Sub-10 ps monolithic and low-power photodetector readout

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

Volumn 602, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 438-445

  Ruckman, L L ^a   Varner, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast; Picosecond timing; Time of flight readout; Time resolved PET

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; NEGATIVE IONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; TIME MEASUREMENT; TRANSIT TIME DEVICES;

COST ADVANTAGES; FAST; HIGH DENSITIES; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; IMAGING ARRAYS; LOW-POWER; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATIONS; PHOTON DETECTORS; PICOSECOND TIMING; POSITRON EMISSIONS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT READOUT; TIME-RESOLVED PET; TRANSIT-TIME; WAVE FORMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 63149135470     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.01.217     Document Type: Article

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