A parallel, transputer-based data acquisition system for on-line PET imaging of proton and gamma-ray radiotherapy bearns

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1 PART 1, 1996, Pages 154-158

  Litzenberg, D W ^a   Becchetti, F D ^a   Roberts, D A ^a   Vander Molen, A M ^b   Fox, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

DOSE DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION TIME; ONLINE IMAGING SYSTEMS; POSITRON EMITTING ACTIVITY; RADIOTHERAPY BEAMS; STORAGE MEDIA REQUIREMENTS; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TRANSPUTER BASED DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; TUMOR;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030084547     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.486022     Document Type: Article

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