A simple all-digital PET system

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Xie, Qingguo ^a,b   Kao, Chien Min ^b   Xia, Rongsheng ^b   Wang, Xi ^b   Li, Na ^b   Jiang, Xin ^b   Zhi, Li ^b   Zhang, Zhi ^b   Deng, Zhonghua ^b   Chen, Chin Tu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Front end electronics; Peripheral connect interface; Positron emission tomography; Time to digital converter

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MULTIPLEXING; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER PLATFORMS; EVENT DETECTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35148842615     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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