A Modular Low Dead-Time Coincidence System for High-Resolution PET Cameras

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1386-1391

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence circuits; Digital signal processor; Positron emission tomography (PET); Programmable logic array

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ARRAYS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142031433     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.817309     Document Type: Article

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