Nuclear spectroscopy pulse height analysis based on digital signal processing techniques
- Univ. of Coimbra (Portugal). Physics Dept.
A digital approach to pulse height analysis is presented. It consists of entire pulse digitization, using a flash analog-to-digital converter (ADC), being its height estimated by a floating point digital signal processor (DSP) as one parameter of a model best fitting to the pulse samples. The differential nonlinearity (DNL) is reduced by simultaneously adding to the pulse, prior to its digitization, two analog signals provided by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). One of them is a small amplitude dither signal used to eliminate a bias introduced by the fitting algorithm. The other, with large amplitude, corrects the ADC nonlinearities by a method similar to the well known Gatti`s sliding scale. The simulations carried out showed that, using a 12-bit flash ADC, a 14-bit DAC and a dedicated floating point DSP performing a polynomial fitting to the samples around the pulse peak, it is actually possible to process about 10,000 events per second, with a constant height pulse dispersion of only 4 on 8,192 channels and a very good differential linearity. A prototype system based on the Texas Instruments floating point DSP TMS320C31 and built following the presented methodology has already been tested and performed as expected.
- OSTI ID:
- 136889
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941061-; ISSN 0018-9499; TRN: 96:000991
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 42, Issue 4Pt1; Conference: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Norfolk, VA (United States), 30 Oct - 5 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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