Use of Digital Front-End Electronics for Optimization of a Modular PET Detector

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 408-418

  Cutler, P Duffy ^a   Hoffman, Edward J ^b  

^a University School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ATX; DIGITAL FRONT END ELECTRONICS; LOOK UP TABLES (LUT); PET; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODULAR BISMUTH GERMANATE DETECTOR;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028444941     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.293933     Document Type: Article

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