Reprogrammable acquisition architecture for dedicated positron emission tomography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 695-702

  Sportelli, Giancarlo ^a,b   Belcari, Nicola ^c,d   Guerra, Pedro ^a,b   Spinella, Franco ^d   Franchi, Giovanni ^e   Attanasi, Francesca ^c,d   Moehrs, Sascha ^c,d   Rosso, Valeria ^c,d   Santos, Andrés ^a,b   Del Guerra, Alberto ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^e AGE Scientific   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coincidence detection; data acquisition architecture; dead time; fully programmable gate array (FPGA); in beam monitoring; latency; positron emission mammography (PEM); Stratix III

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE DETECTION; DATA ACQUISITION ARCHITECTURE; DEAD TIME; IN-BEAM MONITORING; LATENCY; POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY (PEM); PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY; STRATIX III;

ARCHITECTURE; COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRONS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959374404     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2113193     Document Type: Article

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