Abstract
A Si PIN detector for visible light detection, instead of a Geiger-Muller tube, is applied to X-ray photon counting. We counted radiation from a checking source of a Geiger-Muller counter with a Si PIN counter and with a Geiger-Muller counter. White X-ray of energy up to 20 keV emitted from a pyroelectric X-ray emitter was also counted, and the Si PIN X-ray counter showed a similar curve of count rate versus source distance in both measurements. Pulse counting was performed by spectroscopy circuits. An audio digitizer with computer software for signal processing was also used to simplify the photon counter. A plot of count rate versus time was obtained with this setup. With simple pulse counting circuits, Si PIN X-ray counters have advantages such as compact structure, low cost and easy application. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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