A portable system has been developed for the control and the readout of a 64 × 64 pixel silicon hybrid detector (1.1 × 1.1 cm2 active area), bump-bonded to the Medipix1 readout chip. This system, originally designed for biomedical imaging applications, is based on a standard commercial digital I/O board and a compact dedicated interface (p-MUROS), connected to a portable (or desktop) PC. The Medipix1 chip is hosted in a removable chip carrier directly placed on the p-MUROS board. This board is a simplified version of the MUROS1 readout board already developed in the framework of the Medipix collaboration. A user-friendly software system (Medisoft 3.3) has been written to provide control of the system and image acquisition, display, and processing. This complete hardware/software imaging system has been used with or without high-resolution collimators, with laboratory α, β, and γ sources for test purposes, and represents the portable version of the desktop imaging system developed for β-autoradiography. The system description and complete imaging tests are presented.

Portable system for imaging of α, and X-ray sources with silicon pixel detectors and Medipix1 readout / Bertolucci, Ennio; T., Boerkamp; M., Maiorino; Mettivier, Giovanni; Montesi, MARIA CRISTINA; Russo, Paolo. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE. - ISSN 0018-9499. - 49:4(2002), pp. 1845-1850. [10.1109/TNS.2002.801661]

Portable system for imaging of α, and X-ray sources with silicon pixel detectors and Medipix1 readout

BERTOLUCCI, ENNIO;METTIVIER, GIOVANNI;MONTESI, MARIA CRISTINA;RUSSO, PAOLO
2002

Abstract

A portable system has been developed for the control and the readout of a 64 × 64 pixel silicon hybrid detector (1.1 × 1.1 cm2 active area), bump-bonded to the Medipix1 readout chip. This system, originally designed for biomedical imaging applications, is based on a standard commercial digital I/O board and a compact dedicated interface (p-MUROS), connected to a portable (or desktop) PC. The Medipix1 chip is hosted in a removable chip carrier directly placed on the p-MUROS board. This board is a simplified version of the MUROS1 readout board already developed in the framework of the Medipix collaboration. A user-friendly software system (Medisoft 3.3) has been written to provide control of the system and image acquisition, display, and processing. This complete hardware/software imaging system has been used with or without high-resolution collimators, with laboratory α, β, and γ sources for test purposes, and represents the portable version of the desktop imaging system developed for β-autoradiography. The system description and complete imaging tests are presented.
2002
Portable system for imaging of α, and X-ray sources with silicon pixel detectors and Medipix1 readout / Bertolucci, Ennio; T., Boerkamp; M., Maiorino; Mettivier, Giovanni; Montesi, MARIA CRISTINA; Russo, Paolo. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE. - ISSN 0018-9499. - 49:4(2002), pp. 1845-1850. [10.1109/TNS.2002.801661]
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