Development of FPGA-based coincidence units with veto function

Biomedical Engineering Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-31

  Ko, Guen Bae ^a,b   Yoon, Hyun Suk ^a,b   Kwon, Sun Il ^a,b   Hong, Seong Jong ^c   Lee, Dong Soo ^a,b   Lee, Jae Sung ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Eulji University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Coincidence; FPGA; PET

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954595163     PISSN: 20939868     EISSN: 2093985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13534-011-0001-3     Document Type: Article

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