M7-2 The Liquid Xenon Detector for PET: Recent Results
V.Y. Chepel¹, M. Lopes¹, J. van der Marel¹, P. Crespo¹, D. Santos², L. Janeiro¹, V.N. Solovov¹, R. Ferreira Marques¹, A.J. Policarpo^{1
1LIP-Coimbra and Physics Dept. of the Univ. of Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal, 2Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Univ. of Aveiro, 3810 Aveiro, Portugal}

M7-4 Sampling the Point Spread Function of a Positron Emission Tomograph
J.A. McIntyre¹, J.T. Paulson¹, J. Aguiar¹, R.D. Allen^{1
1Physics Dept., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Texas}

M7-6 A Study of Depth of Interaction Measurement Using Bent Optical Fibers
Y. Shao¹, S.R. Cherry¹, A. Boutefnouchet^{1
1Crump Inst. for Biological Imaging, UCLA School of Medicine}

M7-8 An APD-based Quad Scintillator Detector Module with Pulse Shape Discrimination Coding for PET
R. Lecomte¹, A. Saoudi¹, D. Rouleau¹, H. Dautet², D. Waechter², M. Andreaco³, M. Casey³, L. Eriksson³, R. Nutt^{3
1Université de Sherbrooke, 2EG&G Optoelectronics, 3CTI PET Systems}

M7-10 Development of a 3D Position Sensitive Scintillation Detector using Neural Networks
D. Clément^1,2, R. Frei¹, J. Loude¹, C. Morel^{2
1Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Univ. of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, 2Division of Nuclear Medicine, Geneva Univ. Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 4}

M7-12 Influence of Malfunctioning Detectors on the Calculation of Single Detector Efficiencies in PET
N. Ferreira¹, R. Trebossen¹, B. Bendriem^{1
1Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot - CEA, Orsay, France}

M7-14 Bypassing the CAMAC Data Bus to Read Out FERA Data at Higher Rates
S. Siegel¹, J. Vaquero¹, J. Seidel¹, W.R. Gandler¹, M.V. Green^{1
1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD}

M7-16 Optimisation of Noise Equivalent Count Rates for Brain and Body FDG Imaging using Gamma Camera PET
D. Visvikis¹, T.D. Fryer², S. Downey^{1
1Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Univ. of Cambridge Clinical School, Cambridge, UK, 2Dept. of Medical Physics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK}

M7-18 Initial Characterization of the Siemens ECAM+: A Dual-Detector Camera With Coincidence Imaging Capability
S.D. Wollenweber¹, B.M. Tsui¹, T.D. Rempel², V. Simcic^{2
1The Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2Siemens Medical Systems}

M7-20 Two-Detector, Asymmetric Cone-Beam Helical SPECT
G.L. Zeng¹, G.T. Gullberg^{1
1Radiology, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT}

M7-22 Cerebral Blood Flow Imaging using Ectomography - a Feasibility Study
C. Lyckman¹, S. Dale¹, M. Persson¹, D. Bone^{1
1Dept. of Medical engineering, Karolinska institute, Novum, S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden}

M7-24 Investigation of Large Field-of-View Transmission Imaging for SPECT Attenuation Compensation with Different Energy Sources
M.P. Tornai¹, D.R. Gilland¹, R.J. Jaszczak¹, R.E. Coleman¹, F. Coutand², A. Wattellier², Y. Ooie³, M. Taguchi³, G. Enos^{3
1Duke Univ. Medical Center, 2Medasys Digital Systems, 3Hitachi Medical Corporation}

M7-26 Monte Carlo Analysis of Resolution and Noise Correlation in Digital X-ray Image Detectors
M.J. Flynn^1,2, S.E. Wilderman^{2
1X-ray Imaging Res. Lab., Henry Ford Health Sys.,Detroit, MI, 2Nucl. Engr. & Rad. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI}

M7-28 An Inexpensive Phantom for Evaluating Gated Blood Pool Data Acquisition/Processing Systems at Heart Rates Above 400/min
J. Vaquero¹, S. Siegel¹, J. Seidel¹, M.V. Green^{1
1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD}

M7-28.4 Use of Ion Exchange Resin for Dynamic PET Phantom
E.L. Yeh¹, S. Huang¹, J.R. Barrio¹, E.J. Hoffman^{1
1Dept. of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA School of Medicine}

M7-30 Preliminary Measurements with a Coded-Aperture X-Ray Microscope
M. Dallimore¹, I.D. Jupp¹, P.T. Durrant¹, D. Ramsden^{1
1Univ. of Southampton}

M7-32 Evaluation of the TierPET System
S. Weber¹, H. Herzog², H. Coenen³, R. Engels¹, F. Kehren², R. Reinartz¹, P. Reinhart¹, F. Rongen¹, F. Sonnenberg¹, H. Halling^{1
1Zentrallabor fuer Elektronik, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 2Inst. fuer Medizin, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 3Inst. fuer Nuklearchemie, Forschungszentrum Juelich}

M7-34 TOHR: 15 Modules Prototype Characterization and First evaluation
L. Ploux¹, L. Pinot¹, R. Mastrippolito¹, P. Laniece², Y. Charon², F. Pain¹, L. Valentin^{2
1Inst. de Physique Nucléaire, Université de Paris 11, Orsay Cedex, France, 2Groupe Modelisation Physique et Interfaces Biologie, Université de Paris 7, 2 place Jussieu, Paris, France}

M7-36 Progress in the Development of a 1mm Small Animal PET
J.A. Correia^1,2, C.A. Burnham^1,2, D. Kaufman¹, A.J. Fischman^{1,2
1Massachusetts General Hospital, 2Harvard Medical School}

M7-38 An Ultra High Resolution ECG-Gated Myocardial Imaging System for Small Animals
M.C. Wu¹, M.W. Dae¹, H. Tang¹, K. Iwata¹, A.J. Da Silva¹, B.H. Hasegawa^{1
1Univ. of California, San Francisco}

M7-40 A DSP Based Real-Time Position Calculation Circuit for Beta Camera
S. Yamamoto¹, T. Matusda², I. Kanno^{2
1Kobe City College of Tech., 2Research Inst. for Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita}

M7-42 An MCP-Based System for Beta Autoradiography
J.E. Lees¹, J.F. Pearson¹, G.W. Fraser¹, J.M. Hales¹, P. Richards^{1
1Univ. of Leicester, England}

M7-44 SIC: an Intracerebral Radiosensitive Probe for in vivo Neuropharmacology Investigations in Awake Small Laboratory Animals
F. Pain¹, P. Laniece², R. Mastrippolito¹, L. Ploux¹, Y. Charon², L. Valentin^{2
1Inst. de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de Paris 11, Orsay cedex, France, 2Groupe Modelisation Physique et Interfaces Biologie, Universite de Paris 7, Paris, France}

M7-46 Quantification in Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) with Planar Detectors: Contrast Resolution Measurements using a Custom Breast Phantom and Novel Spherical Hot-Spots.
K. Murthy¹, D. Jolly¹, C.J. Thompson¹, A. Loutfi², R. Lisbona^1,2, J.H. Gagnon^{2
1Montreal Neurological Inst., McGill Univ., 2Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec}

M7-48 A Portable High-Resolution PET Detector with Fixed Dual-Plane Geometry
W.A. Worstell¹, H.A. Kudrolli¹, V.G. Zavarzin^{1
1Boston Univ. Physics Dept.}

M7-50 Simulation of Breast Tumor Imaging Properties with Compact, Discrete Scintillation Cameras
G.J. Gruber¹, W.W. Moses¹, S.E. Derenzo^{1
1LBNL, Univ. of California}

M7-52 Pattern Design and Imaging Methods in 3-D Coded Aperture Techniques
L. Zhang¹, B.K. Horn², R.C. Lanza^{1
1Dept. of Nuclear Eng., MIT, NW13-213, Cambridge, MA , 2Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci., Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, NE43-715A, Cambridge, MA}

M7-54 The Interaction of Collimator Lattice Periodicity and Detector Pixelation
D.L. Gunter¹, K.P. Matthews¹, C.E. Ordonez^{1
1Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke's Medical Center}

M7-56 High Energy 3-D Nuclear Medicine Imaging using Coded Apertures with a Conventional Gamma Camera
L. Zhang¹, R.C. Lanza¹, B.K. Horn², R.E. Zimmerman^{3
1Dept. of Nuclear Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA , 2Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci., Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, NE43-715A, Cambridge, MA , 3Dept. of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA}

M7-58 Angular Uncertainties due to Geometry and Spatial Resolution in Compton Cameras
C.E. Ordonez¹, W. Chang¹, A.I. Bolozdynya^{2
1Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 2Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH}