Continuously sampled digital pulse processing for inveon small animal PET scanner

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 4262-4265

  McFarland, Aaron R ^a,b   Siegel, Stefan ^a,b   Newport, Danny F ^a,b   Mintzer, Robert ^a,b   Atkins, Blake ^a,b   Lenox, Mark ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTORS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALOG FRONT-END; CONTINUOUS SAMPLING; DIGITAL DOMAINS; DIGITAL PULSE PROCESSING; EVENT PROCESSING; HIGH STABILITY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTI-MODAL; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; OFFSET CORRECTIONS; PERFORMANCE DATA; PILE-UP REJECTION; PIXEL COUNTING; POSITIONING PERFORMANCE; SIEMENS; SMALL-ANIMAL PET; XILINX VIRTEX;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 48149103904     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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