The RatCAP front-end ASIC

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 19-25

  Pratte, Jean Francois ^a,b   Junnarkar, Sachin ^a,b   Deptuch, Grzegorz ^a,b   Fried, Jack ^b   O'Connor, Paul ^a,b   Radeka, Veljko ^a,b   Vaska, Paul ^a,b   Woody, Craig ^a,b   Schlyer, David ^a,b   Stoll, Sean ^a,b   Maramraju, Sri Harsha ^a,b   Krishnamoorthy, Srilalan ^a,b   Lecomte, Roger ^a,c   Fontaine, Rejean ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASIC; CMOS; PET; PET MR; Photon noise; RatCAP; Timing resolution

Indexed keywords

1 / F NOISE; ASIC; BEHAVIORAL STUDIES; CHARGE SENSITIVE PREAMPLIFIERS; CMOS; DIGITAL NOISE; GA TE LENGTHS; GAUSSIAN; INPUT DEVICES; LOW ENERGY THRESHOLD; N -CHANNEL; NUCLEAR SCIENCES; ON CHIPS; PET; PET SCANNERS; PET/MR; PHOTON NOISE; POLE-ZERO; POWER CONSUMPTION; PROGRAMMABLE GAIN; RATCAP; SINGLE OUTPUT; TIMING INFORMATION; TIMING RESOLUTION; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; ZERO-CROSSING DISCRIMINATOR;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME MEASUREMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349086240     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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