A data acquisition, event processing and coincidence determination module for a distributed parallel processing architecture for PET and SPECT imaging

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2439-2442

  Atkins, Blake E ^a,b   Pressley, Danny R ^b   Lenox, Mark W ^b   Swann, Brian K ^a,b   Newport, Danny F ^a,b   Siegel, Stefan B ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

COINCIDENCE DETERMINATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 38649116970     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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