Evaluation of free-running ADCs for high resolution PET data acquisition

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 3328-3331

  Hao, Peng ^a,b   Olcott, P D ^b   Foudray, A M K ^b   Levin, C S ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS; DETECTOR MODULES; DIGITAL DATA ACQUISITIONS; DIGITAL LOGICS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; IN FIELDS; LINEAR TIMES; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; PROTOTYPING; TIME RESOLUTIONS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION;

EID: 48349147153     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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