A true singles list-mode data acquisition system for a small animal PET scanner with independent crystal readout

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3323-3335

  McElroy, D P ^a   Hoose, M ^b   Pimpl, W ^c   Spanoudaki, V ^a   Schuler T ^b   Ziegler, S I ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Mixed Mode GmbH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CRYSTALS; DATA REDUCTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DUAL-RADIAL LAYER RINGS; ETHERNET; LIST-MODE DATA; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONICS; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; LUTETIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICATES;

EID: 22244440239     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/14/009     Document Type: Article

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