[PDF][PDF] Review of hybrid pixel detector readout ASICs for spectroscopic X-ray imaging

R Ballabriga, J Alozy, M Campbell, E Frojdh… - Journal of …, 2016 - core.ac.uk
Today most of the deployed X-ray detection equipment for medical diagnosis and industrial
nondestructive testing are based on energy integrating detector technology. When using …

[HTML][HTML] The Timepix4 analog front-end design: Lessons learnt on fundamental limits to noise and time resolution in highly segmented hybrid pixel detectors

R Ballabriga, JA Alozy, FN Bandi, G Blaj… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This manuscript describes the optimization of the front-end readout electronics for high
granularity hybrid pixel detectors. The theoretical study aims at minimizing the noise and …

CZT sensors for Computed Tomography: From crystal growth to image quality

K Iniewski - Journal of Instrumentation, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recent advances in Traveling Heater Method (THM) growth and device fabrication
that require additional processing steps have enabled to dramatically improve hole transport …

32k Channel Readout IC for Single Photon Counting Pixel Detectors with Pitch, Dead Time of 85 ns, Offset Spread and 2% rms Gain Spread

P Grybos, P Kmon, P Maj… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a readout integrated circuit called UFXC32k, designed for hybrid pixel
semiconductor detectors used in X-ray imaging applications. The UFXC32k integrated …

Multi‐energy inter‐pixel coincidence counters for charge sharing correction and compensation in photon counting detectors

K Taguchi - Medical physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Smaller pixel sizes of x‐ray photon counting detectors (PCDs) are advantageous
for count rate capabilities but disadvantageous for charge sharing. With charge sharing, the …

Characterization of the acquisition modes implemented in Pixirad-1/Pixie-III X-ray Detector: Effects of charge sharing correction on spectral resolution and image …

V Di Trapani, A Bravin, F Brun, D Dreossi… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract X-ray Photon Counting Detectors (XPCDs) with thick semiconductor sensors and
small pixel sizes suffer from a charge-sharing effect which can induce multiple counts from a …

Single Photon-Counting Pixel Readout Chip Operating Up to 1.2 Gcps/mm2 for Digital X-Ray Imaging Systems

R Kleczek, P Grybos, R Szczygiel… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design of a PXF40-an ultrafast single photon-counting (SPC)
readout front-end electronics implemented in a CMOS 40-nm technology dedicated to hybrid …

Characterization of the photon counting CHASE Jr., chip built in a 40-nm CMOS process with a charge sharing correction algorithm using a collimated X-ray beam

A Krzyżanowska, GW Deptuch, P Maj… - … on Nuclear Science, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the detailed characterization of a single photon counting chip, named
CHASE Jr., built in a CMOS 40-nm process, operating with synchrotron radiation. The chip …

Assessment of multi‐energy inter‐pixel coincidence counters for photon‐counting detectors at the presence of charge sharing and pulse pileup: a simulation study

K Taguchi, JS Iwanczyk - Medical physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Spectral distortion due to charge sharing (CS) and pulse pileup (PP) in photon‐
counting detectors (PCDs) degrades the quality of PCD data. We recently proposed multi …

Active feedback with leakage current compensation for charge sensitive amplifier used in hybrid pixel detector

P Kmon, G Deptuch, F Fahim, P Grybos… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the design of an active feedback circuit for charge sensitive amplifiers used for
reading out hybrid pixel detectors. The predominant advantages of the proposed feedback …