Coincidence detection by digital processing of free-running sampled pulses
- Coincident events in two scintillator crystals coupled to photomultipliers (PMT) are detected by processing just the digital data of the recorded pulses. For this purpose the signals from both PMTs are continuously sampled by free-running ADCs at a sampling rate of 40 MHz. For each sampled pulse the starting time is determined by processing the pulse data. Even a fairly simple interpolating algorithm results in a FWHM of about 2 ns.
| Author: | M. Streun, G. Brandenburg, H. Larue, E. Zimmermann, Karl Ziemons, H. Halling |
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| ISBN: | 0168-9002 |
| Parent Title (English): | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2002 |
| Date of the Publication (Server): | 2013/01/29 |
| Volume: | 487 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 530 |
| Last Page: | 534 |
| Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-9002(02)00401-1 |
| Zugriffsart: | campus |
| Institutes: | FH Aachen / Fachbereich Medizintechnik und Technomathematik |
