International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (IWORID04)

from Sunday 25 July 2004 (10:00) to Thursday 29 July 2004 (13:30)
Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Jul 2004
26 Jul 2004
27 Jul 2004
28 Jul 2004
29 Jul 2004
AM
10:00
Outing to Scottish Highlands (until 18:00)
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  
09:00
Opening Session (until 10:30)
09:15 Welcoming Address - Prof. David Saxon (Dean of Faculty of Physical Sciences)  
09:30
Industrial Exhibition (until 17:30)
09:30
Lunch / Industrial Exhibition (until 10:30)
09:30 Agilent Technologies  
09:30 Applied Scintillation Technologies  
09:30 Gesec R&D  
09:30 Keithley Instruments  
09:30 Metprep  
09:30 OneCall (Farnell)  
09:30
Solid State Radiation Detectors (until 10:30)
09:30 Invited talk - Semiconductor track detectors: a brief history from 0D to 3D - Prof. Sherwood Parker (University of Hawaii)  
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10:00 Invited talk - Diamond (Radiation Detectors) are for ever! - Prof. Harris Kagan (Ohio State University)  
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10:30
Morning Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
X-ray Detectors (until 12:30)
11:00 Invited talk - Pixel detector arrays for X-ray Astronomy - Prof. George Fraser (Leicester University)  
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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)  
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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)  
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12:00 Influence of Backscattering on the Spatial Resolution of Semiconductor X-ray Detectors - M. Hoheisel (Siemens AG, Nurnberg)  
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12:15 Material Reconstruction with Spectroscopic Pixel X-ray Detectors - J.Giersch (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)  
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09:00
Medical Imaging (until 10:30)
09:00 Invited talk - MRI vs. X-ray imaging - Prof. Alex Elliott (Glasgow University)  
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09:45 Performances of different digital mammography imaging systems: evaluation and comparison - M. G. Bisogni (Universita di Pisa and INFN)  
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10:00 Energy Dependence in Dental Imaging with Medipix - B. Norlin (Mid-Sweden University)  
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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)  
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10:30
Morning Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
PET and Compton Imaging (until 12:30)
11:00 Invited talk - Phosphors and scintillators in radiation imaging detectors - Dr. Glenn Tyrrell (AST, Harlow)  
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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)  
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11:45 High Spatial Resolution of Depth-of-Interaction in PET-LSO - A. Simon (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)  
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12:00 Design of Scintillator Arrays for Dual-End Depth-of-Interaction Encoding Small-Animal PET Detectors - K. C. Burr (GE Research, Niskayuna, NY)  
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12:15 Development of an advanced Compton camera with gaseous TPC and scintillator - A. Takada (Kyoto University)  
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09:00
Novel Applications I (until 10:30)
09:00 Invited talk - Pixel detectors for retinal imaging - Prof. Alan Litke (SCIPP,UC Santa Cruz, USA)  
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09:30 30 um Spacing 519-Electrode Arrays for In-Vitro Retinal Studies - D. Gunning (Glasgow University)  
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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)  
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10:00 Spatial Resolution of the Medipix-2 as Neutron Pixel Detector - J. Jakubek (IEAP, Czech Technical University)  
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10:30
Morning Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
Novel Applications II (until 11:45)
11:00 CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for Ionising Radiation - A. Evans (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)  
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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.)  
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11:30 Development of Flexible Arrays for in-vivo neuronal Recording and Stimulation - C. Adams (Glasgow University)  
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11:45
Radiation Hard Detectors I (until 12:30)
11:45 Studies of bulk damage induced in different silicon materials by 900 MeV electron irradiation - S. Dittongo (INFN Sezione di Trieste, Italy)  
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12:00 Radiation hardness of graded-gap AlxGa1-xAs X-ray detectors - A. Silenas (Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius)  
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12:15 The LHCb Vertex Locator - L. Eklund (CERN)  
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09:00
Spectroscopy and Energy Resolving Detectors (until 11:30)
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)  
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10:00 Energy deposition and charge transport in pixellated semiconductor X-ray detectors - C. Frojdh (Mid-Sweden University)  
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10:15 Using the Medipix2 Detector for Energy Weighting - J. Karg (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)  
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10:30 Fabrication and Characterization of Thin DE-Detector for Spectroscopic Application - G.Thungstrom (Mid-Sweden University)  
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10:30
Morning Coffee (until 11:00)
11:00
Summary and Close (until 12:30)
11:00 Summary of workshop - K. Smith  
11:30 The Future of Radiation Detectors - Panel Discussion  
12:00 Closing remarks - S. Petersson  
PM
18:00
Welcome Drinks & Registration (until 20:00)
13:30
Compound Materials (until 15:00)
13:30 Resolution degradation of semiconductor detectors due to incomplete charge collection - A. G. Kozorezov (Lancaster University)  
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13:45 PbI2 as a direct semiconductor for use in radiation imaging detectors - G. C. Tyrrell (AST, Harlow)  
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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)  
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14:30 Characterisation of TlBr Crystals for Detector Applications - V. Kozlov (University of Helsinki)  
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14:45 Experimental Simulation of a Spectroscopic Pixel X-Ray Detector - C. Reinhart (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)  
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15:00
Afternoon Tea (until 15:30)
15:30
Synchrotron Applications (until 17:00)
15:30 Invited talk - 4th generation light sources and demands on detectors - Prof. Edwin Westbrook  
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16:00 GaN UV detectors for synchrotron-based protein structure studies - A. Blue (Glasgow University)  
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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)  
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16:45 State of the art on epitaxial GaAs detectors - G.C. Sun (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI))  
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18:00
Whisky Tasting / Buffet Dinner (until 19:00)
20:00
Ceilidh (traditional Scottish evening) (until 23:55)
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Particle Physics Applications (until 15:00)
13:30 The NA60 Silicon Vertex Spectrometer - K. Banicz (University of Heidelberg)  
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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)  
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14:15 A Silicon Vertex Tracker Upgrade for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC - J. M. Heuser (RIKEN)  
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14:30 The ATLAS Pixel Detector: a hundred million channels vertex detector for LHC - G. Gagliardi (University of Genoa and INFN)  
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14:45 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors of LHCb - L. Somerville (University of Oxford)  
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15:00
Afternoon Tea (until 15:30)
15:30
Gaseous Detectors (until 17:00)
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)  
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16:15 HPD set-up tests of backside illuminated monolithic CMOS pixel sensor - W. Dulinski (LEPSI, Strasbourg)  
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16:30 Invited talk - Readout of the LHCb pixel hybrid photon detector - Dr. Ken Wyllie (CERN)  
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17:00
Conference Reception (until 18:30)
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30)
13:30
Radiation Hard Detectors II (until 15:15)
13:30 Invited talk - Recent Developments on Radiation Hard Semiconductor Detectors for SuperLHC - Dr. Michael Moll (CERN)  
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14:00 Analysis and Simulation of Charge Collection Efficiency in Si Thin Detectors - M. Petasecca (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna)  
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14:15 Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Detectors for Harsh Radiation Environments - W. Cunningham on behalf of J. Grant (Glasgow University)  
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14:30 Evolution of Detrapping Currents for a-Si FETs Exposed to Radiation - S. Zelakiewicz (General Electric – Global Research, Niskayuna, NY)  
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14:45 Measurements and Simulations of Charge Collection Efficiency of p+/n Junction SiC Detectors - F. Moscatelli (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna)  
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15:00 3D Silicon and radiation hardness - C. Da Via (Brunel university)  
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15:15
Afternoon Tea (until 15:30)
15:30
Poster Session (until 17:00)
15:30 A new X-/Gamma-ray telescope concept for high spectroscopy - W. Dusi (Bologna, Italy)  
15:30 Beam test of a Si dosimeter prototype for characterisation of medical radiotherapy systems - I. Redondo-Fernandez (University of Sheffield)  
15:30 Characterisation of as-grown and heavy irradiated GaN epitaxial structures by photoconductivity and photoluminescence - E. Gaubas (Vilnius University)  
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 Electrical Characteristics of Hybrid Detector based Gd2)2S:Tb-Selenium for Digital Radiation Imaging - S-S Kang (Inje University, Korea)  
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 Feasibility Studey of a XML-Based Software Environment to Manage Data Acquisition Hardware Devices - I. Magrans (CERN)  
15:30 Image quality of Medipix2 assemblies with silicon detectors of two different thicknesses - F. Quarati (Glasgow University)  
15:30 Noiseless Detection of Electrons in Medipix2 for Electron Microscopy - A. R. Faruqi (MRC Lab. Of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)  
15:30 Performance of Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes for the LHCb RICH detectors - A. Pickford (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 Simulation of the detective quantum Efficiency for a hybrid pixel detector - L. del R. Norrlid (Uppsala University)  
15:30 Study of Silicon and Gallium Arsenide 3-D detectors designed for the Medipix1 chip - V. Wright (Glasgow University)  
15:30 The Energy Weighting Technique: Simulations and Measurements - D. Niederlohner (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)  
15:30 Ultraviolet imaging using organic and inorganic phosphors with CCD detectors - S. J. Moody (AST, Harlow)  
18:00
Conference Banquet (until 23:20)
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  
12:30
Lunch (until 13:30)