Front-end electronics for a 1mm 3 resolution avalanche photodiode-based PET system with analog signal multiplexing

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3871-3874

  Lau, Frances W Y ^a   Vandenbroucke, Arne ^b   Reynolds, Paul D ^a   Olcott, Peter D ^a   Horowitz, Mark A ^a   Levin, Craig S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG SIGNALS; ATTENUATION ,; ATTENUATION METHOD; CHANNEL COUNT; COMPTON INTERACTION; DYNAMIC RANGE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FIGURE OF MERIT; FRONT END ELECTRONIC; HIGH GAIN; IN-CHANNEL; INTERACTION ENERGIES; LOW-ENERGY INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLEXING SCHEMES; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PHOTO PEAKS; PHOTOELECTRIC ABSORPTION; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; POSITION IDENTIFICATION; POSITION SENSITIVE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SENSITIVITY PERFORMANCE; TIME RESOLUTION;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WIRE;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 67649195127     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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