This course describes the concepts behind Radiation Imaging and Remote Sensing, both in term of the various types of detectors used for radiation imaging, and their application to radiation monitoring and sensing. Both semiconductor and scintillators imaging detectors will be described, including the latest developments in silicon pixel detectors and CMOS pixellated devices. Imaging theory will also be reviewed, including Modulation Transfer Function and Detector Quantum Efficiency. The application of detectors for radiation imaging will be described, including Compton scatter telescopes, coded-aperture cameras and collimated detectors. The application of imaging will be explored in terms of remote sensing, with a particular emphasis on environmental measurements and security imaging.

This module will provide the student with a more detailed understanding of the operation and performance of various semiconductor and scintillator-based imaging detectors, including silicon pixel detectors, CMOS sensors, scintillators-based cameras and neutron imaging detectors. The module will explore quantitative methods for assessing imaging detector performance, and will discuss the use of imaging and remote sensing detectors for various applications, including security imaging, remote monitoring, and environmental measurements.

Lecturer	Title	Lecture	Lab
		Hours	Hours
Dr D A Bradley	Semiconductor imaging detectors: Hybrid pixel, TFT, deep-depletion ccd   Scintillator imaging detectors: CCD/cmos with phosphors, thick film scintillators (columnar CsI), scintillating fibres   X-ray imaging and CT: X-ray transmission imaging and CT reconstruction, X-ray scatter techniques, phase contrast imaging, and energy resolved/spectroscopic techniques. Use of synchrotron beams.   Analysis of image data: DQE, MTF etc.	9
Dr James Parkin   (Lab Impex Ltd)	Environmental and Remote Sensing detector systems.   Installed area and stack effluent monitoring systems.   Field measurements: detectors and instrumentation for environmental and low background measurements   Continuous air monitors – challenges and theories of operation	6
Dr I Jupp   (DSTL)	Applications in security imaging (1):   Compton cameras – principles of operation   Coded Aperture imagers   Backscatter and pinhole imaging	3
Dr W Gilboy	Neutron detection and imaging detectors: BF3 and He3 tubes, boron and lithium loaded scintillators, neutron imaging.	6
Dr P Burgess   (Nuvia Ltd)	Overview of Thermo Electronic Personal Dosemeter (EPD)   Purpose, choice of detectors, principles of detection for X and gamma radition, evolution of design	3
Prof P H Regan	Applications in security imaging (2)   Detection of hidden sources and isotope identification   Active interrogation techniques: pulse neutron/gamma irradiation, high energy X-ray sources	3

1. “Radiation Detection and Measurement”, Knoll G.F., Edition 3 1999
2. “Semiconductor Radiation Detectors”, Lutz, G., Springer 1999
3. “The Physics of Medical Imaging”, Ed. Webb, S., IoPP, 2002
4. “The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging”, Ed. Bushberg, J.T., Williams and Wilkins, 1994
5. “Physics in Nuclear Medecine”, Cherry, Sorenson and Phelps, Saunders Edition 3, 2003

17th December 2010