Name: International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (IWORID04)
Start: 2004-07-25T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2004-07-29T13:30:00+02:00
Location: Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow

International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (IWORID04)

from Sunday, 25 July 2004 (10:00) to Thursday, 29 July 2004 (13:30)

Monday, 19 July 2004
Tuesday, 20 July 2004
Wednesday, 21 July 2004
Thursday, 22 July 2004
Friday, 23 July 2004
Saturday, 24 July 2004
Sunday, 25 July 2004
10:00 Outing to Scottish Highlands
10:00 - 18:00
Contributions

10:00 Leave Glasgow

11:00 Visit Callander

12:00 Visit Trossachs Woollen Mill - lady with spinning wheel

13:15 Leave Callander

13:45 Boat trip on SS Sir Walter Scott

15:00 Leave Loch Katrine

15:30 Visit Aberfoyle

16:00 Leave Aberfoyle

16:30 Visit Dumgoyne Distillery - PR Assistant
18:00 Welcome Drinks & Registration

18:00 - 20:00

Monday, 26 July 2004
09:00 Opening Session
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:15 Welcoming Address - Prof. David Saxon (Dean of Faculty of Physical Sciences)
09:30 Industrial Exhibition

09:30 - 17:30
Lunch / Industrial Exhibition
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Keithley Instruments

09:30 OneCall (Farnell)

09:30 Agilent Technologies

09:30 Applied Scintillation Technologies

09:30 Gesec R&D

09:30 Metprep
Solid State Radiation Detectors
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 Invited talk - Semiconductor track detectors: a brief history from 0D to 3D - Prof. Sherwood Parker (University of Hawaii)

10:00 Invited talk - Diamond (Radiation Detectors) are for ever! - Prof. Harris Kagan (Ohio State University)
10:30 Morning Coffee

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 X-ray Detectors
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Invited talk - Pixel detector arrays for X-ray Astronomy - Prof. George Fraser (Leicester University)

11:30 Optimization of X-ray dynamic defectoscopy using Medipix-2 for high frame rate read-out - D. Vavrik (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of CTU, Prague)

11:45 Digital X-ray portable scanner based on monolithic semi-insulating GaAs detectors: General description and first ‘quantum’ images - A. Perdochova (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava)

12:00 Influence of Backscattering on the Spatial Resolution of Semiconductor X-ray Detectors - M. Hoheisel (Siemens AG, Nurnberg)

12:15 Material Reconstruction with Spectroscopic Pixel X-ray Detectors - J.Giersch (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)
13:30 Compound Materials
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Resolution degradation of semiconductor detectors due to incomplete charge collection - A. G. Kozorezov (Lancaster University)

13:45 PbI2 as a direct semiconductor for use in radiation imaging detectors - G. C. Tyrrell (AST, Harlow)

14:00 Electronic and ionic processes influence on electrical and photoelectrical properties of TlBr crystals - J. Vaitkus (Vilnius University)

14:15 The influence of tellurium precipitates on mobility in CdTe - A. W. Davies (University of Surrey)

14:30 Characterisation of TlBr Crystals for Detector Applications - V. Kozlov (University of Helsinki)

14:45 Experimental Simulation of a Spectroscopic Pixel X-Ray Detector - C. Reinhart (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)
15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Synchrotron Applications
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Invited talk - 4th generation light sources and demands on detectors - Prof. Edwin Westbrook

16:00 GaN UV detectors for synchrotron-based protein structure studies - A. Blue (Glasgow University)

16:15 Looking into dynamical diffraction: Using the sensor crystal of the Medipix2 for both diffraction and observation of X-rays - M. Mitschke (University of Erlangen)

16:45 State of the art on epitaxial GaAs detectors - G.C. Sun (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI))
18:00 Whisky Tasting / Buffet Dinner

18:00 - 19:00

20:00 Ceilidh (traditional Scottish evening)

20:00 - 23:55
Tuesday, 27 July 2004
09:00 Medical Imaging
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Invited talk - MRI vs. X-ray imaging - Prof. Alex Elliott (Glasgow University)

09:45 Performances of different digital mammography imaging systems: evaluation and comparison - M. G. Bisogni (Universita di Pisa and INFN)

10:00 Energy Dependence in Dental Imaging with Medipix - B. Norlin (Mid-Sweden University)

10:15 First DQE measurement of 500 um silicon hybrid pixel sensor with Photon Counting readout for X-ray medical imaging - B. Surre (University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand)
10:30 Morning Coffee

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 PET and Compton Imaging
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Invited talk - Phosphors and scintillators in radiation imaging detectors - Dr. Glenn Tyrrell (AST, Harlow)

11:30 Design of the coincidence processing board for a dual-head Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner for breast imaging - J. D. Martinez (Universidad Politecnica di Valencia)

11:45 High Spatial Resolution of Depth-of-Interaction in PET-LSO - A. Simon (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

12:00 Design of Scintillator Arrays for Dual-End Depth-of-Interaction Encoding Small-Animal PET Detectors - K. C. Burr (GE Research, Niskayuna, NY)

12:15 Development of an advanced Compton camera with gaseous TPC and scintillator - A. Takada (Kyoto University)
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Particle Physics Applications
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 The NA60 Silicon Vertex Spectrometer - K. Banicz (University of Heidelberg)

13:45 The LHCb Silicon Tracker - H. Voss (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne)

14:00 Status and Performance of the CDF Run II Silicon Detector - R. S. Wallny (UCLA)

14:15 A Silicon Vertex Tracker Upgrade for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC - J. M. Heuser (RIKEN)

14:30 The ATLAS Pixel Detector: a hundred million channels vertex detector for LHC - G. Gagliardi (University of Genoa and INFN)

14:45 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors of LHCb - L. Somerville (University of Oxford)
15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Gaseous Detectors
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Invited talk - Fast read-out pixel front-ends for adaptive optics in very large telescopes - Dr. John Vallerga (LBNL, U.S.A)

16:00 The readout of gaseous detectors by means of a Micromegas-covered pixel-segmented CMOS anode - A. Fornaini (NIKHEF, Amsterdam)

16:15 HPD set-up tests of backside illuminated monolithic CMOS pixel sensor - W. Dulinski (LEPSI, Strasbourg)

16:30 Invited talk - Readout of the LHCb pixel hybrid photon detector - Dr. Ken Wyllie (CERN)
17:00 Conference Reception

17:00 - 18:30
Wednesday, 28 July 2004
09:00 Novel Applications I
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Invited talk - Pixel detectors for retinal imaging - Prof. Alan Litke (SCIPP,UC Santa Cruz, USA)

09:30 30 um Spacing 519-Electrode Arrays for In-Vitro Retinal Studies - D. Gunning (Glasgow University)

09:45 Direct Detection of 120 keV Electrons in a 525 by 525 pixel CMOS Detector - A. R. Faruqi (MRC Lab. Of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

10:00 Spatial Resolution of the Medipix-2 as Neutron Pixel Detector - J. Jakubek (IEAP, Czech Technical University)
10:30 Morning Coffee

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Novel Applications II
11:00 - 11:45
Contributions

11:00 CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for Ionising Radiation - A. Evans (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)

11:15 Design and test of a data acquisition system based on USB interface for the Medipix 2 chip. - P. Randaccio (INFN di Cagliari, Italy.)

11:30 Development of Flexible Arrays for in-vivo neuronal Recording and Stimulation - C. Adams (Glasgow University)
11:45 Radiation Hard Detectors I
11:45 - 12:30
Contributions

11:45 Studies of bulk damage induced in different silicon materials by 900 MeV electron irradiation - S. Dittongo (INFN Sezione di Trieste, Italy)

12:00 Radiation hardness of graded-gap AlxGa1-xAs X-ray detectors - A. Silenas (Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius)

12:15 The LHCb Vertex Locator - L. Eklund (CERN)
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Radiation Hard Detectors II
13:30 - 15:15
Contributions

13:30 Invited talk - Recent Developments on Radiation Hard Semiconductor Detectors for SuperLHC - Dr. Michael Moll (CERN)

14:00 Analysis and Simulation of Charge Collection Efficiency in Si Thin Detectors - M. Petasecca (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna)

14:15 Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Detectors for Harsh Radiation Environments - W. Cunningham on behalf of J. Grant (Glasgow University)

14:30 Evolution of Detrapping Currents for a-Si FETs Exposed to Radiation - S. Zelakiewicz (General Electric – Global Research, Niskayuna, NY)

14:45 Measurements and Simulations of Charge Collection Efficiency of p+/n Junction SiC Detectors - F. Moscatelli (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna)

15:00 3D Silicon and radiation hardness - C. Da Via (Brunel university)
15:15 Afternoon Tea

15:15 - 15:30
15:30 Poster Session
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Ultraviolet imaging using organic and inorganic phosphors with CCD detectors - S. J. Moody (AST, Harlow)

15:30 Performance of Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes for the LHCb RICH detectors - A. Pickford (Glasgow University)

15:30 Electrical Characteristics of Hybrid Detector based Gd2)2S:Tb-Selenium for Digital Radiation Imaging - S-S Kang (Inje University, Korea)

15:30 Noiseless Detection of Electrons in Medipix2 for Electron Microscopy - A. R. Faruqi (MRC Lab. Of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

15:30 A new X-/Gamma-ray telescope concept for high spectroscopy - W. Dusi (Bologna, Italy)

15:30 Feasibility Studey of a XML-Based Software Environment to Manage Data Acquisition Hardware Devices - I. Magrans (CERN)

15:30 Characterisation of the carrier recombination and trapping processes in proton irradiated silicon by microwave absorption transients. - E. Gaubas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

15:30 Development of CZT/CdTe focal plane prototypes for hard X-ray optics. - J. B. Stephen (IASF/CNR – Sezione di Bologna)

15:30 Beam test of a Si dosimeter prototype for characterisation of medical radiotherapy systems - I. Redondo-Fernandez (University of Sheffield)

15:30 Fabrication and characterization of n-on-n silicon pixel detectors compatible with the Medipix2 readout chip - N .Zorzi (ITC-inst Divisione Microsistemi, Trento)

15:30 Study of Silicon and Gallium Arsenide 3-D detectors designed for the Medipix1 chip - V. Wright (Glasgow University)

15:30 Characterisation of as-grown and heavy irradiated GaN epitaxial structures by photoconductivity and photoluminescence - E. Gaubas (Vilnius University)

15:30 Image quality of Medipix2 assemblies with silicon detectors of two different thicknesses - F. Quarati (Glasgow University)

15:30 Rare earth oxysulphide screens and their usage in X-ray and electron beam imaging - J. P. Creasey (AST, Harlow)

15:30 The Energy Weighting Technique: Simulations and Measurements - D. Niederlohner (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

15:30 Simulation of the detective quantum Efficiency for a hybrid pixel detector - L. del R. Norrlid (Uppsala University)
18:00 Conference Banquet
18:00 - 23:20
Contributions

18:00 Bus departs from University Avenue

18:30 Drinks reception at the Burrell Collection

19:00 View the historic collection of Sir William Burrell

20:00 Dinner

23:00 Bus departs from the Burrell Collection
Thursday, 29 July 2004
09:00 Spectroscopy and Energy Resolving Detectors
09:00 - 11:30
Contributions

09:30 Invited talk - Prospects for Energy Resolving X-ray Imaging with Compound Semiconductor Pixel Detectors. - Prof. Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Milano, Italy)

10:00 Energy deposition and charge transport in pixellated semiconductor X-ray detectors - C. Frojdh (Mid-Sweden University)

10:15 Using the Medipix2 Detector for Energy Weighting - J. Karg (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

10:30 Fabrication and Characterization of Thin DE-Detector for Spectroscopic Application - G.Thungstrom (Mid-Sweden University)
10:30 Morning Coffee

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Summary and Close
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Summary of workshop - K. Smith

11:30 The Future of Radiation Detectors - Panel Discussion

12:00 Closing remarks - S. Petersson
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 13:30