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. 2013 Sep 12;40(10):100901. doi: 10.1118/1.4820371

Table 2.

The required deadtime of the electronic circuit (ns) to limit the DLR less than 10% and 30%, respectively, for various true count rates and detector sizes.

  True count rates
  20 (Mcps/mm2)
200 (Mcps/mm2)
Detector size (um2) DLR 10% DLR 30% DLR 10% DLR 30%
1000 × 1000 5.3 17.8 0.5 1.8
750 × 750 9.4 31.7 0.9 3.2
500 × 500 21.1 71.3 2.1 7.1
250 × 250 84.3 285.3 8.4 28.5
50 × 50 2107.2 7133.5 210.7 713.3