458 Chapter 7. Position Sensitive Detection and Imaging
Scintillation
Photon
Scintillation
Photon
Scintillation
Core
Optical
Cladding
Incident
Particle
Figure 7.3.5: Sketch of a typical
scintillation fiber.
shown orthogonal to each other. The spatial resolution of this system would depend
on the fiber to PMT channel mapping and PMT spatial resolution.
Fiber Bundles
PMT Optical Guide Optical Guide PMT
PMT
PMT
Optical Guide
Optical Guide
Figure 7.3.6: Conceptual de-
sign of an imaging system based
on scintillating fibers.