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Sensors 2010, 10, 4100-4113; doi:10.3390/s100404100 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Ultra-High-Speed Image Signal Accumulation Sensor Takeharu Goji Etoh 1, Dao Vu Truong Son 1,*, Toshiaki Koike Akino 2, Toshiro Akino 3, Kenji Nishi 4, Masatoshi Kureta 5 and Masatoshi Arai 6 1 Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502, Japan; E-Mail: best2010@civileng.kindai.ac.jp 2 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; E-Mail: koike@ 3 School of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, Wakayama 649-6493, Japan; E-Mail: akino@info.waka.kindai.ac.jp 4 Kinki University Technical College, Kumano, Mie 519-4935, Japan; E-Mail: nishi@ktc.ac.jp 5 Nuclear Sensing Research Group, Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate, JAEA, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan; E-Mail: kureta.masatoshi@jaea.go.jp 6 Neutron Science Section, Materials Life Science Division, J-PARC Center, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan; E-Mail: masatoshi.arai@j-parc.jp * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: vtsdao@civileng.kindai.ac.jp; Tel.: +84-72-928-3120. Received: 24 March 2010; in revised form: 8 April 2010 / Accepted: 16 April 2010 / Published: 23 April 2010 Abstract: Averaging of accumulated data is a standard technique applied to processing data with low signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), such as image signals captured in ultra-high-speed imaging. The authors propose an architecture layout of an ultra-high-speed image sensor capable of on-chip signal accumulation. The very high frame rate is enabled by employing an image sensor structure with a multi-folded CCD in each pixel, which serves as an in situ image signal storage. The signal accumulation function is achieved by direct connection of the first and the last storage elements of the in situ storage CCD. It has been thought that the m