Large area microchannel plate detector with amorphous silicon pixel array readout for fast neutron radiography

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 500, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 351-361

  Ambrosi, Richard M ^a   Fraser, George W ^a   Feller, Bruce ^b   Street, Robert ^c   Watterson, John I W ^d   White, Paul ^b   Downing, Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NOVA Scientific Inc   (United States)

^c PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Amorphous; CCD; Microchannel plate; Neutron; Radiography; Scintillators; Silicon

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSIVES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PHOSPHORS;

MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTORS;

READOUT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038113069     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)00297-3     Document Type: Article

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