Real time digital implementation of the High-Yield-Pileup-Event-Recover (HYPER) method

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4230-4232

  Liu, Jiguo ^b   Li, Hongdi ^a,b   Wang, Yu ^b   Kim, Soonseok ^b   Zhang, Yuxuan ^b   Liu, Shitao ^b   Baghaei, Hossain ^a,b   Ramirez, Rocio ^b   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

HYPER; PET; Pileup

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CIRCUITS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALOG SIGNALS; CLOCK FREQUENCIES; COUNT RATES; DEAD TIME; DELAY LINE; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; EN ERGY SPECTRUM; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; FIRST GENERATION; HYPER; INPUT SIGNALS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATION VALUE; MEASUREMENT RESOLUTION; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; PET; PILE UPS; PILEUP; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME PROCESSING; SCINTILLATION SIGNALS; WORKING FREQUENCIES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48149099925     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437051     Document Type: Conference Paper

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