Timing performance comparison of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers

Ruud Vinke, Jung Yeol Yeom, Massimo Mazzillo, D. Sanfilippo, A. Piana, Craig S. Levin

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Abstract

We have investigated the timing performance of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) in light of their use in time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) detectors. Polished 3 mm × 3 mm × 5 mm and 3 mm × 3 mm × 20 mm LYSO:Ce scintillators were coupled to STmicroelectronics P-on-N and N-on-P SiPMs. The SiPMs were read out with low-noise RF transimpedance amplifiers and fed to a waveform digitizer for offline time pickoff analysis. For the P-on-N devices coincidence resolving times (CRTs) of 234 ps and 189 ps FWHM were obtained with the 3 mm × 3 mm × 20 mm and 3 mm × 3 mm × 5 mm crystals, respectively. For the N-on-P devices CRTs of 280 ps and 214 ps FWHM, respectively, were obtained with above crystal types. The P-on-N devices are promising for TOF-PET due to their high photon detection efficiency (PDE) and low transit time spread (TTS).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012
Pages2128-2130
Number of pages3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012 - Anaheim, CA, United States
Duration: 2012 Oct 292012 Nov 3

Publication series

NameIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
ISSN (Print)1095-7863

Other

Other2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim, CA
Period12/10/2912/11/3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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