6. Glossary#

6.1. Terminology#

detector#: a piece of hardware that changes incident photons to signal, can consist of several sensitive segments or channels (e.g. photodiode array)
pixel#
channel#: one sensitive unit in detector, one unit in recorded signal
reconstruction plane#: a plane that is either observed by detectors or lines of sights are transformed to it, usually poloidal cut is used for tokamaks
node#
voxel#: one segment in reconstruction plane described by a local basis function
camera#: enclosure for detector defining view and ensuring survival of detector (shielding, cooling…)
line of sight#
chord#: line approximating area that given detector channel can observe