Design of a real time FPGA-based three dimensional positioning algorithm

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3652-3659

  Johnson Williams, Nathan G ^a   Miyaoka, Robert S ^b   Li, Xiaoli ^b   Lewellen, Tom K ^b   Hauck, Scott ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D POSITIONING; COINCIDENCE RATE; COMPTON SCATTER; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; CURRENT SYSTEM; D-ALGORITHM; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; LOOK UP TABLE; MINIATURE CRYSTALS; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; PROTOTYPING; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME STATISTICS; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE DESIGN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D);

DATA STRUCTURES; DESIGN; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 77951189097     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5401848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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