[Prospects for the use in medicine of new detectors of ionizing radiation]

Abstract

The evolution in particle physics requires new detectors at the emergence of new accelerators, requiring higher rates and better position accuracy. The wire chambers have found applications in the imaging of beta rays and low dose radiography. The new detectors foreseen for the end of this century will have position accuracy of the order of 10 microns and high rate capabilities passing by one or two orders of magnitude the wire chambers. They are promised to wide applications in all fields of radiation imaging.