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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Accurate Signal Conditioning for Pulsed-Current Synchronous Measurements.

Sara Pettinato, Marco Girolami, Maria Cristina Rossi, Stefano Salvatori

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sara PettinatoFaculty of Engineering, Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Via don Carlo Gnocchi 3, 00166 Rome, Italy.
Marco GirolamiIstituto di Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISM-CNR), Strada Provinciale 35D 9, Montelibretti, 00010 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0063-3636
Maria Cristina RossiDepartment of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Roma Tre University, Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146 Rome, Italy.
Stefano SalvatoriFaculty of Engineering, Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Via don Carlo Gnocchi 3, 00166 Rome, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper describes a compact electronic system employing a synchronous demodulation measurement method for the acquisition of pulsed-current signals. The fabricated prototype shows superior performance in terms of signal-to-noise ratio in comparison to conventional instrumentation performing free-running measurements, especially when extremely narrow pulses are concerned. It shows a reading error around 0.1% independently of the signal duty cycle (D) in the investigated D = 10−4−10−3 range. Conversely, high-precision electrometers display reading errors as high as 30% for a D = 10−4, which reduces to less than 1% only for D > 3 × 10−3. Field tests demonstrate that the developed front-end/readout electronics is particularly effective when coupled to dosimeters irradiated with the X-rays sourced by a medical linear accelerator. Therefore, it may surely be exploited for the real-time monitoring of the dosimeter output current, as required in modern radiotherapy techniques employing ultra-narrow pulses of high-energy photons or nuclear particles.

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ElectronicsPhotonsRadiometrySignal-To-Noise RatioX-Raysdiamond dosimetergated-integratorradiotherapysynchronous measurements

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PMID35891039
PMCPMC9321935

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