M3 Instrumentation/Detectors II
Thursday 1:30-3:00, Frontenac Ballroom
Chair: Martin P. Tornai, Duke University & Rich Freifelder, University of Pennsylvania

M3-1 A Novel Silicon Array for Intraoperative Charged-Particle Imaging
M.P. Tornai1, B.E. Patt2, J.S. Iwanczyk2, C.R. Tull2, E.J. Hoffman3
1Duke Univ. Medical Center, 2Photon Imaging, Inc., 3UCLA School of Medicine

M3-2 An LSO BLOCK Detector for PET Using an Avalanche Photodiode Array
M.E. Casey1, H. Dautet2, D. Waechter2, R. Lecomte3, L. Eriksson1, M. Schmand1,4
1CTI PET Systems, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, 2EG&G Optoelectronics, Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada, 3Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, 4Max-Planck-Inst. for Neurology Research, Cologne, Germany

M3-3 The Imaging Performance Characteristics of a Variable Field of View PET Camera Using PMT Quadrant Sharing Detector Design
J. Uribe1, H. Baghaei1, H. Li1, S. Yokoyama1, N. Zhang1, J. Wang1, F.R. Dobbs1, W. Wong1
1The Univ. of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

M3-4 Slotted Surface Treatment on Position-Sensitive NaI(Tl) Detectors to Improve Spatial Resolution
S. Surti1,2, R. Freifelder2, J.S. Karp2, J.A. Wear2
1Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2Dept. of Radiology, Univ. of Pennsylvania

M3-5 Compton Imaging of Positron Emitters: Work in Progress
M. Scannavini1, R.D. Speller1, G.J. Royle1, I. Cullum2
1Dept. of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Univ. College London, 2Inst. of Nuclear Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, Univ. College London

M3-6 Implementation and Performance of an Optical Motion Tracking System for High Resolution PET Brain Imaging
A. Russo1,2, B.J. Lopresti1, W.F. Jones3, T. Fisher4, D.G. Crouch4, D.A. Altenburger1, D.W. Townsend1
1PET Facility, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, B-938 PUH, 200 Lothrop St., Pittsburgh, PA , 2Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 3CTI PET Systems, Inc., 810 Innovation Dr., Knoxville TN, 4Northern Digital, Inc., 403 Albert St., Waterloo, Canada