Characterization of Medipix3 with synchrotron radiation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1 PART 2, 2011, Pages 323-332

  Gimenez, Eva N ^a   Ballabriga, Rafael ^b   Campbell, Michael ^b   Horswell, Ian ^a   Llopart, Xavier ^b   Marchal, Julien ^a   Sawhney, Kawal J S ^a   Tartoni, Nicola ^a   Turecek, Daniel ^c  

^a DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Medipix3; synchrotron radiation; X ray detectors; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT PIXELS; ALLOCATION ALGORITHM; CHARGE SHARING EFFECTS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE; FRONT END ARCHITECTURE; LOW ENERGIES; MEDIPIX; MEDIPIX CHIP; MEDIPIX2; MEDIPIX3; METALLIZATIONS; OPERATING MODES; OPERATIONAL MODES; PHOTON COUNTING; READOUT CHIPS; SILICON PHOTODIODE; SINGLE PIXEL; WORK FOCUS; X-RAY DETECTOR; X-RAY IMAGING; XRAY IMAGING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT SOURCES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SENSORS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

PIXELS;

EID: 79951679553     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2089062     Document Type: Article

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