2011/01/13 by F. Barbosa, Fernando Barbosa, H. Dong +32
Environmental Science · Health Professions · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies #Radioactive contamination and transfer #Radioactivity and Radon Measurements #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1101.2676
Presented at 2010 IEEE NSS/MIC Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, October 30 - November 6, 2010
arxiv created 2011/01/13 · openalex publication_date 2011/01/13 · arxiv updated 2011/01/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A mini-PET style detector system is being developed for a plant imaging application with a compact array of silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) replacing position sensitive photomultipliers (PSPMT). In addition to compactness, the use of SiPMs will allow imaging setups involving high strength MRI-type magnetic fields. The latter will allow for better position resolution of the initial positron annihilations in the plant tissue. In the present work, prototype arrays are tested for the uniformity of their response as it is known that PSPMTs require significant gain compensation on the individual channels to achieve an improved uniformity in response. The initial tests indicate a high likelihood that the SiPM arrays can be used without any gain compensation.