Thomas Meyer
(CERN)
22/05/2012, 15:30
S2 - Applications
Oral
At first stage, the paper will briefly outline the functionality of this instrument, which aims at the development of new and higher performance imaging techniques with Time of Flight-PET capability in endoscopy and surgical oncology. The main fraction of the paper, however, will focus on the associated scientific and technological challenges to be met in fields such as scintillating...
Chiara Casella
(ETH Zurich)
22/05/2012, 15:55
S2 - Applications
Oral
The AX-PET (AXial Positron Emission Tomography) experiment proposes a novel geometrical approach for a PET scanner, in which long LYSO scintillator crystals are placed axially in the tomograph. Arrays of WLS strips, placed behind each layer of crystals, provide the measurement of the axial coordinate. Both the crystals and the WLS strips are individually read out by G-APDs (Geiger-mode...
David Nygren
(LBNL)
22/05/2012, 16:20
S2 - Applications
Oral
Future experimental sensitivity goals for both WIMP dark matter and $0\nu \, \beta \beta$ decay searches converge on ton-scale active masses, and even much more. Background requirements for both searches have many similarities. Xenon is a prominent candidate for new experimental efforts in both topics at this scale. The question naturally arises whether both searches can be made in a single...
Dr
Andrew Weisenberger
(Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
22/05/2012, 16:45
Gabriela Llosa
(IFIC/CSIC-UVEG Valencia)
22/05/2012, 17:40
S2 - Applications
Oral
A Compton telescope prototype for dose monitoring in hadrontherapy is under development at IFIC Valencia within the European project ENVISION.
The detector characterization has been completed and the first imaging tests have been carried out with two detectors operated in time coincidence. The first detector consists of a 16x18x5mm LaBr3 continuous crystal coupled to a SiPM array from...
Raffaello D'Alessandro
(INFN - Firenze)
22/05/2012, 18:05
S2 - Applications
Oral
The purpose of the MU-RAY project is to develop an innovative approach to the study of volcanoes and their monitoring based on a particle physics approach. The test site is Vesuvio: one of the higher risk volcanoes in the world. In this context, muon radiography is an innovative method of enormous impact. This is an imaging technique which relies on the measurement, by means of a cosmic ray...
Antonio Caciolli
(INFN - Padova)
22/05/2012, 18:30
S2 - Applications
Oral
Monitoring the environmental radioactivity has been found to be a fundamental tool in order to keep under control the effect of anthropic modifications of topsoil. It is also a good probe to understand the geological structure of ground surface, faster and extremely cheaper with respect other type of measurements. A light and compact detector for airborne ground radioactivity survey (AGRS) has...
