Performance Measurements of the SAFIR Prototype Detector With the STiC ASIC Readout

IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 250-258

  Ahnen, Max ^a   Becker, Robert ^a   Buck, Alfred ^b   Casella, Chiara ^a   Commichau, Volker ^a   Di Calafiori, Diogo ^a   Dissertori, Günther ^a   Eleftheriou, Afroditi ^b   Fischer, Jannis ^a   Howard, Alexander S ^a   Ito, Mikiko ^a   Khateri, Parisa ^a   Kim, Jisoo ^c   Lustermann, Werner ^a   Ritzer, Christian ^a   Röser, Ulf ^a   Rudin, Markus ^a   Solevi, Paola ^d   Tsoumpas, Charalampos ^e   Warnock, Geoffrey ^b   Weber, Bruno ^b   Wyss, Matthias ^b   Zagozdzinska Bochenek, Agnieszka ^a   more..

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Performance; photodetector technology; SiPM; SiPM timing chip (STiC) application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); small animal fast insert for mRi (SAFIR)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TIMING CIRCUITS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

LUTETIUM YTTRIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SCANNER; NONLINEARITY CORRECTION; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SIPM; SMALL ANIMAL;

TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 85074263197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24697311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRPMS.2018.2797484     Document Type: Article

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