Next generation of real time data acquisition, calibration and control system for the RatCAP scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 220-224

  Junnarkar, Sachin S ^a   Fried, Jack ^a   Southekal, Sudeepti ^a   Pratte, Jean Francois ^a   O'Connor, Paul ^a   Radeka, Veljko ^a   Vaska, Paul ^a   Purschke, Martin ^a   Tomasi, Dardo ^a   Woody, Craig ^a   Fontaine, Réjean ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; FPGA; PCI; PET; RatCAP; Real time; TDC

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC); SCANNER CALIBRATION;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 39049135363     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.914037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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