• DocumentCode
    686779
  • Title

    Design of a Data Acquisition System to reduce count rate losses in a PET scanner

  • Author

    Romanov, Leonid V. ; Holtermann, Paul F. ; McDaniel, D.L. ; Widen, Jim I.

  • Author_Institution
    GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The paper presents design and performance of a Data Acquisition System for PET Scanner. This System uses dual integration time to determine energy deposited in an 8×8 array of BGO crystals. Measurements and Monte-Carlo studies shows that our approach provides a significant improvement to the count rate capability of a detector at the cost of a very small increase in the number events which have assigned to a wrong crystal.
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; data acquisition; medical signal processing; positron emission tomography; BGO crystals; Monte-Carlo studies; PET scanner; count rate capability; count rate losses; data acquisition system design; detector; dual integration time; Crystals; Detectors; Fluctuations; Monte Carlo methods; Positron emission tomography; Sociology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0533-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829209
  • Filename
    6829209
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=686779