Input circuitry is provided for a high voltage operated radiation detector
to receive pulses from the detector having a rise time in the range of
from about one nanosecond to about ten nanoseconds. An integrator
circuit, which utilizes current feedback, receives the incoming charge
from the radiation detector and creates voltage by integrating across a
small capacitor. The integrator utilizes an amplifier which closely
follows the voltage across the capacitor to produce an integrator output
pulse with a peak value which may be used to determine the energy which
produced the pulse. The pulse width of the output is stretched to
approximately 50 to 300 nanoseconds for use by subsequent circuits which
may then use amplifiers with lower slew rates.