Lower bounds on scintillation detector timing performance
dc.contributor.author | Clinthorne, Neal H. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hero, III, Alfred O. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Petrick, Nicholas A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Rogers, W. Leslie | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-10T13:31:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-10T13:31:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1990-12-20 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Clinthorne, Neal H., Hero, III, Alfred O., Petrick, Nicholas A., Rogers, W. Leslie (1990/12/20)."Lower bounds on scintillation detector timing performance." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 299(1-3): 157-161. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28261> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TJM-473FK6F-K8/2/24c5fa39d60a6a2573ca67a8673fda59 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/28261 | |
dc.description.abstract | Fundamental method-independent limits on the timing performance of scintillation detectors are useful for identifying regimes in which either present timing methods are nearly optimal or where a considerable performance gain might be realized using better pulse processing techniques. Several types of lower bounds on mean-squared timing error (MSE) performance have been developed and applied to scintillation detectors. The simple Cramer-Rao (CR) bound can be useful in determining the limiting MSE for scintillators having a relatively high rate of photon production such as BaF2 and NaI(Tl); however, it tends to overestimate the achievable performance for scintillators with lower rates such as BGO. For this reason, alternative bounds have been developed using rate-distortion theory [1,2] or by assuming that the conversion of energy to scintillation light must pass through excited states which have exponential lifetime densities [3]. The bounds are functions of the mean scintillation pulse shape, the scintillation intensity, and photodetector characteristics; they are simple to evaluate and can be used to conveniently assess the limiting timing performance of scintillation detectors. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Lower bounds on scintillation detector timing performance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0552, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0552, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0552, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0552, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/28261/1/0000006.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(90)90767-Z | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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