Design of a second generation firewire based data acquisition system for small animal pet scanners

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5023-5028

  Lewellen, T K ^a   Miyaoka, R S ^a   MacDonald, L R ^a   Haselman, M ^a   DeWitt, D ^a   William Hunter, ^a   Hauck S , ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition electronics, PET system, FPGA

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION ELECTRONICS, PET SYSTEM, FPGA; COMMAND BUS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; DATA CHANNELS; DETECTOR MODULE; DETECTOR SIGNALS; EMBEDDED PROCESSORS; FIREWIRE; IMAGING SCANNERS; NEW DESIGN; ORIGINAL SYSTEMS; POSITION ESTIMATION; PULSE TIMING; SECOND GENERATION; SIGNAL LINES; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; DESIGN; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

SCANNING;

EID: 67649274499     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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