A fast, programmable, stand-alone pulse generator emulating spectroscopy nuclear events

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2465-2476

  Impériale, Cosimo ^a  

^a Pacific Western University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NUCLEAR RADIATION SPECTROSCOPY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SENSITIVE PREAMPLIFIER; SPECTROSCOPY SIGNAL;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0030258698     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.539394     Document Type: Article

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