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Potential advantages of digitally sampling scintillation pulses in timing determination in PET

  • Qingguo Xie
  • , Chien Min Kao
  • , Xi Wang
  • , Ning Guo
  • , Caigang Zhu
  • , Henry Frisch
  • , William W. Moses
  • , Chin Tu Chen

Producción científica: Conference contributionrevisión exhaustiva

17 Citas (Scopus)

Resumen

We investigate the use of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for event processing in positron emission tomography (PET). In this work, we focus on the determination of the event time. We are building a digital library of pulse waveforms generated by using different photo-detectors, scintillator materials, crystal sizes, and read-out electronics of interest in PET. We employ a dataset from our library and investigate two methods for obtaining digital samples of an event pulse and several DSP algorithms for estimating the event time. Our first results, by using non-optimized DSP methods, are encouraging.

Idioma originalEnglish
Título de la publicación alojada2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC
Páginas4271-4274
Número de páginas4
DOI
EstadoPublished - 2007
Evento2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duración: oct 27 2007nov 3 2007

Serie de la publicación

NombreIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
Volumen6
ISSN (versión impresa)1095-7863

Conference

Conference2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS-MIC
País/TerritorioUnited States
CiudadHonolulu, HI
Período10/27/0711/3/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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