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Title: Event Localization in Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Coded Apertures

Abstract

The localization of radiation interactions in bulk scintillators is generally limited by the size of the light distribution at the readout surface of the crystal/light-pipe system. By finding the centroid of the light spot, which is typically of order centimeters across, practical single-event localization is limited to ~2 mm/cm of crystal thickness. Similar resolution can also be achieved for the depth of interaction by measuring the size of the light spot. Through the use of near-field coded-aperture techniques applied to the scintillation light, light transport simulations show that for 3-cm-thick crystals, more than a five-fold improvement (millimeter spatial resolution) can be achieved both laterally and in event depth. At the core of the technique is the requirement to resolve the shadow from an optical mask placed in the scintillation light path between the crystal and the readout. In this paper, experimental results are presented that demonstrate the overall concept using a 1D shadow mask, a thin-scintillator crystal and a light pipe of varying thickness to emulate a 2.2-cm-thick crystal. Spatial resolutions of ~ 1 mm in both depth and transverse to the readout face are obtained over most of the crystal depth.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
Contributing Org.:
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
1328269
Report Number(s):
ORNL/TM-2014/51
DN2001000; NNPORES; TRN: US1700336
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; VISIBLE RADIATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; DEPTH; CRYSTALS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SIZE; INTERACTIONS; PHOSPHORS; MASKING; LIGHT PIPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; RADIATION TRANSPORT; COORDINATES

Citation Formats

Ziock, Klaus-Peter, Braverman, Joshua B., Fabris, Lorenzo, Harrison, Mark J., Hornback, Donald Eric, and Newby, Jason. Event Localization in Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Coded Apertures. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1328269.
Ziock, Klaus-Peter, Braverman, Joshua B., Fabris, Lorenzo, Harrison, Mark J., Hornback, Donald Eric, & Newby, Jason. Event Localization in Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Coded Apertures. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1328269
Ziock, Klaus-Peter, Braverman, Joshua B., Fabris, Lorenzo, Harrison, Mark J., Hornback, Donald Eric, and Newby, Jason. 2015. "Event Localization in Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Coded Apertures". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1328269. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1328269.
@article{osti_1328269,
title = {Event Localization in Bulk Scintillator Crystals Using Coded Apertures},
author = {Ziock, Klaus-Peter and Braverman, Joshua B. and Fabris, Lorenzo and Harrison, Mark J. and Hornback, Donald Eric and Newby, Jason},
abstractNote = {The localization of radiation interactions in bulk scintillators is generally limited by the size of the light distribution at the readout surface of the crystal/light-pipe system. By finding the centroid of the light spot, which is typically of order centimeters across, practical single-event localization is limited to ~2 mm/cm of crystal thickness. Similar resolution can also be achieved for the depth of interaction by measuring the size of the light spot. Through the use of near-field coded-aperture techniques applied to the scintillation light, light transport simulations show that for 3-cm-thick crystals, more than a five-fold improvement (millimeter spatial resolution) can be achieved both laterally and in event depth. At the core of the technique is the requirement to resolve the shadow from an optical mask placed in the scintillation light path between the crystal and the readout. In this paper, experimental results are presented that demonstrate the overall concept using a 1D shadow mask, a thin-scintillator crystal and a light pipe of varying thickness to emulate a 2.2-cm-thick crystal. Spatial resolutions of ~ 1 mm in both depth and transverse to the readout face are obtained over most of the crystal depth.},
doi = {10.2172/1328269},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1328269}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}