Implementation of a parallel virtual machine in the data acquisition system of a high resolution animal PET

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Boning G ^a   Pichler, B J ^b   Rafecas, M ^b   Lorenz, E ^a   Schwaiger, M ^b   Ziegler, S I ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CRYSTALS; DATA ACQUISITION; GAMMA RAYS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHOTODIODES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; COLINEAR EMITTED GAMMA RAY; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE CRYSTAL; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034593806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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