New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition

Abstract Imaging using scintillators is a widespread and cost-effective approach in radiography. While different types of scintillator and sensor configurations exist, it can be stated that the detection efficiency and resolution of a scintillator-based system strongly depend on the scintillator mat...

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Autores principales:	A. S. Losko, Y. Han, B. Schillinger, A. Tartaglione, M. Morgano, M. Strobl, J. Long, A. S. Tremsin, M. Schulz
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c40fdf2741df4673ac029e8c05963de02021-11-08T10:53:50ZNew perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition10.1038/s41598-021-00822-52045-2322https://doaj.org/article/c40fdf2741df4673ac029e8c05963de02021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00822-5https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Imaging using scintillators is a widespread and cost-effective approach in radiography. While different types of scintillator and sensor configurations exist, it can be stated that the detection efficiency and resolution of a scintillator-based system strongly depend on the scintillator material and its thickness. Recently developed event-driven detectors are capable of registering spots of light emitted by the scintillator after a particle interaction, allowing to reconstruct the Center-of-Mass of the interaction within the scintillator. This results in a more precise location of the event and therefore provides a pathway to overcome the scintillator thickness limitation and increase the effective spatial resolution of the system. Utilizing this principle, we present a detector capable of Time-of-Flight imaging with an adjustable field-of-view, ad-hoc binning and re-binning of data based on the requirements of the experiment including the possibility of particle discrimination via the analysis of the event shape in space and time. It is considered that this novel concept might replace regular cameras in neutron imaging detectors as it provides superior detection capabilities with the most recent results providing an increase by a factor 3 in image resolution and an increase by up to a factor of 7.5 in signal-to-noise for thermal neutron imaging.A. S. LoskoY. HanB. SchillingerA. TartaglioneM. MorganoM. StroblJ. LongA. S. TremsinM. SchulzNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q A. S. Losko Y. Han B. Schillinger A. Tartaglione M. Morgano M. Strobl J. Long A. S. Tremsin M. Schulz New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition
description	Abstract Imaging using scintillators is a widespread and cost-effective approach in radiography. While different types of scintillator and sensor configurations exist, it can be stated that the detection efficiency and resolution of a scintillator-based system strongly depend on the scintillator material and its thickness. Recently developed event-driven detectors are capable of registering spots of light emitted by the scintillator after a particle interaction, allowing to reconstruct the Center-of-Mass of the interaction within the scintillator. This results in a more precise location of the event and therefore provides a pathway to overcome the scintillator thickness limitation and increase the effective spatial resolution of the system. Utilizing this principle, we present a detector capable of Time-of-Flight imaging with an adjustable field-of-view, ad-hoc binning and re-binning of data based on the requirements of the experiment including the possibility of particle discrimination via the analysis of the event shape in space and time. It is considered that this novel concept might replace regular cameras in neutron imaging detectors as it provides superior detection capabilities with the most recent results providing an increase by a factor 3 in image resolution and an increase by up to a factor of 7.5 in signal-to-noise for thermal neutron imaging.
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author	A. S. Losko Y. Han B. Schillinger A. Tartaglione M. Morgano M. Strobl J. Long A. S. Tremsin M. Schulz
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title	New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition
title_short	New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition
title_full	New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition
title_fullStr	New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition
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publisher	Nature Portfolio
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New perspectives for neutron imaging through advanced event-mode data acquisition

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