CMOS: Front-End Electronics for Radiation Sensors offers a comprehensive introduction to
integrated front-end electronics for radiation detectors, focusing on devices that capture …

The optimization of the input MOSFET for charge amplifiers in deep submicron technologies
is discussed. After a review of the traditional approach, the impact of properly modeling the …

The time over threshold (TOT) method has several advantages over direct pulse height
analysis based on analog to digital converters (ADCs). A key advantage is the simplicity of …

The highly multiplexed analog processing front-end of current Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) scanners yields high accuracy for timing but adds significant dead time …

Anesthesia is currently required for positron emission tomography (PET) studies of the
animal brain in order to eliminate motion artifacts. However, anesthesia profoundly affects …

There is a growing need to understand and combat potential radiation damage problems in
semiconductor devices and circuits. Assessing the billion-dollar market for detection …

An eight-channel readout ASIC has been developed for reading output signals from solid-
state photomultipliers for positron emission tomography applications. This ASIC converts …

The RatCAP has been designed and constructed to image the awake rat brain. In order to
maximize system performance, offline digital coincidence data processing algorithms …

We present the design for OpenPET, an electronics readout system designed for prototype
radiotracer imaging instruments. The critical requirements are that it has sufficient …

We are developing, at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, a small-animal
positron emission tomograph (PET) scanner that has two new features. Firstly, it uses …