A sampling ADC data acquisition system for positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 297-303

  Mann, Alexander ^a   Grube, Boris ^a   Konorov, Igor ^a   Paul, Stephan ^a   Schmitt, Lars ^a   McElroy, David P ^b   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Positron emission tomography; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JITTER; MULTIPLEXING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION;

DATA STREAM; JITTER CLOCKS; OXYORTHOSILICATE (LSO) SCINTILLATOR; PHASE SHIFTS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 33645689588     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.869830     Document Type: Article

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