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CdTe and CdZnTe Room-Temperature X-Ray and Gamma Ray Detectors and Imaging Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Y. Eisen  and
A. Shor
Y. Eisen
Affiliation:
Soreq NRC, Yavne, Israel, 81800
A. Shor
Affiliation:
Soreq NRC, Yavne, Israel, 81800
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Abstract

CdTe and CdZnTe X-ray and gamma ray detectors in the form of single elements or as monolithic segmented arrays have been shown to be useful in imaging systems utilized in medical, research or industrial applications. These detectors possess inherently better energy resolution than scintillators coupled to either photodiodes or photomultipliers, and they may lead to compact imaging systems or to imaging systems of enhanced spatial resolution and better contrast resolution. Photopeak efficiencies of these detectors is greatly affected by relatively low hole mobility-lifetime product and therefore continuing efforts are still underway to improve the characteristics of both CdTe and CdZnTe materials in order to achieve reproducible detectors with higher photopeak efficiencies for either low or high energy gamma rays.

The following paper is divided into three parts: The first part compares the characteristics of planar CdTe and CdZnTe single elements nuclear detectors containing metal contacts. Characteristics include: Charge collection efficiencies for both electrons and holes indicated by the mobility-lifetime product, energy resolutions, leakage currents and robustness in field use. The second part describes excellent spectroscopic results using a lcm thick CdZnTe monolithic segmented pad detector array. This part also compares spectra for various gamma energies obtained by this segmented detector to that of a 1 cm 3 detector acting as a single element planar detector. The third part discusses the characteristics of a new generation nuclear gamma camera for medical diagnostics based on room-temperature CdTe and CdZnTe spectrometers and its advantages over an Anger type scintillating nuclear camera.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 487: Symposium I – Semiconductors for Room-Temperature Radiation II , 1997 , 129
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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