Evaluation of a EMCCD detector for emission-transmission computed tomography

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3050-3054

  Teo, B K ^a   Shestakova, I ^b   Sun, M ^a   Barber, W C ^a   Hasegawa, B H ^a   Nagarkar, V V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CHARGED COUPLED DEVICE (EMCCD); EMISSION TRANSMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAMMA CAMERAS; PHOTON COUNTING MODES;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33846631975     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596973     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. M. S. Robbins and B. J. Hadwen, "The noise performance of electron multiplying charge-coupled devices," IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1227-1232, May 2003.
2. V. V. Nagarkar, B. Singh, I. K. Shestakova and V. Gaysinskiy, "Design and Performance of an EMCCD Based Detector for Combined SPECT/CT Imaging," in 2005 IEEE NSS/MIC Conf. Rec., Paper M07-254.
3. C. G. Coates, D. J. Denvir, N. G. McHale, K. D. Thornbury and M. A. Hollywood, "Optimizing low-light microscopy with back-illuminated electron multiplying charge-coupled device: enhanced sensitivity, speed, and resolution," J. Biomedical Optics, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1244-1252, Nov 2004.
4. A. G. Basden, C. A. Haniff and C. D. Mackay, "Photon counting strategies with low-light level CCDs," Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., vol. 345, no. 3, pp. 985-991, Nov 2003.
5. T. F. Lang, B. H. Hasegawa, S. C. Liew, J. K. Brown, S. C. Blankespoor, S. M. Reilly, E. L. Gingold and C. E. Cann, "Description of a prototype emission-transmission computed-tomography imaging system,"J. Nucl. Med., vol.,33, no. 10, pp, 1881-1887, Oct 1992.
6. V. V. Nagarkar, T. K. Gupta, S. R. Miller, Y. Klugerman, M. R. Squillante, and G. Entine, "Structured CsI(Tl) scintillators for x-ray imaging applications," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 45, pp. 492-496, Jun 1998.
7. F. J. Beekman and G. A. de Vree "Photon counting versus an integrating CCD-based gamma camera: important consequences for spatial resolution," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 50, no. 12, pp. N1109-N119, Jun 2005.
8. G. A. de Vree, A. H. Westra, I. Moody, F. van der Have, K. M. Ligtvoet and F. J. Beekman, "Photon-counting gamma camera based on an electron-multiplying CCD," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 580-588, Jun 2005.