PESIC: An integrated front-end for PET applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-33

  Herrero Bosch, Vicente ^a,b   Colom, Ricardo J ^b   Gadea, Rafael ^b   Espinosa, Jaume ^b   Monzó, Jose M ^b   Esteve, Raul ^b   Sebastià, Angel ^b   Lerche, Christoph W ^c   Benlloch, Jose M ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ASIC; Depth of interaction; Front end; PET; Pile up

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ASIC FRONT END; DEPTH OF INTERACTION; NUCLEAR IMAGING; TRANSRESISTANCE;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 39049121747     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.909902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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