Study of low noise multichannel readout electronics for high sensitivity PET systems based on avalanche photodiode arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 764-769

  Habte, Frezghi ^a   Levin, Craig S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit; Avalanche photodiode; Multichannel readout; PET system

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ARRAYS; AVALANCHE DIODES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAYS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; ENERGY SPECTRUM; MULTICHANNEL READOUT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) SYSTEMS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3342932486     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829599     Document Type: Article

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