Modeling the acquisition front-end in high resolution gamma-ray imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1150-1155

  Guerra, Pedro ^a,b   Ortuño, Juan E ^b   Vaquero, Juan José ^a,c   Kontaxakis, George ^a,b   Desco, Manuel ^c   Santos, Andrés ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continuons sampling; Depth of interaction; Front end electronics; Hardware validation; Nuclear pulse processing; Positron emission tomography (PET) modeling

Indexed keywords

CONTINUONS SAMPLING; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; HARDWARE VALIDATION; NUCLEAR PULSE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33746355244     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.875065     Document Type: Article

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