A gas-filled channel converter for fast coincidence cameras

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 515-520

  Neumann, Michael J ^a  

^a Franklin McLean Memorial Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE CAMERAS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0016922960     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.1977.4328734     Document Type: Article

References (22)

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2. Completely lost in an energy-blind camera is the valuable information content of properly utilized scattered radiation spectrum as predicted by R.N. Beck et al.: A Theory of Optimum Utilization of All Detected Radiation, Proceedings of the University of California Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors in Medicine, San Francisco, March 1973. USAEC, CONF-730321, pp. 87–106, 1973, and proven by L.W. Oberly et al.: The Variable Baseline Scanner, Phys. Med. Biol. 17, pp. 630–637, 1972.
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5. Thanks to the generous help with factory reject microchannel plates from Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, and patient guidance by Dominic Ruggieri and his colleagues.
6. The author is especially indebted to the Night Technology (Ni-Tec) Corporation, Skokie, Illinois, and to Mr. Barry Polivka and his colleagues for the loan of unique microchannel blocks and invaluable technical advice.
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19. Suggested by Mr. John Stupka, FMI Development Shop.
20. Thanks to Mr. Ben M. Rasmussen from the Hexcel Corporation, Dearborn, Michigan.
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