Presents the fundamental concepts of signal processing for all application areas of ionizing
radiation This book provides a clear understanding of the principles of signal processing of …

A simple and improved digital timing method was developed for positron emission
tomography (PET). This method, the so-called 'initial rise interpolation method', is based on …

A scheme is proposed for hardware estimation of the location of zero crossings of sampled
signals with subsample resolution for timing applications, which consists of interpolating the …

A novel digital signal processing method called digital-single-event-reconstruction (DiSER)
is proposed to detect pileups, and to recover the timing and the energy information of each …

With the development of fast sampling electronics, digital pulse processing techniques for
PET signals are raising interest. The optimal filter (OF) algorithm reconstructs pulse …

Current PET systems with fully digital trigger rely on early digitization of detector signals and
the use of digital processors, usually FPGAs, for recognition of valid gamma events on single …

The main focus of our study is to investigate how the performance of digital timing methods
is affected by sampling rate, anti-aliasing and signal interpolation filters. We used the …

Adapting acquisition electronics to new detector designs has often led to complications and
compromises. As we developed depth-of-interaction detector designs based on both …

Coincidence time resolution is one of the most important issues in PET detectors. Improving
this resolution is required to increase the noise equivalent count rate (NECR) that reduces …

In this paper, we describe current trends in data path topologies for Positron Emission
Tomography (PET) data acquisition (DAQ) systems which is used to capture signals from the …