Conveners
Applications in Medicine, Life Sciences and Biology
- Philip Evans (Institute of Cancer Research)
Prof.
Dewi Lewis
(CERN)
15/09/2011, 08:50
Applications in Medicine
Invited Oral
During the last decade there have been numerous advances within industry in developing imaging systems for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging but in general these improvements in clinical systems tend to lag behind the ground breaking research and improvements that are made at academic laboratories. In this paper we will describe the present day industrial environment for imaging...
Prof.
Robert Ott
(Institute of Cancer Research)
15/09/2011, 09:30
Applications in Medicine
Oral Presentation
A large area CMOS active pixel sensor(LAS)has been investigated to study its potential application to Nuclear Medicine imaging. LAS consisted of 1350 x 1350 40 micron pixels with noise levels of ~40e. The sensor was coupled directly to both segmented and unsegmented 2mm thick CsI(Tl) crystals. The segmented crystal contained 400 micron x 400 micron pixels seperated by ~100 microns of...
Michela Esposito
(Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH,U.K.)
15/09/2011, 09:50
Applications in Medicine
Oral Presentation
Wafer scale detector technology represents an alternative approach for biomedical imaging where currently Flat Panel Imagers (FPIs) are the most common option. However, FPIs possess several key drawbacks such as large pixels, high noise, low frame rates, and excessive image artifacts. Recently Active Pixel Sensors have gained popularity overcoming such issues and are now scalable up to wafer...
Carlo Fiorini
(Politecnico di Milano and INFN sezione di milano,Italy)
15/09/2011, 10:10
Applications in Medicine
Oral Presentation
Particle therapy plays nowadays an important role in cancer treatment and growing research efforts are directed in this direction. In particular, strength of proton therapy, is related to the possibility to release the maximum of the dose in the target site destroying tumoral cells and limiting otherwise the dose to normal tissue. For this purpose, the measurement of the proton beam range in...
Dr
Jon Lapington
(University of Leicester)
15/09/2011, 10:30
Applications in Medicine
Oral Presentation
We describe a 256 channel microchannel plate-based multi-anode photomultiplier camera system with integrated electronics designed for picosecond photon timing applications at very high throughput. The system was designed primarily for high content applications in life sciences, such as high throughput fluorescence lifetime microscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, and other...
