Çonka Nurdan, Tuba: High resolution measurements with silicon drift detectors for Compton camera applications. 2004
Inhalt
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Literature Review of Compton Camera Systems
- 1.2 Objectives of this Work
- 1.3 Overview of Dissertation
- 2. Theoretical Considerations for the Compton Camera System Design
- 3. Impact of the Detector Parameters on the Compton Camera Performance
- 3.1 Doppler Broadening
- 3.2 Energy Resolution of the Electron Detector
- 3.3 Geometric Factors in Angular Uncertainty
- 3.4 Overall Angular Uncertainty
- 4. Description and Characterization of the Compton Camera System
- 4.1 Choice of the Radioisotope for Compton Camera Imaging
- 4.2 Scatter Detector: Silicon Drift Detector
- 4.3 Absorption Detector: Anger Camera
- 4.4 The Compton Camera Setup
- 5. Front-End Electronics and Data Acquisition System
- 5.1 Front-End Electronics of the Silicon Drift Detector
- 5.2 Data Acquisition System
- 5.3 Spectroscopic Measurements with a Single Cell SDD
- 6. Measurements and Results
- 6.1 Spectroscopic Performance of the Scatter Detector
- 6.2 Measurements with the Absorption Detector
- 6.3 First Coincidence Signals
- 6.4 Coincidences with a Finely Collimated Beam
- 6.5 High-Statistics Coincidence Measurements
- 7. Conclusions and Future Work
- A. Appendices for Chapter 2
- B. Appendices for Chapter 3
- C. Appendices for Chapter 4
- D. Appendices for Chapter 5
- Bibliography