Compton Camera based upon YAP:Ce Multi-crystal detectors

Nuclear medicine studies the functionality of the human body by administering radio-pharmaceuticals. Nuclear medicine imaging suffers, however from poor spatial resolution, as in SPECT and PET applications, and only achieves high sensitivity with the use of positron emitters in PET. Recently YAP camera technology has demonstrated much potential in overcoming the limitations of the Anger camera. The YAP camera can provide the first step toward a more advanced camera; the Compton Camera, which is potentially capable of carrying out comprable diagnostic information to PET using single photon emitters. In this work a novel Compton camera design is introduced. It is based upon operating the YAP camera and a solid state detector in concidence to track scattered photons.