Novel front-end pulse processing scheme for PET system based on pulse width modulation and pulse train method

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages 782-786

  Shimazoe, Kenji ^a   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Shi, Boxuan ^a   Furumiya, Tetsuo ^b   Ooi, Junichi ^b   Kumazawa, Yoshihiko ^b   Murayama, Hideo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC); Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS); Positron emission tomography (PET); Pulse train; Pulse width modulation (PWM); Time over threshold (ToT)

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL INFORMATION; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR (CMOS); DIGITAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL SIGNALS; END SYSTEMS; ENERGY INFORMATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; POSITION INFORMATION; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; PULSE HEIGHT; PULSE PROCESSING; PULSE TRAIN; PULSE WIDTH; SHAPING AMPLIFIER; SYSTEM-BASED; TIME OVER THRESHOLDS; TIMING INFORMATION; TRANSMISSION LINE; TRIGGER PULSE;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77951173385     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2043262     Document Type: Article

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