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G01T 1/185 (2006.01) G01T 1/29 (2006.01)
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CA 1120614
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A position-sensitive proportional counter circuit is provided which allows the use of a conventional (low-resistance, metal-wire anode) proportional counter for spatial resolution of an ionizing event along the anode of the counter. A pair of specially designed active- capacitance preamplifiers are used to terminate the anode ends wherein the anode is treated as an RC line, The preamplifiers act as stabi- lized active capacitance loads and each is composed of a series- feedback, low-noise amplifier, a unity-gain, shunt-feedback amplifier whose output is connected through a feedback capacitor to the series- feedback amplifier input. The stabilized capacitance loading of the anode allows distributed RC line position encoding and subsequent time difference decoding by sensing the difference in rise times of pulses at the anode ends where the difference is primarily in response to the distributed capacitance along the anode. This allows the use of lower resistance wire anodes for spatial radiation detection which simplifies the counter construction and handling of the anodes, and stabilizes the anode resistivity at high count rates (>106 counts/sec).
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Meredith & Finlayson
United States Of America (government Of The) United States Depar
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