Simple charge division readouts for imaging scintillator arrays using a multi-channel PMT

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1634-1641

  Siegel, Stefan ^a   Silverman, Robert W ^a   Shao, Yiping ^a   Cherry, Simon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

CURRENT SENSITIVE PREAMPLIFIER; GAMMA RAY EMITTERS; GAMMA RAY IMAGING DETECTOR; IMAGING SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS; PREAMPLIFIER INPUT IMPEDANCE; SIMPLE CHARGE DIVISION READOUTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL POSITION ENCODING READOUTS;

READOUT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030164341     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507162     Document Type: Article

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