Potentials of digitally sampling scintillation pulses in timing determination in PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2607-2613

  Xie, Qingguo ^a,b   Kao, Chien Min ^c   Wang, Xi ^b   Guo, Ning ^b   Zhu, Caigang ^b   Frisch, Henry ^d   Moses, William W ^e   Chen, Chin Tu ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital signal processing (DSP); Positron emission tomography (PET); Scintillation pulse

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; ARRIVAL TIME; CONSTANT FRACTION DISCRIMINATORS; CRYSTAL SIZE; DATA SETS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUE; MULTI-VOLTAGE; MULTICHANNEL SYSTEM; PET IMAGING; PMT DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION PULSE; SCINTILLATOR MATERIALS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; WAVE FORMS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DETECTORS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; LUMINESCENCE; POSITRONS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350173270     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2023656     Document Type: Article

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