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Automatic and Scalable SiPM Calibration for Multi-Channel Time-Of-Flight Radiography Instrumentation

2025· article· W4417470689 on OpenAlexaff
A. García, Romain Espagnet, François Gagnon, L.-D. Gaulin, F. Cournoyer, Claire Normandeau, Réjean Fontaine, Marc‐André Tétrault

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicRadiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
Canadian institutionsInstitut interdisciplinaire d'innovation technologiqueUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCalibrationUSableInstrumentation (computer programming)ScalabilitySilicon photomultiplierNoise (video)GridDigital radiography

Abstract

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The SiPM has ignited the practical use of timeof-flight measurements in several applications. More recently, the technique has been proposed for radiography and computed tomography, where the timing information leads to the discrimination of ballistic and scattered photons. This translates into an improved contrast to noise ratio in the image without the use of antiscatter grid collimators. On the other hand, the SiPM operational conditions in these applications are very different from widespread ones such as Positron Emission Tomography, notably with a 5 to 10 times lower radiation energy. Calibration methods must therefore be adapted, but also scalable and with very short execution time in anticipation of future imaging systems with thousands of channels. This work proposes an automatic and distributed calibration methodology adapted to ToF in radiology and computed tomography. It is validated on a table-top 2 channel test setup, but with keeping an outlook on having a concept usable in a clinical context.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.929
Threshold uncertainty score0.885

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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