Measurements of matching and high count rate performance of multichannel ASIC for digital X-ray imaging systems

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1207-1215

  Grybos, Pawel ^a,b   Maj, Piotr ^b   Ramello, Luciano ^c   Swientek, Krzysztof ^b  

^a IEEE

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Charge sensitive amplifier; Count rate; Matching

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CHARGE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIER; HIGH COUNT RATE; MATCHING;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 34548076263     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.903176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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