Main description:

* describes new advances in development of detection systems based on CdZnTe (CZT) and CdTe detectors utilizing a direct conversion of radiation to electric signals
* reports a recent progress in technologies and performance of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) used for reading the light from scintillators
* explores exciting new application opportunities created by development of the cutting-edge detection technologies in X-ray spectroscopy, Computed Tomography (CT), bone dosimetry, and nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT)
* considers the future use of photon counting detectors in clinical computed tomography (CT) scanners providing K-edge imaging to reduce the amount of contrast agents and ultimately offering both an anatomical and a functional information
* describes, uses of radiation detection systems in security applications such as luggage scanning, dirty bomb detection, and border control

Contents:

1. Radiation Detection in SPECT and PET. 2. Imaging Technologies and Potential Clinical Applications of Photon Counting X-Ray Computed Tomography. 3. Optimized Energy Bins for K-Edge Imaging Using a Photon Counting Detector. 4. Spectral Photon-Counting CT System Based on Si-PM Coupled with Novel Ceramic Scintillators. 5. Spectral X-Ray Computed Micro Tomography: 3-Dimensional Chemical Imaging by Using a Pixelated Semiconductor Detector. 6. Range Verification by Means of Prompt-Gamma Detection in Particle Therapy. 7. Compton Cameras and Their Applications. 8. MRI-SPECT Multimodal Imaging. 9. Possibilities of Uses of a CZT Detector in Security Applications. 10. Xenon-Based EL-TPCs for 4 Detection of X-Rays in the Energy Range 10-100 keV.