PET demonstrator for a human brain scanner based on monolithic detector blocks

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 1, 2011, Pages 2190-2197

  Sarasola, Iciar ^a   Rato Mendes, P ^a   Garcia De Acilu P ^a   Cañadas, Mario ^a   Vela, Oscar ^a   Cela, Jose Manuel ^a   Oller, Juan C ^a   Núñez, Luis ^b   Willmott, Carlos ^a   Pérez, Jose M ^a  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit; artificial neural networks; position sensitive detectors; positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

APD ARRAYS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; ENERGY SPECTRA; FILTERED BACK PROJECTION; FRONT END ELECTRONICS; HUMAN BRAIN; LINEAR RESPONSE; LUTETIUM YTTRIUM ORTHOSILICATE; MONOLITHIC DETECTORS; POINT SOURCES; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; POSITRON EMISSION; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; REBINNING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BRAIN; CESIUM; DETECTORS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRONS; RESONANCE; SODIUM; SPECTROSCOPY; YTTRIUM;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 80054059647     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2152856     Document Type: Article

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