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Journal article

Detector block based on arrays of 144 SiPMs and monolithic scintillators: A performance study

  • 1. Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (I3M), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia – CSIC – CIEMAT (Spain)
  • 2. Communications and Digital Systems Design Group (DSDC), Universidad de Valencia (Spain)

Description

We have developed a detector block composed by a monolithic LYSO scintillator coupled to a custom made 12×12 SiPMs array. The design is mainly focused to applications such as Positron Emission Tomography. The readout electronics is based on 3 identical and scalable Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC). We have determined the main performance of the detector block namely spatial, energy, and time resolution but also the system capability to determine the photon depth of interaction, for different crystal surface treatments. Intrinsic detector spatial resolution values as good as 1.7 mm FWHM and energies of 15% for black painted crystals were measured

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.10.078

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2014.10.078;
PII
S0168-9002(14)01246-7;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
787
Journal Page Range
p. 42-45
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
International conference on new developments in photodetection
Acronym
NDIP14
Dates
30 Jun - 4 Jul 2014
Place
Tours (France)

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