Real-time digital timing in positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2531-2540

  Guerra, P ^a   Ortuno J E ^b   Kontaxakis, G ^b   Ledesma Carbayo, M J ^b   Vaquero, J J ^c   Desco, M ^c   Santos, A ^b  

^a BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Positron emission tomography; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA PROCESSING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING CIRCUITS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURATE TIMINGS; CONTINUOUS SAMPLINGS; DIGITAL PROCESSING; EVENT-TRIGGERED; MATCHED FILTERS; NEW GENERATIONS; NEW OPTIONS; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PET SCANNERS; PULSE SIGNALS; SCINTILLATION PULSES; SMALL ANIMALS; TIMING ALGORITHMS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 57849133057     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2005896     Document Type: Article

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