Gamma ray Compton TOF detector - Banco de Patentes

CSIC and other participants have designed a device to allow determination of the complete timing and photoelectric interactions produced by a single incident gamma ray, so the contribution of scattered events inside the photoelectric peak coming from scatter at the crystal or the human body can be estimated and accurately corrected. Gamma ray imaging is a key technology for the design of medical devices based on Nuclear imaging systems like Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) or Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for the purpose of medical diagnosis or therapy, but also for astrophysical devices such as gamma ray telescopes or even nuclear power plant monitoring. The new detector allows to obtain images with a greater resolution and sensitivity, with the improvements that implies in the different fields of application.