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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2008 Aug 11;53(17):R287–R317. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/R01

Figure 23.

Figure 23

An example of a silicon strip detector. The gamma ray produces hole–electron pairs that are collected on the strips and the charge then directed to appropriate amplifiers. On the right is an example of one such detector used at the University of Arizona.