A simple low-cost flow-through light-scattering detector was developed for determining the particle mass concentration in colloidal suspensions. Employing a laser pointer as a light source and a photodiode IC as a light sensor, the detector was shown to have good sensitivity, yet was small and battery operated. The detector was demonstrated to be effective for the flow-injection nephelometric d...

BGO is expected to be plausible devices for soft gamma-ray detectors, because of a high detection efficiency for soft gamma-rays. Here we report on the good performance of BGO readout with PIN-photodiode or avalanche photodiode as a soft gamma-ray detector. We confirmed that the signal output of BGO becomes comparable to that of GSO when it is readout with photodiodes due to better matching bet...

A method was developed for determining residual sulfonamide antibacterials such as sulfamethazine (SMZ), sulfamonomethoxine (SMM), sulfadimethoxine (SDM), and sulfaquinoxaline (SQ) in eggs using liquid chromatography with a photodiode array detector. The spiked and blank samples were cleaned up by using an Ultrafree-MC/PL centrifugal ultrafiltration unit. A Mightysil RP-4 GP column and a mobile...

Introduction: Radiation imaging is one of the applicable methods in diagnostic medicine and nondestructive testing for industrial applications. In nondestructive 3D imaging, in addition to the radiation source, there is a requirement for a suitable detection system, data acquisition system, mechanical sections for moving objects, reconstruction algorithm and finally a computer for processing an...

UNLABELLED PET and MRI are powerful imaging techniques that are largely complementary in the information they provide. We have designed and built a MR-compatible PET scanner based on avalanche photodiode technology that allows simultaneous acquisition of PET and MR images in small animals. METHODS The PET scanner insert uses magnetic field-insensitive, position-sensitive avalanche photodiode ...

The initial KATRIN Detector prototype is a Hamamatsu S3204-09 window-less Si PIN photodiode. The KATRIN experiment is designed to analyze tritium beta decay and, from that analysis, measure the mass of the neutrino with an upper limit of 0.2 eV. To achieve this sensitivity the background must be extremely low and noise reduction is imperative. Determining the dead layer of the prototype detecto...

Performance characteristics of the response of a Peltier-cooled large-area avalanche photodiode are investigated. Detector gain, energy linearity, energy resolution and minimum detectable energy are studied at different operation temperatures. Detector energy resolution and lowest detectable X-ray energy present a strong improvement as the operation temperature is reduced from 25 to 15 C and sl...

An ultrafast GaAs Schottky photodiode is monolithically integrated with a microwave detector. By using this new optoelectronic circuit.in place of a nonlinear crystal in an optical correlation setup, the high-speed photodiode can measure laser pulse durations without using expensive sampling oscilloscopes. Key advantages are that this circuit works over a broad wavelength range and at low peak ...