The hardware and signal processing architecture of LabPETTM, a small animal APD-based digital PET scanner

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-9

  Fontaine, Réjean ^a   Bélanger, François ^a   Viscogliosi, Nicolas ^a   Semmaoui, Hicham ^a   Tétrault, Marc André ^a   Michaud, Jean Baptiste ^a   Pepin, Catherine ^a,b   Cadorette, Jules ^a,b   Lecomte, Roger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data acquisition systems; Digital signal processing; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MEDICAL IMAGING; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRONS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SCANNING; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALOG FRONT ENDS; ANALOG PROCESSING; ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CHARGE SENSITIVE PREAMPLIFIERS; COMMAND AND CONTROLS; COUNT RATES; CRYSTAL IDENTIFICATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; DEAD TIME; DIGITAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; ENERGY MEASUREMENTS; ENTIRE SYSTEMS; FIREWIRE; PARALLEL CHANNELS; PET SCANNERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES; RECURSIVE ALGORITHMS; SMALL ANIMALS; TIME-STAMPING;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 60449085244     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2007485     Document Type: Article

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