Tiled Silicon Photomultipliers for large area, low light sensing applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6471, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hughes, P J ^a   Herbert, D ^a   Stewart, A ^a   Jackson, J C ^a  

^a ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Large area detector arrays; Multi anode PMT; Silicon photomultiplier

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT SOURCES; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIATION DETECTORS; SILICON;

LARGE AREA DETECTOR ARRAYS; MAGNETIC INSENSITIVITY; MULTI-ANODE PMT; RADIATION DETECTION; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 34248646784     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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