Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Universal readout for silicon photomultiplier based detectors
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Application No.: US15228300Application Date: 2016-08-04
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Publication No.: US09945965B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Geng Fu , Adrian Ivan , Jianjun Guo , Hao Lai , Hua Qian , Xiao Jin
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady
- Agent Pabitra K. Chakrabarti
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20 ; G01T1/24

Abstract:
A SiPM readout circuit includes a front-end circuit having amplifiers coupled to SiPM analog outputs, pixel readout channels coupled to amplifiers provide a timing signal representing gamma ray photon detection in individual SiPM, a block timing channel that creates a summed signal from all SiPMs, and generates a block timing signal and a validation signal, an energy channel that generates a summed energy signal and a two-dimensional position of the gamma ray photon detection in the block, and a control logic/processing circuit that performs a time stamp estimation method. Methods of determining the radiation event timing and a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer-readable instructions to implement the methods are disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180038966A1 UNIVERSAL READOUT FOR SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER BASED DETECTORS Public/Granted day:2018-02-08
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