New embedded digital front-end for high resolution PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 770-775

  Guerre, P ^a,b   Espinosa, J ^a,b   Ortuno J E ^b   Kontaxakis, G ^b   Vaquero, J J ^a,c   Desco, M ^c   Santos, A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Digital front end electronics; High resolution positron emission tomography; Real time system architectures

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; HIGH RESOLUTION POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; RISC PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SCANNING;

EID: 33746380245     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.874800     Document Type: Article

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