An 8x8 row-column summing readout electronics for preclinical positron emission tomography scanners

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2376-2380

  Shih, Y C ^a   Sun, F W ^a   MacDonald, L R ^b   Otis, B P ^a   Miyaoka, R S ^b   McDougald, W ^b   Lewellen, T K ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; COMMON SOURCE; ELECTRONIC CHANNELS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; READOUT ELECTRONICS; ROW-COLUMN; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SPATIAL CHANNELS; TIMING CHANNELS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; TIMING SIGNALS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DATA STRUCTURES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITRONS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SCANNING; TIME MEASUREMENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951192672     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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