System architecture of the LabPET small animal PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2546-2550

  Tétrault, Marc André ^a   Viscogliosi, Nicolas ^a   Riendeau, Joel ^a   Bélanger, François ^a   Michaud, Jean Baptiste ^a   Semmaoui, Hicham ^a   Bérard, Philippe ^a   Lemieux, François ^a   Arpin, Louis ^a   Bergeron, Melanie ^a   Cadorette, Jules ^a   Pepin, Catherine M ^a   Robert, Ghislain ^b   Lepage, Martin D ^b   Lecomte, Roger ^a   Fontaine, Réjean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Gamma Medica Ideas   (Canada)

Author keywords

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); CRYSTAL FILTERS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA TRANSFER; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL FILTERS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SNOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXIAL FIELD OF VIEWS; CHANNEL CALIBRATIONS; COINCIDENCE COUNTS; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION BOARDS; DELAYED COINCIDENCES; DIGITAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC NOISES; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; ENERGY WINDOWS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FILE SIZES; HOST COMPUTERS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PET SCANNERS; PHOSWICH DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSIONS; REAL TIMES; RECORDING MODES; SMALL ANIMALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; SYNCHRONIZED DATUMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TIMING INFORMATIONS; VITAL SIGNS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 57849120080     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2002326     Document Type: Article

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