The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
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Detector Group Builds SPECT Camera for |
 Left to right: Sasha Stolin, Brian Kross, Vladimir Popov and John McKisson designed, developed and built a SPECT camera for Johns Hopkins University that will provide researchers with a high-resolution, high-efficiency device for imaging biological functions in small animals. The JHU research will study vulnerable arterial plaque.
Work by several current and former members of JLab's Radiation Detector and Imaging Group has come to fruition now that they have delivered a specialized imaging camera that they designed, developed and built for Johns Hopkins University researchers. A small team of Detector Group members assembled and installed the Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Camera at the university in November. It will provide JHU researchers with a high-resolution, high-efficiency device for imaging biological functions in small animals. Specifically, the camera was designed to study the basic biology of what is known as vulnerable arterial plaque. Arterial plaque can cause clots that clog arteries in humans and animals, potentially causing a heart attack or stroke. Vulnerable arterial plaque is the plaque that is currently hidden inside the walls of arteries, but has the potential to eventually break loose inside the artery and cause a clot...... more |
Free-Electron Laser staff scientist Pavel Evtushenko knew two things when he was notified in June that he'd been awarded the FEL Young Scientist Prize for 2009: that he was absolutely thrilled and that he was going to have a heck of a time keeping it a secret for two months....
Helios 1, a compact superconducting electron accelerator and storage ring kept at JLab for several years, is on its way to join Helios 2 at the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source located at the National University of Singapore..........
Jefferson Lab is planning a public Open House for Saturday, May 1. Save the date and plan to spend the day at the 2010 Open House, A Celebration of Science......