Performance simulation studies of the clear-PEM DAQ/trigger system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2102-2111

  Bento, Pedro ^a   Gonçalves, Fernando ^a,b   Leong, Carlos ^a   Lousã, Pedro ^c   Nobre, João ^c   Rego, Joel ^c   Relvas, Paulo ^c   Rodrigues, Pedro ^d   Silva, José C ^d   Silva, Luís ^c   Teixeira, Isabel C ^a,b   Teixeira, João P ^a,b   Trindade, Andreia ^d   Varela, João ^b,d,e  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c INOV   (Portugal)

^d LIP   (Portugal)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Field programmable gate arrays; Positron emission mammography; Pulse analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PHOTODIODES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DATA STREAMS; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY; PULSE ANALYSIS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748369348     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.876155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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