PIMEGA DETECTOR LINE
Promoting communication and imaging systems evolution through advanced configurable hardware
KEY FEATURES
- Noise-free hybrid photon counting technology
- Possibility of various sensor materials
- High frame rate (up to 2000 Hz)
- High dynamic range (up to 24 bits)
- Continuous or sequential data acquisition
- Short readout time
- Low dead area
- High modularity
- Compatibility with EPICS
APPLICATIONS
- Macromolecular Crystallography
- Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)
- Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS)
- X-ray Powder Diffraction
- Coherent X-ray Imaging
- Cone beam tomography
- X-ray projection imaging
PHOTON COUNTING TECHNOLOGY
The PIMEGA detector incorporates the Medipix3RX chip, which belongs to a family of read-out chips for particle imaging and detection. Medipix detects and counts each particle hitting the pixels when an electronic shutter is open. Its two energy thresholds enable high-resolution color imaging by dividing the photon hits into two energy ranges.
In PIMEGA, the grid of pixel sensors, integrated to the Medipix chip, is associated with an optical transport infrastructure (at 100Gb/s) by flexible cables. These sensors are placed in a ladder scheme making it possible to take non-invasive X-ray images with nanometric esolution, transporting, and processing them in “real-time” with lower dead area.
