Preliminary study of the feasibility of a non-crystalline positron emission tomography using a suspension of superheated superconducting grains (SSG) in high-density dielectric matrix (HDDM) as detector

Autor: Gérard Maurel, Jorge Silva, Jacques de Maillard, Roger Bruère Dawson, G. Waysand
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 515:869-880
ISSN: 0168-9002
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.07.022
Popis: Suspensions of superheated superconducting grains (SSG) are a detecting composite material. Each grain in the suspension is a microcalorimeter with an energy threshold defined by its equatorial magnetic field for a given temperature. The higher the matrix density, the larger the gamma stopping power. For several years, cylindrical cells of such suspensions about 2 cm long and 0.4 mm in diameter can be read out in real time. As a result, using two independent cells, one can record a time coincidence between them. This could be potentially very useful for positron cameras where two diametrically opposite cells are simultaneously knocked by 511 keV gammas. This paper, based on the state-of-art in SSG in high-density matrix, discusses such a feasibility.
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