Patent ID: 8258483

Claim:
A particle detection system, comprising: a plurality of optical fibers having first ends and second ends opposite the first ends, the optical fibers comprising doped regions at the first ends and non-doped regions adjacent to the doped regions, the doped regions of the optical fibers comprising a dopant having a dopant depth, the dopant and dopant depth being selected to scintillate upon interaction with a single target particle type, and to thereby generate one or more photons, the optical fibers being further arranged to form a detection surface for detecting a spatial location on the detection surface where the single target particle type is detected; and a pixelated photomultiplier communicatively coupled to the plurality of optical fibers, the pixelated photomultiplier being configured to produce an electrical signal in response to the one or more photons indicative of the spatial location on the detection surface where the single target particle type is detected.