Pixel-level analog-to-digital converters for hybrid pixel detectors with energy sensitivity

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  San Segundo Bello, David ^a,b   Nauta, Bram ^b   Visschers, Jan ^a  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAYS;

HYBRID PIXEL DETECTORS; READOUT ELECTRONICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

EID: 0034593605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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