2010 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD SpoNSoRS Table of ConTenTs Conference-at-a-Glance................................................................... 3 Welcome.from.the.General.Chair.................................................... 7 Contact.Information....................................................................... 9 Registration.Information............................................................... 11 General.Information..................................................................... 14 Companion.Program.................................................................... 18 Technical.Tours............................................................................. 22 Oral.and.Poster.Presentaion.Guidelines........................................ 24 Publications.................................................................................. 25 Short.Course.Program................................................................... 28 Industrial.Program........................................................................ 38 Special.Focus.Workshops............................................................... 41 Special.Events................................................................................ 45 NSS.Overview.and.Keynote.Speakers............................................ 47 MIC.Overview.and.Keynote.Speakers........................................... 54 RTSD.Overview............................................................................ 59 Daily.Technical.Program............................................................... 61 Monday,.Nov..1.................................................................... 62 Tuesday,.Nov..2.................................................................... 78 Wednesday,.Nov..3............................................................. 116 Thursday,.Nov.4................................................................. 154 Friday,.Nov..5..................................................................... 184 Saturday,.Nov..6................................................................. 208 Acknowledgment........................................................................ 229 Author.Index............................................................................... 245 Announcement.of.the.2011.IEEE.NSS-MIC-RTSD................... 287 ConferenCe-aT-a-glanCe Knoxville Convention Center Friday Saturday Sunday 30 October 30 October 31 October Registration Registration Registration 17:00 - 20:00 07:30 - 09:30 07:30 - 09:30 15:30 - 18:30 15:30 - 18:30 08:30 Short Courses Conference-at-a-Glance Radiation Detection and Short Courses Measurement Radiation Detection and NSS Oral Sessions Floor Three Room 301-C Exhibit Hall B Measurement Ballroom A, E,F & G ----- Computer Room Room 301-C Session Chair breakfast Advanced Photodetectors Plenaries & MIC Sessions 300 A&B C 300 D ----- Room 301-A Ballroom A & B & C Integrated Circuit Front-Ends for ----- Nuclear Pulse Processing Image Quality in Adaptive and Room 301-E West Concourse Multimodality Imaging Room 301-E Enter Ballroom F & G via D EF G Clinch 10:00 Conference Reception No public access ConcourseMain Coee Break 10:30 Cumberland AB C Concourse ABCDE Entrance Short Courses Henley Concourse Radiation Detection and CIP & Registration Measurement Companion Tour Meeting Room 301-C Rotunda Room RTSD, Other, Short Courses, NSS Sessions Information Short Courses ----- 301 A & B 301 C 301 C, D & E 301 D & E Radiation Detection and Advanced Photodetectors Measurement Room 301-A Room 301-C ----- ----- Image Quality in Adaptive and Integrated Circuit Front-Ends for Multimodality Imaging Nuclear Pulse Processing Room 301-E Room 301-E Workshop Homogeneous Hadronic Calorimeter Detector Concept Room 200-E HHCAL& PETMR WS Starts at 10:00 Exhibitor Presentations Floor Two 12:00 200 E Refresher Lunch Courses Plaza Terrace 13:30 Short Courses Park Concourse Radiation Detection and Measurement Lecture Hall Room 301-C ----- Short Courses Advanced Photodetectors No public access Radiation Detection and Measurement Room 301-A ----- Room 301-C Image Quality in Adaptive and Take Escalator Take Escalator to ----- Multimodality Imaging to upper floor Exhibition and Poster Integrated Circuit Front-Ends for Nuclear Pulse Processing Room 301-E Room 301-E Workshop Homogeneous Hadronic Calorimeter Detector Concept Room 200-E 15:00 Coee Break 15:30 Short Courses Radiation Detection and Take Escalator Measurement Exhibit Hall B Floor One Short Courses Room 301-C to upper floor ----- Radiation Detection and Advanced Photodetectors Exhibitor Reception Measurement Room 301-A Room 301-C ----- ----- Image Quality in Adaptive and Integrated Circuit Front-Ends for Multimodality Imaging Nuclear Pulse Processing Room 301-E Exhibition Room 301-E Coffee breaks here during Exhibition Short Courses End: 17:00 No public access Lunch available Poster Session Workshop Homogeneous Hadronic Calorimeter Detector Concept 17:00 Room 200-E 18:00 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 November Registration Registration Registration Registration 07:30 - 17:00 07:30 - 19:00 07:30 - 18:00 07:30 - 17:00 07:30 MIC Refresher Course Lecture Hall 07:30 - 08:15 08:30 Oral Sessions 08:30 Exhibition Exhibition NSS Sessions Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Ballrooms A,E,F 09:00 - 18:00 09:00 - 18:00 Starts: 08:00 Short Courses MIC Plenary Session Oral Sessions ----- Medical Image Reconstruction Ballrooms B + C NSS Sessions Conference-at-a-Glance Conference-at-a-Glance NSS/MIC Joint Session I Room 301-D Oral Sessions Ballrooms A,E,F,G Ballrooms B+C ----- NSS Sessions Rooms 300-D+E ----- Molecular Imaging Ballrooms A,E,F,G Starts: 08:00 RTSD Sessions Room 301-E Rooms 300-D+E ----- Rooms 301-A+B Starts: 08:00 MIC Sessions ----- ----- Ballroom B, Ballroom C Exhibitor Techical Sessions RTSD Sessions ----- Room 200-E Rooms 301-A+B RTSD Sessions NSS Plenary Session Rooms 301-A+B Ballrooms B+C NSS Poster Session NSS Poster Session ----- Starts: 08:15 Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Exhibitor Techical Sessions 09:30 Coee Break Room 200-E 10:00 Coee Break 10:00 Coee Break 10:30 Exhibition Exhibition Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Oral Sessions 09:00 - 18:00 09:00 - 18:00 NSS Sessions Oral Sessions MIC Awards Plenary Ballrooms A,E,F NSS Sessions Short Courses Ballrooms B + C Medical Image Reconstruction ----- Ballrooms A,E,F,G Oral Sessions Room 301-D NSS/MIC Joint Session II Rooms 300-D+E ----- Ballrooms B+C NSS Sessions ----- Molecular Imaging ----- Ballrooms A,E,F,G MIC Sessions Room 301-E RTSD Sessions Rooms 300-D+E Ballroom B, Ballroom C Rooms 301-A+B ----- ----- ----- RTSD Sessions RTSD Sessions Exhibitor Techical Sessions Rooms 301-A+B Rooms 301-A+B Room 200-E ----- ----- Exhibitor Techical Sessions Exhibitor Techical Sessions Room 200-E Room 200-E Workshop NSS Plenary Session Intellectual Property in NSS Poster Session NSS Poster Session Ballrooms B + C Fundamental Research Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Ends: 11:30 Room 200-A Ends: 12:30 11:30 NSS Refresher Course 12:00 NSS Refresher Course NSS Refresher Course Lunch Lecture Hall Lecture Hall Lecture Hall 12:15 - 13:15 12:15 - 13:15 12:15 - 13:15 NSS Lunch RTSD Lunch Ballroom F+G Lunch Lunch "Star of Knoxville" 11:30 - 13:30 11:30 - 14:00 13:30 Exhibition 13:30 Exhibit Hall B Exhibition Exhibition Short Courses 12:00 - 21:00 Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Medical Image Reconstruction Oral Sessions 09:00 - 18:00 09:00 - 18:00 Room 301-D NSS Sessions ----- Ballrooms A,E,F Molecular Imaging Oral Sessions Oral Sessions ----- NSS Sessions NSS Sessions Room 301-E NSS/MIC Joint Session III Ballrooms A,E,F,G Ballrooms A,E,F,G Ballrooms B+C Rooms 300-D+E Rooms 300-D+E ----- Workshop ----- ----- RTSD Sessions PET-MR RTSD Sessions RTSD Sessions Rooms 301-A+B Rooms 301-A+B Rooms 301-A+B Room 200-D+E ----- ----- ----- Exhibitor Techical Sessions Oral Sessions MIC Sessions Exhibitor Techical Sessions Room 200-E NSS Sessions Ballroom B+C Room 200-E Ballrooms A,B,C,E ----- NSS Poster Session NSS Poster Session MIC Poster Session I RTSD Sessions Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Rooms 301-A+B 15:30 Co ee Break 15:30 Coee Break 16:00 Short Courses Exhibition 16:00 Exhibition Exhibition Medical Image Reconstruction Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B Room 301-D 12:00 - 21:00 09:00 - 18:00 09:00 - 18:00 ----- Molecular Imaging Room 301-E Oral Sessions Oral Sessions Oral Sessions NSS Sessions NSS Sessions NSS Sessions Short Courses End: 17:00 Ballrooms A,E,F Ballrooms A,E,F,G Ballrooms A,E,F,G ----- Rooms 300-D+E Rooms 300-D+E NSS/MIC/RTSD Joint Session Oral Sessions ----- ----- Ballrooms B+C NSS Sessions RTSD Sessions RTSD Sessions ----- Ballrooms A,B,C,E Rooms 301-A+B Rooms 301-A+B RTSD Sessions ----- ----- ----- Rooms 301-A+B RTSD Sessions MIC Session MIC Session ----- Rooms 301-A+B Ballroom B+C Ballroom B+C Exhibitor Techical Sessions ----- ----- Room 200-E Workshop Ends: 17:00 Exhibitor Techical Sessions Exhibitor Techical Sessions PET-MR Room 200-E Room 200-E Room 200-D+E Ends: 17:00 Ends: 17:00 Ends: 21:00 NSS Poster Session NSS Poster Session Exhibit Hall B Exhibit Hall B 18:00 18:00 GOLD Reception Room 200-A 18:00 - 20:00 19:00 Exhibits Reception 19:00 Conference Reception Women in Engineering Exhibit Hall B Cumberland Concourse Room 200-B 19:00 - 21:00 Opens: 19:00 18:00 - 20:00 4 5 Friday Saturday WelCome from The general Chair 5 November 6 November Registration Registration 07:30 - 12:00 07:30 - 09:00 15:00 - 17:00 07:30 MIC Refresher Course MIC Refresher Course Lecture Hall Lecture