Fisher information as a gamma-ray detector design tool

Esen Salçin; Lars R. Furenlid

doi:10.1117/12.2065914

18 September 2014 Fisher information as a gamma-ray detector design tool

Esen Salçin, Lars R. Furenlid

Proceedings Volume 9215, Radiation Detectors: Systems and Applications XV; 92150B (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2065914
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The extraction of gamma-ray event information from detectors is an estimation problem as the signals are governed by multiple random effects such as information carrier (eg; scintillation-light photon, electron-hole pair) generation, propagation/transport and detection. A quantitative measure of how well the measured signals can be used to produce an estimate of the parameters is given by Fisher Information. In this work, we demonstrate several applications of Fisher Information as a powerful practical tool to quantify the information content in detector signals and help guide design decisions in scintillation and semiconductor detector development.

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Esen Salçin and Lars R. Furenlid "Fisher information as a gamma-ray detector design tool", Proc. SPIE 9215, Radiation Detectors: Systems and Applications XV, 92150B (18 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2065914

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