A high-speed multi-channel readout for SSPM arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1 PART 1, 2012, Pages 13-18

  Janecek, Martin ^a   Walder, Jean Pierre ^a   McVittie, Patrick J ^a   Zheng, Bob ^a   Von Der Lippe, Henrik ^a   McClish, Mickel ^b   Dokhale, Purushottam ^b   Stapels, Christopher J ^b   Christian, James F ^b   Shah, Kanai S ^b   Moses, William W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger logic; ASIC; G APD; MPPC; MRS APD; Readout time; Resistor network; SIPM; SPM; SSPM

Indexed keywords

ANGER LOGIC; G-APD; MPPC; MRS-APD; READOUT TIME; RESISTOR NETWORK; SIPM; SPM; SSPM;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CAPACITANCE; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESISTORS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 84857372049     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2176142     Document Type: Article

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