Time based readout of a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) for Time of Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET)

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1212-1219

  Jarron, P ^a   Auffray, E ^a   Brunner, S E ^a   Despeisse, M ^c   Garutti, E ^d   Goettlich, M ^d   Hillemanns, H ^a   Lecoq, P ^a   Meyer, T ^a   Powolny, F ^a   Shen, W ^e   Schultz Coulon, H C ^e   Williams, M C S ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d DESY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER INPUTS; DIFFERENTIAL CURRENT; DIFFERENTIAL TECHNIQUE; ENERGY INFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRONT-END CIRCUITS; INPUT RESISTANCE; LEADING EDGE; LSO CRYSTALS; MONTE CARLO; OUTPUT SIGNAL; POISSON STATISTIC; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SPICE SIMULATIONS; TIME INFORMATION; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS; TIMING PERFORMANCE; TRAILING EDGES;

JITTER; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITION CONTROL; POSITRONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951175253     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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