08 May 2009 The SIB2316 silicon photomultiplier interface board provides the connectivity between two SensL SPMArrays & external signal processing electronics such as a Vertilon PhotoniQ data acquisition system. The 32 detector signals from two SensL SPMArrays are routed to a specialized high density coaxial cable assembly (SIB cable) on the SIB2316. The SIB cable carries the detector signals from the SPMArrays to the PhotoniQ where the charge from each is separately integrated, digitized, and sent to a PC for display or further signal processing. For PET applications that require pulse timing pickoff, circuitry monitors the total current delivered to the 16 elements of each SPMArray and on-board coincidence detection logic generates a trigger signal when two pulses are detected within a time-coincidence window. Several user adjustments are included for energy level thresholds and coincidence detection window width. The SIB2316 is expandable to up to eight SPMArrays and 128 detector channels. |