International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (IWORID04)

25 Jul 2004, 10:00 → 29 Jul 2004, 13:30 Europe/Zurich

Kelvin Building, University of Glasgow

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Sunday, 25 July

10:00 → 18:00 Outing to Scottish Highlands

10:00 Leave Glasgow

11:00 Visit Callander

Free time to walk around

12:00 Visit Trossachs Woollen Mill

Place to shop. Lunch!!!

Speaker: lady with spinning wheel

13:15 Leave Callander

13:45 Boat trip on SS Sir Walter Scott

15:00 Leave Loch Katrine

15:30 Visit Aberfoyle

Free time to walk around

16:00 Leave Aberfoyle

16:30 Visit Dumgoyne Distillery

Try a dram of Glengoyne 10 Year Old Single Highland Malt.

Speaker: PR Assistant

18:00 → 20:00 Welcome Drinks & Registration

Monday, 26 July

09:00 → 10:30 Opening Session

09:15 Welcoming Address

Speaker: Prof. David Saxon (Dean of Faculty of Physical Sciences)

09:30 → 17:30 Industrial Exhibition

09:30 → 10:30 Lunch / Industrial Exhibition

09:30 Agilent Technologies

09:30 Applied Scintillation Technologies

09:30 Gesec R&D

09:30 Keithley Instruments

09:30 Metprep

09:30 OneCall (Farnell)

09:30 → 10:30 Solid State Radiation Detectors

09:30 Invited talk - Semiconductor track detectors: a brief history from 0D to 3D

Speaker: Prof. Sherwood Parker (University of Hawaii)

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10:00 Invited talk - Diamond (Radiation Detectors) are for ever!

Speaker: Prof. Harris Kagan (Ohio State University)

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10:30 → 11:00 Morning Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 X-ray Detectors

11:00 Invited talk - Pixel detector arrays for X-ray Astronomy

Speaker: Prof. George Fraser (Leicester University)

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11:30 Optimization of X-ray dynamic defectoscopy using Medipix-2 for high frame rate read-out

Speaker: D. Vavrik (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of CTU, Prague)

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11:45 Digital X-ray portable scanner based on monolithic semi-insulating GaAs detectors: General description and first ‘quantum’ images

Speaker: A. Perdochova (Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava)

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12:00 Influence of Backscattering on the Spatial Resolution of Semiconductor X-ray Detectors

Speaker: M. Hoheisel (Siemens AG, Nurnberg)

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12:15 Material Reconstruction with Spectroscopic Pixel X-ray Detectors

Speaker: J.Giersch (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

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13:30 → 15:00 Compound Materials

13:30 Resolution degradation of semiconductor detectors due to incomplete charge collection

Speaker: A. G. Kozorezov (Lancaster University)

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13:45 PbI2 as a direct semiconductor for use in radiation imaging detectors

Speaker: G. C. Tyrrell (AST, Harlow)

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14:00 Electronic and ionic processes influence on electrical and photoelectrical properties of TlBr crystals

Speaker: J. Vaitkus (Vilnius University)

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14:15 The influence of tellurium precipitates on mobility in CdTe

Speaker: A. W. Davies (University of Surrey)

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14:30 Characterisation of TlBr Crystals for Detector Applications

Speaker: V. Kozlov (University of Helsinki)

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14:45 Experimental Simulation of a Spectroscopic Pixel X-Ray Detector

Speaker: C. Reinhart (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

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15:00 → 15:30 Afternoon Tea

15:30 → 17:00 Synchrotron Applications

15:30 Invited talk - 4th generation light sources and demands on detectors

Speaker: Prof. Edwin Westbrook

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16:00 GaN UV detectors for synchrotron-based protein structure studies

Speaker: A. Blue (Glasgow University)

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16:15 Looking into dynamical diffraction: Using the sensor crystal of the Medipix2 for both diffraction and observation of X-rays

Speaker: M. Mitschke (University of Erlangen)

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16:45 State of the art on epitaxial GaAs detectors

Speaker: G.C. Sun (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI))

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18:00 → 19:00 Whisky Tasting / Buffet Dinner

20:00 → 23:55 Ceilidh (traditional Scottish evening)

Tuesday, 27 July

09:00 → 10:30 Medical Imaging

09:00 Invited talk - MRI vs. X-ray imaging

Speaker: Prof. Alex Elliott (Glasgow University)

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09:45 Performances of different digital mammography imaging systems: evaluation and comparison

Speaker: M. G. Bisogni (Universita di Pisa and INFN)

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10:00 Energy Dependence in Dental Imaging with Medipix

Speaker: B. Norlin (Mid-Sweden University)

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10:15 First DQE measurement of 500 um silicon hybrid pixel sensor with Photon Counting readout for X-ray medical imaging

Speaker: B. Surre (University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand)

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10:30 → 11:00 Morning Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 PET and Compton Imaging

11:00 Invited talk - Phosphors and scintillators in radiation imaging detectors

Speaker: Dr. Glenn Tyrrell (AST, Harlow)

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11:30 Design of the coincidence processing board for a dual-head Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner for breast imaging

Speaker: J. D. Martinez (Universidad Politecnica di Valencia)

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11:45 High Spatial Resolution of Depth-of-Interaction in PET-LSO

Speaker: A. Simon (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

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12:00 Design of Scintillator Arrays for Dual-End Depth-of-Interaction Encoding Small-Animal PET Detectors

Speaker: K. C. Burr (GE Research, Niskayuna, NY)

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12:15 Development of an advanced Compton camera with gaseous TPC and scintillator

Speaker: A. Takada (Kyoto University)

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12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Particle Physics Applications

13:30 The NA60 Silicon Vertex Spectrometer

Speaker: K. Banicz (University of Heidelberg)

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13:45 The LHCb Silicon Tracker

Speaker: H. Voss (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne)

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14:00 Status and Performance of the CDF Run II Silicon Detector

Speaker: R. S. Wallny (UCLA)

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14:15 A Silicon Vertex Tracker Upgrade for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

Speaker: J. M. Heuser (RIKEN)

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14:30 The ATLAS Pixel Detector: a hundred million channels vertex detector for LHC

Speaker: G. Gagliardi (University of Genoa and INFN)

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14:45 Pixel Hybrid Photon Detectors for the RICH Detectors of LHCb

Speaker: L. Somerville (University of Oxford)

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15:00 → 15:30 Afternoon Tea

15:30 → 17:00 Gaseous Detectors

15:30 Invited talk - Fast read-out pixel front-ends for adaptive optics in very large telescopes

Speaker: Dr. John Vallerga (LBNL, U.S.A)

16:00 The readout of gaseous detectors by means of a Micromegas-covered pixel-segmented CMOS anode

Speaker: A. Fornaini (NIKHEF, Amsterdam)

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16:15 HPD set-up tests of backside illuminated monolithic CMOS pixel sensor

Speaker: W. Dulinski (LEPSI, Strasbourg)

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16:30 Invited talk - Readout of the LHCb pixel hybrid photon detector

Speaker: Dr. Ken Wyllie (CERN)

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17:00 → 18:30 Conference Reception

Wednesday, 28 July

09:00 → 10:30 Novel Applications I

09:00 Invited talk - Pixel detectors for retinal imaging

Speaker: Prof. Alan Litke (SCIPP,UC Santa Cruz, USA)

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09:30 30 um Spacing 519-Electrode Arrays for In-Vitro Retinal Studies

Speaker: D. Gunning (Glasgow University)

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09:45 Direct Detection of 120 keV Electrons in a 525 by 525 pixel CMOS Detector

Speaker: A. R. Faruqi (MRC Lab. Of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

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10:00 Spatial Resolution of the Medipix-2 as Neutron Pixel Detector

Speaker: J. Jakubek (IEAP, Czech Technical University)

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10:30 → 11:00 Morning Coffee

11:00 → 11:45 Novel Applications II

11:00 CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors for Ionising Radiation

Speaker: A. Evans (University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK)

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11:15 Design and test of a data acquisition system based on USB interface for the Medipix 2 chip.

Speaker: P. Randaccio (INFN di Cagliari, Italy.)

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11:30 Development of Flexible Arrays for in-vivo neuronal Recording and Stimulation

Speaker: C. Adams (Glasgow University)

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11:45 → 12:30 Radiation Hard Detectors I

11:45 Studies of bulk damage induced in different silicon materials by 900 MeV electron irradiation

Speaker: S. Dittongo (INFN Sezione di Trieste, Italy)

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12:00 Radiation hardness of graded-gap AlxGa1-xAs X-ray detectors

Speaker: A. Silenas (Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius)

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12:15 The LHCb Vertex Locator

Speaker: L. Eklund (CERN)

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12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:15 Radiation Hard Detectors II

13:30 Invited talk - Recent Developments on Radiation Hard Semiconductor Detectors for SuperLHC

Speaker: Dr. Michael Moll (CERN)

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14:00 Analysis and Simulation of Charge Collection Efficiency in Si Thin Detectors

Speaker: M. Petasecca (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna)

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14:15 Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Detectors for Harsh Radiation Environments

Speaker: W. Cunningham on behalf of J. Grant (Glasgow University)

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14:30 Evolution of Detrapping Currents for a-Si FETs Exposed to Radiation

Speaker: S. Zelakiewicz (General Electric – Global Research, Niskayuna, NY)

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14:45 Measurements and Simulations of Charge Collection Efficiency of p+/n Junction SiC Detectors

Speaker: F. Moscatelli (CNR-IMM Sezione di Bologna)

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15:00 3D Silicon and radiation hardness

Speaker: C. Da Via (Brunel university)

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15:15 → 15:30 Afternoon Tea

15:30 → 17:00 Poster Session

15:30 A new X-/Gamma-ray telescope concept for high spectroscopy

Speaker: W. Dusi (Bologna, Italy)

15:30 Beam test of a Si dosimeter prototype for characterisation of medical radiotherapy systems

Speaker: I. Redondo-Fernandez (University of Sheffield)

15:30 Characterisation of as-grown and heavy irradiated GaN epitaxial structures by photoconductivity and photoluminescence

Speaker: E. Gaubas (Vilnius University)

15:30 Characterisation of the carrier recombination and trapping processes in proton irradiated silicon by microwave absorption transients.

Speaker: E. Gaubas (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

15:30 Development of CZT/CdTe focal plane prototypes for hard X-ray optics.

Speaker: J. B. Stephen (IASF/CNR – Sezione di Bologna)

15:30 Electrical Characteristics of Hybrid Detector based Gd2)2S:Tb-Selenium for Digital Radiation Imaging

Speaker: S-S Kang (Inje University, Korea)

15:30 Fabrication and characterization of n-on-n silicon pixel detectors compatible with the Medipix2 readout chip

Speaker: N .Zorzi (ITC-inst Divisione Microsistemi, Trento)

15:30 Feasibility Studey of a XML-Based Software Environment to Manage Data Acquisition Hardware Devices

Speaker: I. Magrans (CERN)

15:30 Image quality of Medipix2 assemblies with silicon detectors of two different thicknesses

Speaker: F. Quarati (Glasgow University)

15:30 Noiseless Detection of Electrons in Medipix2 for Electron Microscopy

Speaker: A. R. Faruqi (MRC Lab. Of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)

15:30 Performance of Multi-anode Photomultiplier Tubes for the LHCb RICH detectors

Speaker: A. Pickford (Glasgow University)

15:30 Rare earth oxysulphide screens and their usage in X-ray and electron beam imaging

Speaker: J. P. Creasey (AST, Harlow)

15:30 Simulation of the detective quantum Efficiency for a hybrid pixel detector

Speaker: L. del R. Norrlid (Uppsala University)

15:30 Study of Silicon and Gallium Arsenide 3-D detectors designed for the Medipix1 chip

Speaker: V. Wright (Glasgow University)

15:30 The Energy Weighting Technique: Simulations and Measurements

Speaker: D. Niederlohner (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

15:30 Ultraviolet imaging using organic and inorganic phosphors with CCD detectors

Speaker: S. J. Moody (AST, Harlow)

18:00 → 23:20 Conference Banquet

18:00 Bus departs from University Avenue

18:30 Drinks reception at the Burrell Collection

19:00 View the historic collection of Sir William Burrell

20:00 Dinner

23:00 Bus departs from the Burrell Collection

Thursday, 29 July

09:00 → 11:30 Spectroscopy and Energy Resolving Detectors

09:30 Invited talk - Prospects for Energy Resolving X-ray Imaging with Compound Semiconductor Pixel Detectors.

Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Milano, Italy)

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10:00 Energy deposition and charge transport in pixellated semiconductor X-ray detectors

Speaker: C. Frojdh (Mid-Sweden University)

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10:15 Using the Medipix2 Detector for Energy Weighting

Speaker: J. Karg (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

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10:30 Fabrication and Characterization of Thin DE-Detector for Spectroscopic Application

Speaker: G.Thungstrom (Mid-Sweden University)

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10:30 → 11:00 Morning Coffee

11:00 → 12:30 Summary and Close

11:00 Summary of workshop

Speaker: K. Smith

11:30 The Future of Radiation Detectors

Speaker: Panel Discussion

12:00 Closing remarks

Speaker: S. Petersson

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch