Cadmium Zinc Telluride: The New-Generation Detector Material for SPECT

Invited Speech by Dr. Craig Levin (Dec 9, 2025); Professor of Radiology and, by Courtesy, of Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering at Stanford; and founding member of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford. 0:00 Introduction to Program 3:52 Outline of Talk ✧ Brief review of scintillation detectors ✧ Brief review of scintillation camera design ✧ Basics of a cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detector ✧ Position sensitive CZT detectors ✧ Comparison between CZT and NaI(Tl) detectors ✧ CZT SPECT camera configurations and results ✧ CZT PET ?