Timing performance comparison of digital methods in positron emission tomography

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 623, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1070-1081

  Aykac, Mehmet ^a   Hong, Inki ^a   Cho, Sanghee ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Constant fraction discriminator; Digital timing methods; Leading edge; Positron emission tomography; Time resolution

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FRACTION DISCRIMINATORS; DIGITAL TIMING METHODS; LEADING EDGE; POSITRON EMISSION; TIME RESOLUTION;

DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRONS; POSITRONS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77958473314     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.08.106     Document Type: Article

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