Multi-level time-over-threshold method for energy resolving multi-channel systems

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 5 PART 1, 2010, Pages 2545-2548

  Fujiwara, Takeshi ^a   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Shimazoe, Kenji ^a   Shi, Boxuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multi channel systems; time over threshold

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; GAUSSIAN FILTERS; INTEGRAL NONLINEARITY; MULTI-LEVEL; MULTICHANNEL SYSTEM; SHAPING FILTERS; TIME OVER THRESHOLDS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 79953826655     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2061236     Document Type: Article

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