A 1MPixel fast CCD sensor for X-ray imaging

Author

Doering, Dionisio ; Andresen, Nord ; Contarato, Devis ; Denes, Peter ; Joseph, Jayaraj ; McVittie, Patrick ; Walder, Jean-Pierre ; Weizeorick, John

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

527

Lastpage

529

Abstract

This paper describes the performance of a 1MPixel Frame Store CCD sensor for soft X-ray applications at synchrotron light sources. This camera can be operated in frame store mode with a 1Mpixel imaging area running at 200fps, or in full frame mode with a 2M pixels imaging area running at 100fps. The CCD has 192 outputs that are serviced by custom-designed integrated circuits that perform correlated double-sampling signal processing and digitization. The digitized data is acquired by a custom made image acquisition and camera controller board based on the Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture system. Results obtained during a test run at the Advanced Light Source are presented demonstrating the X-ray camera performance.

Keywords

CCD image sensors; X-ray detection; charge-coupled device circuits; data acquisition; Advanced Light Source; Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture system; X-ray camera performance; camera controller board; custom-designed integrated circuits; digitized data; double-sampling digitization; double-sampling signal processing; frame store CCD sensor; frame store mode; image acquisition; imaging area; soft X-ray applications; synchrotron light sources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2028-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551163

Filename

6551163