Main description:

This book gives the reader a good overview of some of most recent advances in the field of analogue electronics for radiation detectors. It contains an in-depth review of the topic of noise and signal processing, with two chapters from leading world specialists in the field. The book is an excellent reference for people already working in the field as well as for people wishing to enter it.

Contents:

High resolution photon/neutron/electron/ion counting detectors with Microchannel Plates. Digital Pulse Processing Techniques for X-Ray and Gamma Ray Semiconductor Detectors. Medipix Readout Schemes. Silicon Photomultipliers for High. Performance Scintillation Crystal Readout Applications. CdTe/CZT spectrometers with 3D imaging capabilities. Vertically Integrated Photon Imaging Chips. Charge amplification and filtering in CMOS for radiation (or semiconductor) detector. CMOS Transient Waveform Digitizers. Signal formation, noise mechanisms and noise filtering in radiation detectors. Incremental Sigma Delta ADCs for low-noise, high-speed imaging. Column-parallel ADC for image sensors. CMOS image sensors for radiation detection.