Efficient readout electronics for multi-anode photomultiplier

Christoph W. Lerche; Vicente Herrero-Bosch; Nestor Ferrando-Jodar; Rafa Gadea-Girones; Filomeno Sanchez-Martinez; Francisco J. Mora-Más

doi:10.1117/12.862646

27 August 2010 Efficient readout electronics for multi-anode photomultiplier

Christoph W. Lerche, Vicente Herrero-Bosch, Nestor Ferrando-Jodar, Rafa Gadea-Girones, Filomeno Sanchez-Martinez, Francisco J. Mora-Más

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Proceedings Volume 7805, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII; 78050V (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.862646
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present a novel active and analog readout and preprocessing topology for position sensitive photodetectors (PSPD) that allows to readout a large variety of PSPD devices with different pixel numbers. Additionally, the topology was designed to allow for a significant reduction of analog-to-digital conversion channels. The circuit topology replaces the common passive charge divider and consists of N input stages, N × M weighting stages and M analog adder stages, where N is the number of the input channels, i.e. the number of photodetector pixels and M is the number of outputs. The circuit performs the multiplication of a matrix (the weights) with a vector (signals). For this, the input stage makes M copies of each of the N input signals, the weighting stage multiplies these signal copies with N × M different weights and the output stage adds all weighted copies with the same copy index. For high flexibility, the weights are programmable and the topology allows to interconnect several identical circuits for larger N. Measurements with a first prototype ASIC show that the achieved energy and centroid resolutions equal the resolutions from detectors with passive charge division circuits. However, the presented topology presents important advantages such as scalability. As a first application, we used the prototype ASIC to correct the sensitivity inhomogeneity of position sensitive photomultiplier tubes. As a second application for the circuit, we present a Neural Network based positioning scheme for γ-ray imaging detectors with thick, monolithic scintillation crystals. This allows to correct the strong border artifacts of the center of gravity positioning scheme in monolithic scintillation crystals and thus enhances the spatial resolution of the γ-ray imaging detector.

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Christoph W. Lerche, Vicente Herrero-Bosch, Nestor Ferrando-Jodar, Rafa Gadea-Girones, Filomeno Sanchez-Martinez, and Francisco J. Mora-Más "Efficient readout electronics for multi-anode photomultiplier", Proc. SPIE 7805, Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XII, 78050V (27 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.862646

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