Real time implementation of a wiener filter based crystal identification algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 925-929

  Viscogliosi, Nicolas ^b   Riendeau, Joel ^b   Bérard, Philippe ^a,b   Tétrault, Marc André ^b   Lefebvre, Roch ^a,b   Lecomte, Roger ^a,b   Fontaine, Réjean ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crystal identification; Positron emission tomography; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ALGORITHMS; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PHOTONS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POWDERS; SCINTILLATION; SNOW; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; THROUGHPUT; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE FILTERS;

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; AVALANCHE PHOTO-DIODE (APD); COUNT RATES; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATION; CRYSTAL PARAMETERS; DISCRIMINATION RATES; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY (FPGA); HIGH ENERGIES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LARGE RANGE; LOW ENERGIES; MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING; MAXIMUM THROUGH PUT; ONE-DIMENSION; PET SCANNERS; PHOTO PEAKS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); REAL TIME INFORMATIONS; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS; SMALL ANIMALS; ULTRA-FAST; WIENER FILTERING; X RAY PHOTONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BOTTLES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EMISSION; EXTRACTION; FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PARAMETERS; PHOTODIODES; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCANNERS; SNOW; SOLVENTS; X RAYS;

EID: 45849116584     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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