A high-counting-rate readout system for X-ray applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1840-1847

  Zervakis, Emmanuel ^a,b   Papananos, Yannis ^b   Loukas, Dimitris ^a   Haralabidis, Nikos ^c   Pavlidis, Arximidis ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Athena Semiconductors SA   (Greece)

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Indexed keywords

PHOTODIODE ARRAYS; PHOTON TRANSMISSION; SOLID STATE SENSORS; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAYS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 4444351227     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.832646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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