TY - BOOK AU - Iniewski, Krzystof TI - Electronics for radiation detection SN - 9780367269647 U1 - 539.77 INI-K PY - 2011/// CY - USA PB - CRC Press KW - Nuclear counters--Design and construction KW - Nuclear medicine--Equipment and supplies KW - Radioactivity--Measurement KW - Electronic instruments--Design and construction KW - Physics KW - Science KW - Electrical engineering KW - Engineering N1 - Analog Electronics for Radiation Detection showcases the latest advances in readout electronics for particle, or radiation, detectors. Featuring chapters written by international experts in their respective fields, this authoritative text: Defines the main design parameters of front-end circuitry developed in microelectronics technologies Explains the basis for the use of complementary metal–oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for the detection of charged particles and other non-consumer applications Delivers an in-depth review of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), evaluating the pros and cons of ADCs integrated at the pixel, column, and per-chip levels Describes incremental sigma–delta ADCs, time-to-digital converter (TDC) architectures, and digital pulse-processing techniques complementary to analog processing Examines the fundamental parameters and front-end types associated with silicon photomultipliers used for single visible-light photon detection Discusses pixel sensors with per-pixel TDCs, channel density challenges, and emerging 3D technologies interconnecting detectors and electronics Thus, Analog Electronics for Radiation Detection provides a single source for state-of-the-art information on analog electronics for the readout of radiation detectors ER -