Patent ID: 6211664
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: G01T

Abstract:
Device for measuring the rise time of the electronic component of a signal disturbed by electronic noise, obtained at the output of a semiconductor detector, in response to the interaction of a photon with the semiconductor material of the detector, characterized in that it comprises:a differentiating circuit (C11, C12) having in combination at least one resistor (r) and one capacitor (c) for implementing a high pass filter for filtering the low frequency background noise from the signal obtained from the detector anda discriminating circuit (C21, C22) incorporating a comparator (k) for performing a comparison between the filtered signal from the differentiating circuit and an offset voltage chosen as a function of the noise level interfering with the signal from the detector wherein the output of the comparator (k) comprises a voltage signal Vs exhibiting a rising front and a falling front corresponding, respectively, to rise start and end times of an electronic component of the signal from said detector, the voltage signal Vs thereby providing an indication of the migration time of electrons in said detector.