Dynamic time over threshold method

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3213-3217

  Shimazoe, Kenji ^a   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Shi, Boxuan ^a   Orita, T ^a   Furumiya, Tetsuo ^b   Ooi, Junichi ^b   Kumazawa, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dynamic time over threshold (TOT); positron emission tomography (PET); pulse width modulation (PWM); time over threshold (TOT)

Indexed keywords

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MODULATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; CONVERSION CIRCUITS; COUNTING RATES; DISCRETE COMPONENTS; DYNAMIC RANGE; DYNAMIC TIME; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; PIXELATED DETECTORS; PULSE-HEIGHT ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; TEST CIRCUIT; TIME OVER THRESHOLDS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

EID: 84871385978     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2215338     Document Type: Article

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