Ethernet based distributed data acquisition system for a small animal PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2112-2117

  Hegyesi, G ^b   Imrek, J ^a,b   Kalinka, G ^b   Molnar J ^b   Novak D ^b   Vegh J ^b   Balkay, L ^c   Emri, M ^c   Kis, S A ^c   Molnar G ^c   Tron L ^c   Valastyan I ^c   Bagamery I ^d   Bukki T ^d   Rozsa S ^d   Szabo Z ^c   Kerek, A ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^d Mediso Medical Imaging Systems Ltd   (Hungary)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethernet based data acquisition; FPGA; Free running pulse sampling; LSO; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ETHERNET NETWORK; ETHERNET-BASED DATA ACQUISITION; FREE RUNNING PULSE SAMPLING;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 33748343827     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.878128     Document Type: Conference Paper

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