct 1999, 11:00 → 11:15 Europe/Zurich

13-2- (CERN)

The Imaging Silicon Pixel Array (ISPA)-tube is a position-sensitive photon detector based on hybrid technology. Originally developed at CERN for particle tracking with scintillating fibbers, this kind of device has demonstrated excellent intrinsic erformances as well as an interesting flexibility. So it can be exploited for many other purposes: for instance, by coupling it to adapted scintillating detectors, we have built either g- or b-cameras, achieving spatial resolutions as good as ~100 mm. Several tube prototypes have already been manufactured according to various designs. An overview of the most significant achievements will be presented with a particular attention paid to g-imaging investigations. An outlook of present and future studies, aimed at developing a new detector that could be used for SPECT applications in nuclear medicine, will also be presented.

Organiser(s): Rui Ribeiro /EP Division

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