Design and test issues of an FPGA based data acquisition system for medical imaging using PEM

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 761-769

  Bento, Pedro ^a   Lousã, Pedro ^b   Nobre, João ^b   Rego, Joel ^b   Rodrigues, Pedro ^c   Silva, José C ^c,d   Teixeira, Isabel C ^a,e   Teixeira, J Paulo ^a,e   Trindade, Andreia ^c   Varela, João ^c,d,e  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b INOV   (Portugal)

^c Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica de Particulas Lisbon   (Portugal)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Functional built in self test; Hierarchy; Modularity; Parallelism; Parameterization; Pipelining; Process diagrams; Re use

Indexed keywords

FRONT-END (FE) ELECTRONICS; FUNCTIONAL BUILT-IN SELF TEST; HIERARCHY; MODULARITY; PARALLELISM; PARAMETERIZATION; PIPELINING; PROCESS DIAGRAMS; RE-USE;

BUILT-IN SELF TEST; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 33746324237     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874841     Document Type: Article

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