Real time coincidence detection engine for high count rate timestamp based PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 1 PART 1, 2010, Pages 117-124

  Tetrault M A ^a   Oliver, J F ^b   Bergeron, M ^a   Lecomte, R ^a   Fontaine, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coincidence detection; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL COUNT; COINCIDENCE DETECTION; COUNT RATES; DAILY USE; DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA VOLUME; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; DIGITAL SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-COUNT RATE; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; IMAGING PROTOCOL; INDIVIDUAL READOUTS; LOWER COST; NEW SYSTEM; OFF-LINE SOFTWARES; OFFLINE; OR CHANNELS; PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC DEVICE; REAL TIME; SINGLE EVENT; SMALL ANIMAL PET SCANNERS; TIME-STAMP;

COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; ENGINES; LOGIC DEVICES; POSITRONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950648330     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2038055     Document Type: Article

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