Real time digital signal processing implementation for an APD-based PET scanner with phoswich detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 784-788

  Fontaine, R ^a,b   Tetrault M A ^a,b   Belanger F ^b   Viscogliosi, N ^b   Himmich, R ^b   Michaud, J B ^a,b   Robert, S ^b   Leroux, J D ^b   Semmaoui, H ^b   Berard P ^b   Cadorette, J ^b   Pepin, C M ^b   Lecomte, R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes (apds); Field programmable gate array (fpga); Positron emission tomography (pet); Real time digital signal processing

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (APDS); REAL TIME DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIMESTAMP ALGORITHMS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION THEORY;

AVALANCHE DIODES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33746383470     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.875441     Document Type: Article

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