Comparison of multi-pole shaping and delay line clipping pre-amplifiers for position sensitive nal(tl) detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1138-1143

  Freifelder, R ^a   Karp, J S ^a   Wear, J A ^a   Lockyert, M S ^a   Newcomert, P M ^a   Surtit, S ^a   Van Bergt, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; READOUT SYSTEMS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

DELAY CLIPPLING LINE TECHNIQUE; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS; PREAMPLIFIERS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0032096155     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.681992     Document Type: Article

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