A new pileup-prevention front-end electronic design for high resolution PET and gamma camera

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1969-1973

  Li, Hongdi ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a   Uribe, Jorge ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Liu, Yaqiang ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Xing, Tao ^a   Aykac, Mehmet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL DISTORTION COMPENSATION; FRONT-END ELECTRONIC DESIGN; HIGH YIELD PILEUP-EVENT RECOVER METHOD; PILEUP-PREVENTION;

CAMERAS; GAMMA RAYS; LOW PASS FILTERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNCHRONIZATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035553695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. A scintillation detector signal processing technique with active pileup prevention for extending scintillation count rates
2. Feasibility study of a high speed gamma camera design using the high-yield-pileup-event-recovery (HYPER) method
3. Electronics for a prototype variable field of view PET camera using the PMT-quadrant-sharing detector array