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 …

DOI estimation through signal arrival time distribution: a theoretical description including proof of concept measurements

F Loignon-Houle, S Gundacker… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The challenge to reach 10 ps coincidence time resolution (CTR) in time-of-flight positron
emission tomography (TOF-PET) is triggering major efforts worldwide, but timing …

A 256 Pixelated SPAD readout ASIC with in-Pixel TDC and embedded digital signal processing for uniformity and skew correction

F Nolet, W Lemaire, F Dubois, N Roy, S Carrier… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coincidence timing resolution (CTR) of 10 ps FWHM would drastically increase the contrast
of images in pre-clinical and clinical positron emission tomography (PET) due to the …

Experimental validation of a coincidence time resolution metric including depth-of-interaction bias for TOF-PET

F Loignon-Houle, M Toussaint, MS Lee… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Depth-of-interaction (DOI) variability of annihilation photons is known to be a source
of coincidence time resolution (CTR) degradation for fast time-of-flight–positron emission …

Emphasizing Cherenkov Photons From Bismuth Germanate by Single Photon Response Deconvolution

R Ota, K Ote - IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bismuth germanate (BGO) has been receiving attention again because it is a potential
scintillator for future time-of-flight positron emission tomography. Owing to its optical …

Emphasizing Cherenkov photons from bismuth germanate by single photon deconvolution

R Ota, K Ote - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04432, 2023 - arxiv.org
Bismuth germanate (BGO) has been receiving attention again because it is a potential
scintillator for future time-of-flight positron emission tomography. Owing to its optical …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility study of multiplexing method using digital signal encoding technique

KB Kim, HT Leem, YH Chung, HB Shin - Nuclear Engineering and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Radiation imaging systems consisting of a large number of channels greatly benefit from
multiplexing methods to reduce the number of channels with minimizing the system …

[PDF][PDF] Électronique d'un convertisseur photon-numérique 3D pour une résolution temporelle de 10 ps FWHM.

F Nolet - 2020 - savoirs.usherbrooke.ca
Les technologies utilisant la détection monophotonique sont de plus en plus présentes dans
nos vies. De nombreuses applications nécessitent un photodétecteur possédant une haute …