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Very high position resolution gamma imaging with resistive plate chambers
Blanco, A.; Carolino, N.; Correia, C. M. B. A.; Fazendeiro, L.; Ferreira, Nuno C.; Marques, M. F. Ferreira; Marques, R. Ferreira; Fonte, P.; Gil, C.In this study we present experimental results from a first prototype of a positron emission tomography system based on the resistive plate chamber (RPC) technology. The system is composed of two counting heads, each one containing 16 single-gap RPC detectors capable of detecting the photon interaction point in the transaxial plane. Uniformity studies were performed for image resolution and sensitivity, yielding...
Spatial resolution on a small animal RPC-PET prototype operating under magnetic...
Blanco, A.; Carolino, N.; Correia, C. M. B. A.; Fazendeiro, L.; Ferreira, Nuno C.; Marques, M. F. Ferreira; Marques, R. Ferreira; Fonte, P.; Gil, C.It has been demonstrated in previous work that the RPC-PET technology is able to deliver radioisotope image resolutions approaching the physical limits of the PET principle. Here we study, by simulation, the effect of the magnetic field on the positron range to evaluate whether the spatial resolution of the RPC-PET could be improved by using an intense magnetic field. Six positron emitters of interest to small ...
Progress in timing Resistive Plate Chambers
Blanco, A.; Carolino, N.; Correia, C. M. B. A.; Ferreira-Marques, R.; Fonte, P.; Gobbi, A.; González-Díaz, D.; Lopes, M. I.; Lopes, L.; Macedo, M. P.Timing RPCs are Resistive Plate Chambers made with glass and metal electrodes separated by precision spacers. Typical gas gaps are a few hundred micrometers wide. Such counters were introduced in 1999 and have since reached timing accuracies below 50 ps [sigma] with efficiencies above 99% for MIPs. Applications in high-energy physics have already taken place with several more under study. ; http://www.scienc...
An RPC-PET prototype with high spatial resolution
Blanco, A.; Carolino, N.; Correia, C. M. B. A.; Marques, R. Ferreira; Fonte, P.; González-Díaz, D.; Lindote, A.; Lopes, M. I.; Macedo, M. P.A small positron emission tomography system, based on the timing RPC technology has been built and tested. This first prototype is aimed at validating the expectations, derived from simulations, of a very high spatial resolution, which could be of value for the imaging of small animals. The system is composed of two counting heads, able to measure the photon interaction point in two dimensions, the transaxial d...
A 1 GSPS VME data acquisition module
Loureiro, C. F. M.; Combo, A. M. C. F.; Correia, C. M. B. A.; Varela, P.; Manso, M. E.; Varandas, C.; Serra, F.In the following a new data acquisition architecture is proposed allowing high sampling rates along with a large memory data buffer. The modular design allows up to four 250 MHz, 8-bit acquisition channels to operate in an interleaved way, achieving 1 GSPS. Each channel can acquire continuously up to 3 MBytes of data (or 12 MBytes when interleaved). Since several modules can coexist in an acquisition system, pr...
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