Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection

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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.
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