基于反馈调节的闪烁脉冲稀疏量化电平方法

PET探测器采用SQL采样电路对闪烁脉冲进行处理,可固定量化电平。零点噪声引起的电平翻转导致电压比较器长时间非正常发热,无法设置较低的量化电平,限制了探测器符合时间分辨率的提高。文中提出一种基于反馈调节的闪烁脉冲处理方法,该方法通过使用三极管饱和状态下的开关特性,对SQL量化样本进行反馈调节。利用延迟元件对量化样本进行延迟同步,产生可以随样本逻辑电平变化的量化电平,避免了零点噪声对SQL采样电路的影响。实验结果表明,在相等时间内,优化的SQL采样电路的采样量比原SQL采样电路的采样量减少了29%,符合时间分辨率提升了179.3 ps,有效减少了PET探测器无用功耗,提高了PET系统的符合时间分辨率。

Calibration of Activation Counter by a 2.48 kJ Plasma Focus Device

In many experiments, plastic scintillators are used as a counter instead of Geiger Muller counter, because they are so fast and they are used for pulsed neutron sources. So a silver activation counter has been constructed by plastic scintillator plates along with silver foils for determination the neutron yield of a 2.48 kJ plasma focus device, SBUPF1. This counter was calibrated by source removal method with an Am-Be 5 Ci neutron source which was placed above the anode of plasma focus device. Deuterium gas up to 8 mbar pressure was injected to this device, and the neutron yield produced by pulsed D-D fusion of plasma focus device was measured by the counter. The neutron yield of SBUPF1 in 8 mbar pressure was obtained （3.71± 0.32）×10^7 neutrons per shot. This result has relatively agreed with the neutron yield measured by silver activation Geiger counters.