Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. A LOOK AT MEDICAL IMAGING TRENDS THROUGH THE EYES OF A MEDICAL DOCTOR

   • Sergiy S Makeyev

   Pages 1-13

3. NEW TRENDS IN X-RAY CT IMAGING

   • Ruvin Deych, Enrico Dolazza

   Pages 15-35

4. THE EVOLUTION OF SPECT – FROM ANGER TO TODAY AND BEYOND

   • William W. Moses, Vadim Gayshan, Alexandr Gektin

   Pages 37-80

5. NEW TRENDS IN PET DETECTOR DEVELOPMENTS

   • Paul Lecoq

   Pages 81-110

6. SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS IN RADIATION MEDICINE: RADIOTHERAPY AND RELATED APPLICATIONS

   • Anatoly B. Rosenfeld

   Pages 111-147

7. FIRST RESULTS WITH THE CLEARPET SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS

   • E. Auffray, M. Boutemeur, G. Brandenburg, P. Bruyndonckx, Y. Choi, Y. D’Asseler et al.

   Pages 149-164

8. INVESTIGATION OF CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION METHODS FOR ClearPETTMPHOSWICH DETECTOR

   • Dariusz Wisniewski, Monika Wisniewska, Peter Bruyndonckx, Magalie Krieguer, Stefaan Tavernier, Olivier Devroede et al.

   Pages 165-189

9. DIRECTIONS IN SCINTILLATION MATERIALS RESEARCH

   • Pieter Dorenbos

   Pages 191-207

10. SCINTILLATION DETECTORS FOR MEDICAL AND BIOLOGY APPLICATIONS: MATERIALS, DESIGN AND LIGHT COLLECTION CONDITIONS

    • Margaryta Globus, Borys Grinyov

    Pages 209-242

11. CURRENT AND FUTURE USE OF LSO: CE SCINTILLATORS IN PET

    • C. L. Melcher, L. A. Eriksson, M. Aykac, F. Bauer, C. Williams, M. Loope et al.

    Pages 243-257

12. INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS IN POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY

    • Carel W.E. Van Eijk

    Pages 259-274

13. CRYSTAL FIBERS AND THIN FILMS FOR IMAGING APPLICATIONS

    • C. Pedrini, C. Dujardin

    Pages 275-291

14. NON-PROPORTIONALITY AND ENERGY RESOLUTION OF SCINTILLATION DETECTORS

    • Marek Moszyński

    Pages 293-315

The "NATO Advanced Research Workshop on radiation detectors for medical imaging", held in Alushta (Crimea, Ukraine) in September 2005 was a unique event and I am very pleased that the proceedings are published in the prestigious NATO Security Through Science series. Since their discovery by Becquerel and Röntgen, radiation and radiation detectors have played an ever more important role in medical diagnostics and therapy. The spirit of such NATO workshops is to give an overview of the present state of the field, rather than to bring the latest research results. We have been very lucky to have with us several of the worlds leading experts in the use of radiation detectors for medial imaging, resulting in a number of extremely interesting overview talks. The talks of these 14 keynote speakers to the NATO workshop are published in the present volume. The presentations by A. Gektin and W. Moses were combined in one common paper, so that the present book only has 13 chapters. We are sure most of these contributions will prove of lasting value. We are particularly grateful to the "NATO science committee" that has financially supported the meeting. Thanks to the NATO funding we have been able to cover a significant fraction of the expenses for a total of 48 participants to this workshop. Without this support a number of participants from central and east Europe would most probably not have had the possibility to attend.

• Biophysics
• Experiment
• NATO
• Physics
• Science
• Security
• Sub-Series B
• computed tomography (CT)
• positron emission tomography
• semiconductor
• thin films

From the reviews:

"The book provides an overview of radiation detectors for medical applications in general, with particular emphasis on scintillation detectors. ... All chapters include figures, tables, and illustrations that have been reproduced with good quality. ... Overall, I found the book to be a valuable resource on scintillation radiation detectors and their medical applications. This book should be part of any medical physics, health physics, radiology, or radiation oncology library. It will also be a good reference for scientists and engineers ... ." (Osama Mawlawi, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 49 (7), July, 2008)

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

  Stefaan Tavernier

• Institute for Scintillation Materials, Kharkov, Ukraine

  Alexander Gektin, Boris Grinyov

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A

  William W. Moses

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