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A complex task for PET cameras is the design of an appropriate coincidence-detection trigger as it usually encompasses coincidences in a large number of channels and tight time specifications. Those requirements are even greater for a resistive plate chamber (RPC)-based detector technology as the time window specification is quite small (in the order of a few hundred picoseconds) and the number of coincidence-channels can be quite large (more than 100 in a large camera). In this work we discuss on-going work aimed at implementing the coincidence-detection algorithm inside a FPGA along with the necessary TDCs. The use of the developed solution in a first prototype of an RPC-based small animal PET and its scalability to the case of a human, all-body, PET, is discussed.
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PET cameras Digital coincidence-detection trigger system TDCs Time-to-digital converters RPC-based small animal PET Resistive plate chamber Human scalability FPGA Field programmable gate array Positron emission tomography
Citation
F. M. C. Clemencio, C. F. M. Loureiro and C. M. B. A. Correia, The design of a digital coincidence-detection trigger system for a RPC-based pet, 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2007, pp. 827-830, doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436456.
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IEEE