An 8×16-pixel 92kSPAD time-resolved sensor with on-pixel 64ps 12b TDC and 100MS/s real-time energy histogramming in 0.13μm CIS technology for PET/MRI applications

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn 56, Issue , 2013, Pages 486-487

  Braga, Leo Huf Campos ^a   Gasparini, Leonardo ^a   Grant, Lindsay ^b   Henderson, Robert K ^c   Massari, Nicola ^a   Perenzoni, Matteo ^a   Stoppa, David ^a   Walker, Richard ^b  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; CIS TECHNOLOGIES; CLINICAL ONCOLOGY; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE (PMTS); SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SOLID STATE DETECTORS; TIME-RESOLVED SENSORS;

GAMMA RAYS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SENSORS;

EID: 84876567642     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2013.6487826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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