Preliminary results of a data acquisition sub-system for distributed, digital, computational, APD-based, dual-modality PET/CT architecture for small animal imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2296-2300

  Fontaine, R ^a   Tetrault M A ^a   Belanger F ^a   Viscogliosi, N ^a   Berard P ^a   Cadorette, J ^a   Leroux, J D ^a   Michaud, J B ^a   Pratte, J F ^b   Pepin, C ^a   Robert, S ^a   Lecomte, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS; DUAL-MODALITY; OPTIMUM BIASING; OPTIMUM COUPLING;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 23844542164     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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