Design of an FPGA based algorithm for realtime solutions of statistics-based positioning

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5029-5035

  DeWitt, Don ^d   Miyaoka, Robert S ^a   Li, Xiaoli ^b   Lockhart, Cate ^a   Lewellen, Tom K ^a   Hauck, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Continuous crystal, PET detector, FPGA

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC SIMPLIFICATION; COINCIDENCE RATE; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CONTINUOUS CRYSTAL, PET DETECTOR, FPGA; CURRENT SYSTEM; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY IMPLEMENTATIONS; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; IMAGE GENERATIONS; IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ALGORITHM; INTEGER OPERATIONS; MINIATURE CRYSTALS; OPTIMIZED ALGORITHMS; POST-PROCESSING PROCEDURE; PROTOTYPE HARDWARE; PROTOTYPING; REAL TIME; REAL TIME SOLUTION; REALTIME PROCESSING; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAGE ALGORITHM; STATISTICS-BASED POSITIONING;

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; HARDWARE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 67649191444     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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