High resolution photon counting with MCP-timepix quad parallel readout operating at > 1 KHz frame rates

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 578-585

  Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Vallerga, John V ^a   McPhate, Jason B ^a   Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a   Raffanti, Rick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Techne Instruments   (United States)

Author keywords

High count rate; High resolution imaging; Photon detection; Readout electronics

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-COUNT RATE; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; MICRO CHANNEL PLATE; PHOTON DETECTION; READOUT ELECTRONICS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TIME OF FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS;

DETECTORS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; READOUT SYSTEMS;

IMAGE STORAGE TUBES;

EID: 84876296499     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2223714     Document Type: Article

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