3D photon-to-digital converter for radiation instrumentation: Motivation and future works

JF Pratte, F Nolet, S Parent, F Vachon, N Roy… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Analog and digital SiPMs have revolutionized the field of radiation instrumentation by
replacing both avalanche photodiodes and photomultiplier tubes in many applications …

CMOS time-to-digital converters for biomedical imaging applications

R Scott, W Jiang, MJ Deen - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are high-performance mixed-signal circuits capable of
timestamping events with sub-gate delay resolution. As a result of their high-performance, in …

Advances in digital SiPMs and their application in biomedical imaging

DR Schaart, E Charbon, T Frach, V Schulz - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Similar to analog silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), digital SiPMs (dSiPMs) essentially consist
of an array of single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs). Instead of a passive quench …

Front-end design for sipm-based monolithic neutron double scatter imagers

JW Cates, J Steele, J Balajthy, V Negut, P Hausladen… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neutron double scatter imaging exploits the kinematics of neutron elastic scattering to
enable emission imaging of neutron sources. Due to the relatively low coincidence detection …

Embedded time of arrival estimation for digital silicon photomultipliers with in-pixel TDCs

W Lemaire, F Nolet, F Dubois, AC Therrien… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Including precise time-of-flight measurements in the reconstruction of positron emission
tomography (PET) images reduces the required radiotracer dose, scan time and improves …

A 72-bin in-pixel mixed-signal TDC for SPAD-based fluorescence lifetime measurements

S Moreno, V Moro, A Dieguez - 2022 37th Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the first observation of fluorescence phenomena, a wide variety of fluorescence
measurement techniques have been developed for biomedical imaging. Therefore, low-cost …

Optimization of single photon avalanche diode array detectors with a custom simulator

AC Therrien, S Parent, MA Tétrault… - 2015 IEEE Nuclear …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are promising candidates for fast timing
applications in high energy physics (HEP) and positron emission tomography (PET) for their …

DESIGN OF A TIME-AMPLIFIED, STOCHASTIC PHASE INTERPOLATION TIME-TO-DIGITAL-CONVERTER FOR BIOMEDICAL IMAGING APPLICATIONS

C Liu - 2024 - macsphere.mcmaster.ca
Time-to-digital converters (TDC) and single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) can be
integrated together into SPAD-imagers. TDC is a mixed-signal circuit that can convert the …

Réalisation D'un Convertisseur Temps-numérique en CMOS 65 Nm Pour Une Intégration Par Pixel Dans Un Module de Comptage Monophotonique

N Roy, JF Pratte, R Fontaine - 2015 - library-archives.canada.ca
Les applications nécessitant une grande précision temporelle sont de plus en plus
nombreuses, notamment lorsqu'elles requièrent des mesures par temps de vol, c'est-à-dire …

A 15× 15 single photon avalanche diode sensor featuring breakdown pixels extraction architecture for efficient data readout

X Yang, H Zhu, T Nakura, T Iizuka… - Japanese Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper proposes a breakdown pixels extraction architecture for single photon avalanche
diode (SPAD) based faint light detection systems. The proposed extraction circuit detects the …