A full-custom mixed-signal CMOS front-end readout chip for high efficiency small animal PET imaging

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 475-478

  Mbow, N A ^a   Bard, P ^a   Brasse, D ^a   Colledani, C ^a   Fuchs, C ^a   Guyonnet, J L ^a   Hu Guo, Ch ^a   Humbert, B ^a   Ollivier Henry, N ^a   Hu, Y ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

DETECTION EFFICIENCIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SMALL-ANIMAL IMAGING; SMALL-ANIMAL PET;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 50649101455     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2007.4511033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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