Abstract The unprecedented capabilities of state-of-the-art segmented germanium-detector arrays, such as AGATA and GRETA, derive from the possibility performing pulse-shape analysis. comparison net- transient-charge signals with databases via grid-search methods allows identification $$\gamma $$ ? -ray intera...

Background: Accurate voxel phantom is needed for dosimetric simulation in radiation therapy for malignant tumors in female pelvic region. However, most of the existing voxel phantoms are constructed on the basis of Caucasian or non-Chinese population. Materials and Methods: A computational framework for constructing female pelvic voxel phantom for radiation dosimetry was performed base...

  Introduction: Arrays of segmented scintillation crystals are useful in megavoltage x-ray imaging detectors for image-guided radiotherapy. Most previous theoretical studies on these detectors have modelled only ionizing-radiation transport. Scintillation light also affects detector performance. ScintSim1, our previously reported optical Monte Carlo code for such detector...

PURPOSE To design and test the feasibility of a novel dual source array, dual detector array TBCT system which is capable of both volumetric CT imaging as well as real-time stereoscopic x-ray imaging for image guided radiotherapy (IGRT). METHODS Besides producing improved image quality, the geometry of TBCT is also more compact and flexible. It is possible to mount two x-ray source arrays and...

The design and development of large scale, high quantum efficiency and high resolution silicon and silicon-germanium (Si/SiGe) avalanche photodiode (APD) focal plane arrays (FPAs) is an active topic of research due to the wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications for such high sensitivity imagers. Avalanche photodiodes can attain single photon sensitive operation due the lar...

Automatic facial feature detection is typically solved by using manually segmented images to train a feature detector. In this paper, we investigate whether it is possible to improve the detection performance of such a feature detector by using additional unsegmented images. We propose a new adaptive automatic facial feature segmentation algorithm which aims to do this. The experimental results...

Use of infrared detector arrays in astronomy began roughly 20 years ago, and our detection capabilities in parts of this spectral range have doubled about every seven months since then. A variety of approaches are now used for detector arrays operating from 1 μm to 1 mm and beyond. They include direct hybrid arrays of InSb and HgCdTe photodiodes that operate from 0.6μm to 5μm, and of Si:As impu...