Development of scintillating fiber imager

A scintillating fiber imager (SFI) has been developed for restriction landmark genomic scanning (RLGS) technology. Test measurements have been carried out with genomic linkage map labeled with /sup 32/P (/spl beta/-ray emitter) and /sup 58/Ni beam at 90 A MeV as well. The system offers real time acquisition and an easy quantification of RLGS data compared to film-based autoradiography, and it is proved to be a powerful position sensitive detector for measurements in nuclear physics.