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In recent years, computational Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging has emerged as an exciting and a novel imaging modality that offers new and powerful interpretations of natural scenes, with applications extending to 3D, light-in-flight, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ruiming Guo , Ayush Bhandari

Acoustic pyrometry is a non-contact measurement technology for monitoring furnace combustion reaction, diagnosing energy loss due to incomplete combustion and ensuring safe production. The accuracy of time of flight (TOF) estimation of an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-25 Qi Liu , Bin Zhou , Jianyong Zhang , Ruixue Cheng

State-of-the-art time-of-flight (ToF) based 3D sensors suffer from poor lateral and depth resolutions. In this work, we introduce a novel sensor concept that provides ToF-based 3D measurements of real world objects with depth precisions up…

We present a compact FPGA-based pulse sequencer and radio-frequency (RF) generator suitable for experiments with cold trapped ions and atoms. The unit is capable of outputting a pulse sequence with at least 32 TTL channels with a timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-16 Thaned Pruttivarasin , Hidetoshi Katori

The T2K ND280 upgrade aims to reduce the systematic uncertainty of the CP-violating phase, $\delta_{CP}$, to reject non-CP violation hypothesis at $3\sigma$ confidence level. A crucial component of the ND280 upgrade, alongside the Super…

A novel approach to tomographic data processing has been developed and evaluated using the Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) scanner as an example. We propose a system in which there is no need for powerful, local to the scanner processing facility,…

This work reports a cost-effective, simple front-end readout and DAQ of a RPC-based muon scattering tomography system under construction. The Time-over-threshold property of NINO ASICs has been exploited to achieve precise tracking by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-01 Sridhar Tripathy , Subhendu Das , Jaydeep Datta , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay

Time-digital Converter (TDC) aims to measure the arrival time of the leading edge of the pulse signal. Our recent work presented a high resolution multi-phase TDC based on the Kintex-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. A simple…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Xue Dong , Cong Ma , Xiaokun Zhao , Xing Li , Zhenqiang Huang

Benchmarking and characterising quantum states and logic gates is essential in the development of devices for quantum computing. We introduce a Bayesian approach to self-consistent process tomography, called fast Bayesian tomography (FBT),…

We present the design of a new $\mu$TCA-based waveform digitizer, which will be deployed in the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab and will allow our pileup identification requirement to be met. This digitizer features five independent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 David A. Sweigart

Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are used in various fields, including high-energy physics. One advantage of implementing TDCs in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the flexibility on the modification of the logics, which is useful…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-29 Yuta Sano , Yasuyuki Horii , Masahiro Ikeno , Osamu Sasaki , Makoto Tomoto , Tomohisa Uchida

The ClearMind project aims to develop the TOF-PET position sensitive detection module optimized for the time resolution, spatial resolution, and detection efficiency. For this, the ClearMind project uses a large (59 $\times$ 59 mm$^2$)…

This study focuses on developing a self-triggered data acquisition system and a noise reduction algorithm for the Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOF-PET) system. The system integrates a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-13 Jianing Liu , Yuelei Ma , Ziyang Chen , Zhenyan Li , Yi Wang , Baohong Guo , Dong Han , Yuanjing Li

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are major components for the measurements of time intervals. Recent developments in Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) have enabled the opportunity to implement high-performance TDCs, which were only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yuanyuan Hua , Danial Chitnis

We are currently conceiving, through (MC) simulation, a multi-channel gamma detector array (TIARA for Time-of-flight Imaging ARrAy) for the online monitoring of protontherapy treatments. By measuring the Time-Of-Flight (TOF) between a beam…

The small time gap of synchrotron radiation in conventional multi-bunch mode (100-500MHz) is prohibitive for time-of-flight (ToF) based electron spectroscopy. Even the new generation of delay-line detectors with improved time resolution…

A simplified digital spectrometer for the study of $\gamma$-rays with energies up to $\sim100$ MeV is presented and tested. The spectrometer is only consisted of a fast digital oscilloscope and three scintillation detectors which can work…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 S. S. Markochev , N. V. Eremin

All of the present methods for calibration and monitoring of TOF-PET scanner detectors utilize radioactive isotopes such as e.g. $^{22}$Na or $^{68}$Ge, which are placed or rotate inside the scanner. In this article we describe a novel…

The need for wireless communication has driven the communication systems to high performance. However, the main bottleneck that affects the communication capability is the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), which is the core of most modulators.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-13 Yazan Samir Algnabi , Rozita Teymourzadeh , Masuri Othman , Md Shabiul Islam

A laser calibration system was developed for monitoring and calibrating time of flight (TOF) scintillating detector arrays. The system includes setups for both small- and large-scale scintillator arrays. Following test-bench…