Method and apparatus for analog pulse pile-up rejection

De Geronimo, Gianluigi

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Title: Method and apparatus for analog pulse pile-up rejection

Abstract

A method and apparatus for pulse pile-up rejection are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a delay value application constituent configured to receive a threshold-crossing time value, and provide an adjustable value according to a delay value and the threshold-crossing time value; and a comparison constituent configured to receive a peak-occurrence time value and the adjustable value, compare the peak-occurrence time value with the adjustable value, indicate pulse acceptance if the peak-occurrence time value is less than or equal to the adjustable value, and indicate pulse rejection if the peak-occurrence time value is greater than the adjustable value.

Inventors:: De Geronimo, Gianluigi

Issue Date:: 2013-12-31

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1113234

Patent Number(s):: 8618495

Application Number:: 13/098,949

Assignee:: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, NY)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION

H - ELECTRICITY H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY H03K - PULSE TECHNIQUE

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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
G01T1/171 - {Compensation of dead-time counting losses

H - ELECTRICITY H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY H03K - PULSE TECHNIQUE
H03K5/1532 - Peak detectors

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DOE Contract Number:: ACO2-98CH10886

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION

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Pile-up corrections for high-precision superallowed decay half-life measurements via -ray photopeak counting journal, September 2007

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Pileup Rejection in an Energy-Dispersive Radiation Spectrometry System
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Pile Up Rejection and Multiple Simultaneous Events Acquisition with the PDD ASIC
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Portable instrument for measuring neutron energy spectra and neutron dose in a mixed n-.gamma. field
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Application of a digital pileup resolving method to high count rate neutron measurements
journal, October 2008

An investigation of methods of pileup rejection for 2-D array detectors employed in high resolution PET
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Elimination of pulse pileup distortion in nuclear radiation spectra
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