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EnglishIn this paper we report the development of a prototype for a new kind of detector intended for scintimammography imaging. Traditional photon counting information is available; moreover digital words representing the amplitude of each event and suitable image elaboration methods significantly enhance detector capabilities. The prototype detector is composed of a collimator and 4 imaging modules. Each module is composed of an 8times8 sensing array of 2 mmtimes2 mm silicon p-i-n photodiode pixels, coupled to a CsI(Tl) scintillator and custom readout electronics. The sensor is fixed to an Al2O3 printed circuit board. Eight readout mixed analog-digital ICs, wire bonded to single sensor pixels and to the PCB, provide analog signal conditioning, A/D conversion, self-triggered acquisition and bidirectional serial data transfer. Digital signals are routed out so that each module can be attached to a main board with an FPGA for overall detector management. PC-based supervision of the detector is accomplished using a LabVIEW simplified graphical user interface. The purpose of the prototype is to test the approach and the chosen architecture; all its elements have been designed in order to permit the construction of the final detector with a significantly larger sensing area
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| Titolo: | A Modular Prototype Detector for Scintimammography Imaging |
| Data di pubblicazione: | 2005 |
| Nome del convegno: | IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference 2005 |
| ISBN: | 0-7803-9221-3 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596968 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |
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