Title :
Digitally controlled generation of time correlated pulses
Author :
Abba, A. ; Caponio, F. ; Cusimano, A. ; Lusardi, N. ; Geraci, A. ; Tintori, C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Inf. & Bioeng., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
fDate :
Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013
Abstract :
In this contribution, we present a configurable digital emulator of pulses which generates analog signals with fully programmable shape, energy and temporal distributions. Two independent channels, which can be related in terms of the instants of occurrence of the events, allow generation of pulses with programmable delay with resolution below 12 ps. The instrument also combines the advantage of being extremely compact and portable and is suitable for designing and debugging instrumentation in which the measurements also involve times of flight or temporal correlation, like in PET machines.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; radiation detection; PET machines; analog signals; configurable digital emulator; digitally controlled generation; programmable delay; pulse generation; temporal correlation; time correlated pulses; times of flight; Delays; Emulation; Generators; Instruments; Noise; Shape; Signal resolution;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0533-1
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829725