Small Cameras and Detector Probes

Nuclear Science Symposium
and
Medical Imaging Conference

Lyon, France
October
15-20, 2000

Program of Oral and Poster Sessions

3.9 - MIC Instrumentation Systems and Medical Imaging - Small Cameras and Detector Probes

Oral Session Animal PET and Beta Probes
Oral Session Small FOV Single-photon Imagers
Poster Session Animal PET and Beta Probes
Poster Session Small FOV Single-photon Imagers

Oral Session Animal PET and Beta Probes

Friday 20 October 9:00 - 10:30 Chairperson(s) : John Aarsold and Craig S. Levin 15' per presentation
569	Coincidence Measurements on Detectors for microPET II: A 1 mm3 Resolution PET Scanner for Small Animal Imaging	A. Chatziioannou, Y. Tai, Y. Shao, N. Doshi, B. Silverman, K. Meadors, S.R. Cherry
356	Quad-HIDAC, a Next-Generation PET Camera for Small-Animal Imaging	A Jeavons et al. Oxford Positron Systems, Oxford OX6 8SY, UK P Bloomfield et al. Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
22	Study of a PET Detector Module with LSO scintillation crystals and an APD array	A. Fremout, R. Chen, P. Bruyndonckx, S. Tavernier Vrije Universiteit Brussel
315	SIC, an Intracerebral Radiosensitive Microprobe for in vivo Neuropharmacology Investigations in Small Laboratory Animals: First Prototype Design, Characterisation and in vivo Evaluation	F. Pain, P. Laniece, R. Mastrippolito, Y. Charon, D. Comar (1), A. Glatigny, M.T. Guillemin, P. Hantraye (2), V. Leviel (1), L. Menard, L. Pinot, J.F. Pujol (1), L. Valentin. Institut de Physique Nucleaire, Universite Paris 11, Orsay, France.
652	Design and Performance of a Portable Positron-Sensitive Surgical Probe	Fang Liu, Student Member IEEE, Janet R. Saffer, Member IEEE, Nigel S. Lockyer, Member IEEE, F. Mitch Newcomer, Member IEEE, Joel S. Karp, Senior Member IEEE
771	A Compact Beta Imaging System with Optical Fiber Coupled Micro-Columnar Scintillators	MP Tornai, AG Weisenberger, V Popov, CE Kepppel, S Majewski, SV Tipnis, VV Nagarkar; Duke / TJNAF / RMD

Oral Session Small FOV Single-photon Imagers

Friday 20 October 13:30 - 15:00 Chairperson(s) : John Aarsvold and Marijana Ivanovic 15' per presentation
359	An original approach for small animal emission tomography : TOHR; Characterization and first evaluation	L. Ploux(1), R. Mastrippolito, A. Glatigny, P. Lanièce, F. Lefebvre, F. Pain, L.Pinot, Y. Charon, L. Ménard, P. Hantraye(1), C. Loc'h(1), L. Valentin. Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Université de Paris 11, 91406 Orsay Cedex, France. Groupe Modélisation
550	Hand-Held Gamma-Ray Imaging Device for Localization of Sentinel Lymph Nodes	L. R. MacDonald, Y. Yamaguchi, E. A. Tikhomirov, A.M. Pirogov, B. E. Patt, J. S. Iwanczyk, D. McElroy, E. J. Hoffman, N. P. Alazraki, J. N. Aarsvold, R. A. Mintzer
656	Optimized Readout of a Small Gamma Camera for Dual Modality Spot Breast Imaging	R. Wojcik, S. Majewski, B. Kross, V. Popov, A.G. Weisenberger Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Newport News, Virginia, USA
421	Tomographic Small-Animal Imaging Using a High-Resolution Semiconductor Camera	GA Kastis, MC Wu, SJ Balzer, DW Wilson, L Furenlid, G Stevenson, HH Barrett, HB Barber, JM Woolfenden, P Kelly, M Appleby.
705	Feasibility Study for SPECT Mammography Based on Compact Imagers Rotating around Breast Vertical Axis	R.Pani, A. Soluri,R. Scafè, R. Pellegrini, G. De Vincentis, F. Scopinaro, M. N. Cinti,L..Indovina,G.Trotta, M. Gambaccini, A. Fantini, A. Taibi, A. Olivo, S. Pani, L. Rigon, D.Bollini, N. Lanconelli, E. Cisbani, A. Del Guerra.
531	Advantage of Using Compact Gamma Cameras for Sentinel Node Radio-guided Surgery : Monte Carlo Simulation and First Clinical Evaluation of an Intra-Operative Imager	S. Pitre, Y. Charon, L. Ménard, M. Ricard*, M. Solal, P. Lanièce*, R. Mastrippolito and L. Valentin*. Inst. de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, Groupe Modélisation Physique Interfaces Biologie, Université Paris 7, *Inst. G. Roussy, &U66 -INSER

Poster Session Animal PET and Beta Probes

Friday 20 October 15:00 - 16:30 Chairperson(s) : Roland Mastrippolito
282	Development of a position-sensitive detector for Small Animal PET	A.Fedorov, M.Korzhik, P.Lecoq, O.Missevitch, A.Tkatchev Crystal Clear Collaboration, CERN
466	Design Considerations for A Small-Animal PET Device with Resolution Approaching 1mm.	J.A. Correia, C.A. Burnham, D. Kaufman, and A.J. Fischman
479	Implementation of Monte Carlo Coincident Aperture Functions in Image Generation of a High Resolution Animal Positron Tomograph	G. Boening(1), B.J. Pichler(2), M. Rafecas(2), E. Lorenz(1), M. Schwaiger(2) and S. Ziegler(2) 1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen 2) Nuklearmedizinische Klinik des Klinikums rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen
571	Preliminary Evaluation of the microPET P4: A PET System Dedicated to Small Animal Imaging	Y.C. Tai, A. Chatziioannou, S. Siegel, J. Young, D. Newport, R.N. Goble, S.R. Cherry, R.E. Nutt
712	System Design for a 1 mm3 Resolution Animal PET Scanner: microPET II	Yuan-Chuan Tai, Arion F. Chatziioannou, Magnus Dahlbom, Simon R.Cherry
739	Development of a Small Animal PET Prototype	G. Tzanakos et al, Univ Athens, National Tech Univ Athens, Univ of Patras, Greece
777	Experimental Estimates of the Absolute Sensitivity of a Small Animal PET Scanner with Depth-of-Interaction Capability	J. Seidel, J. J. Vaquero, I. J. Lee, and M. V. Green
806	Evaluation and Early Imaging Results from a Small Animal PET Scanner: "ANIPET"	K Nguyen, C J Thompson, S Kecani, L Nikinnen, A Ben el Fassi, A Reader, N Zhang and M Diksic
776	The Characterisation of a Larger Area Position-sensitive Scintillation counter based on an M-HPD detector	M Dallimore, D J Herbert, L-J Meng, D Ramsden
727	A Direct Sinogram-Restoration Method for Fast Image Reconstruction in Compact DOI-PET Systems	Chien-Min Kao and Chin-Tu Chen
30	Intracerebral Beta Microprobe for Radiotracer Kinetics in Freely Moving Animals	C.L.Woody, S.P.Stoll, D.J.Schlyer

Poster Session Small FOV Single-photon Imagers

Friday 20 October 15:00 - 16:30 Chairperson(s) : Robert A. Mintzer
2002	Advanced Gamma-Probesfor Radioguided Oncological Surgery	W. Dusi, P. Angelotti, D. Bollini, C. Moroni, M. Ricard
139	High Resolution SPECT with a CdZnTe Detector Array and a Scintillation Camera	MC Wu, GA Kastis, SJ Balzer, DW Wilson, HB Barber, HH Barrett, MW Dae, BH Hasegawa
553	Development of new high resolution detectors for small animal SPECT imaging	L.R. MacDonald, J.S. Iwanczyk, B.E. Patt, C.R. Tull, P. D. Acton, H. F. Kung, B.M.W. Tsui
505	An Investigation of Coded Aperture Imaging for Small Animal SPECT	S.R. Meikle, R.R. Fulton, S. Eberl, M. Dahlbom, K.P. Wong and M.J. Fulham
457	Use of Conventional Gamma Cameras for Small Animal Imaging	DJ Wagenaar, JC Engdahl, V Simcic, and EG Hawman, Siemens Med Sys, Hoffman Estates, IL; T Mertelmeier, Siemens Med. Siemens Med Eng, Erlangen, Germany; and U Mahmood, Mass Gen Hosp and Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA
274	The Optimal Crystal Geometry for Small-Field-of-View Gamma Cameras: Arrays or Disks?	A. Wirrwar, N. Schramm, H. Halling, H.-W. Müller-Gärtner
240	Performance Evaluation of the Plate and Array Types of NaI(Tl), CsI(Tl) and CsI(Na) for Small Gamma Camera Using PSPMT	J-H. Kim, Y. Choi, K.C. Im, S.K. Woo, H.K. Seo, Y.S. Choe, K-H. Lee, S.E. Kim, K-S. Joo, B-T. Kim
475	The Role of Breast Compression in Scintimammography	R.Pani, R.Pellegrini, A.Soluri, I.N.Weinberg, G. De Vincentis, R. Scafè, M.N.Cinti, L. Indovina,F. Scopinaro, V. David, F. Garibaldi, A. Del Guerra and I. Khalkhali
345	Implementing Reconstruction with Hand-held Gamma Cameras	INWeinberg, V Zawarzin, R Pani, G DeVincentes, W Worstell PEM Technologies, Bethesda MD, University La Sapienza, Italy
696	Imaging Evaluation of CsI(Tl) Arrays for Scintimammography	R.Pani1²,M.N.Cinti, R. Scafè, A. Soluri, R. Pellegrini, L.Indovina, G. De Vincentis,G.Trotta, N.Burgio, C.Ciavola, F.Garibaldi, G.M.Urciuoli, G. Zavattini, G. Di Domenico, D.Bollini, N. Lanconelli , A. Olivo, S. Pani, L. Rigon A. Del Guerra
589	Evaluation of Performance of Dedicated, Compact Scintillation Cameras	D. McElroy, E. Hoffman, L. MacDonald, B. Patt, J. Iwanczyk* UCLA School of Medicine, *Photon Imaging Inc.
396	Imaging Performances of the Large Area Intra-operative Camera POCI	S. Pitre, Y. Charon, L. Ménard, M. Solal, M. Ricard**, A. Glatigny, P. Lanièce, R. Mastrippolito and L.Valentin*. Inst. de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay, Université Paris 7, * Inst. G. Roussy
431	Autoradiography of high energy radionuclides using a microchannel plate detector	J. E. Lees, A. Murray, A.C. Perkins and G.W. Fraser