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Event by Event Energy Sensitive Imaging with
TimePix Pixel Detector and its Application for
Gamma Photon Tracking
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2009
Scientific journal
2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Pages: 2726-2733, doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4775081
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Abstract
The semiconductor pixel detector TimePix is a
newly developed successor of the Medipix2 device. Each TimePix
pixel is provided with a preamplifier, a discriminator and a
counter. Each counter can be configured to work in one of three
principal operation modes: 1. counting of detected particles; 2.
measurement of particle energy; 3. measurement of time of
interaction. All these features can be advantageously exploited in
the field of medical and material sensitive imaging using various
radiographic techniques. Regardless of the high performance of
the TimePix device, its quality suffers from the charge sharing
effect which derogates the detector’s energy sensitivity and
decreases its spatial resolution. Nevertheless, it has been already
demonstrated that the influence of this effect can be not only
effectively suppressed but even utilized to gain more complex
information from the measurement. The technique consists in the
independent processing of each event of particle detection
separately (event-by-event mode). The TimePix device can be
operated in triggered mode and, moreover, it can also generate
the trigger (using so called back-side pulse). All these features
allow the construction of an enhanced multilayered Compton
Gamma Camera with very high detection efficiency of about
10% which is several orders of magnitude higher than the
efficiency of collimator (pin hole) based systems. Such camera
has great applicability in the fields of nuclear medicine (SPECT)
and homeland security.
This article presents in its introduction a summary of
experimental results verifying the potential of the TimePix device
operated in event-by-event mode applied in several imaging
techniques (material sensitive X-ray transmission radiography,
X-ray fluorescence imaging). In the second part, a proposal of a
new multilayered Compton Gamma Camera (Tracker) will be
showed together with its Monte-Carlo simulations as well as
results of preliminary experiments verifying its functionality.
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Cite article as:
J. Jakůbek, A. Cejnarová, M. Platkevič, J. Šolc, Z. Vykydal, "Event by Event Energy Sensitive Imaging with
TimePix Pixel Detector and its Application for
Gamma Photon Tracking", 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Pages: 2726-2733, doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4775081 (2009)