A "Winner-Take-All" IC for determining the crystal of interaction in PET detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 3 PART 2, 1996, Pages 1615-1618

  Moses, W W ^a   Beuville, E ^a   Ho, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CAPACITANCE; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

NONLINEAR CURRENT AMPLIFIERS; VOLTAGE CURRENT CONVERTERS; WINNER TAKE ALL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030172843     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.507157     Document Type: Article

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