A new statistics-based online baseline restorer for a high count-rate fully digital system

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 2 PART 1, 2010, Pages 550-555

  Li, Hongdi ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Baghaei, Hossain ^a   Zhang, Yuxuan ^a   Ramirez, Rocio ^a   Liu, Shitao ^a   An, Shaohui ^a   Wong, Wai Hoi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto calibration; Baseline restoration; FPGA; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL SAMPLES; ANALOG FRONT-END; ANALOG METHODS; ANALOG SIGNALS; AUTO CALIBRATION; BASELINE DRIFT; BASELINE RESTORATION; BASELINE RESTORERS; BASELINE VALUES; COUPLING SYSTEMS; DC-DRIFT; DIGITAL SYSTEM; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FRONT END ELECTRONICS; GAMMA PULSE; HIGH-COUNT RATE; PET CAMERA; PILEUP CORRECTION; POSITIONING ACCURACY; PRE-AMPLIFIERS; SINGLE CHANNELS; STATISTICAL PROCESSING; WAVE FORMS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CALIBRATION; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; DIGITAL FILTERS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; POSITRONS; RESTORATION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951195164     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2036914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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