Developments of a new 1-dimensional γ-ray position sensor using scintillators coupled to a Si strip detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2983-2990

  Itoh, Takeshi ^a   Kokubun, Motohide ^a   Takashima, Takeshi ^c   Honda, Tsuneo ^d   Makishima, Kazuo ^a,b   Tanaka, Takaaki ^c   Yanagida, Takayuki ^a   Hirakuri, Shinya ^a   Miyawaki, Ryohei ^a   Takahashi, Hiromitsu ^a   Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^c   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Ohyo Koken Kogyo Company Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inorganic scintillator; Silicon strip detector; X ray astronomy detectors; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; PHOSPHORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON SENSORS; TRANSPARENCY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; SILICON STRIP DETECTORS (SSD); X-RAY ASTRONOMY DETECTORS; X-RAY IMAGING;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33750416039     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.879760     Document Type: Article

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