Title :
An MR-compatible singles detection and processing unit for simultaneous preclinical PET/MR
Author :
Weissler, Bjorn ; Gebhardt, Patrik ; Zinke, Manfred ; Kiessling, F. ; Schulz, V.
Author_Institution :
Philips Res., Aachen, Germany
fDate :
Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012
Abstract :
Improving PET performance towards higher resolution and better sensitivity resulted in a continuous trend - especially in solid state PET and PET/MR - of an increasing number of channels to be read out by the detector electronics. Building complete PET systems with these detectors calls for a modular and self-triggered architecture with distributed processing power that is already in the detector module able to condense the data stream to corrected and gated singles.
Keywords :
biomedical MRI; data acquisition; positron emission tomography; readout electronics; PET performance; corrected singles; data stream; detector electronics; detector module; distributed processing power; gated singles; modular architecture; self triggered architecture; simultaneous preclinical PET MR; solid state PET;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2028-3
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551628
