Speaker
Mr
Pierre Etienne Vert
(LPC Clermont and DAPNIA)
Description
The purpose of this study is to show how innovative concepts of compact, pipelined,
deadtimeless and ”Time Of Flight” capable electronics similar to those developped
for High Energy Physics experiments (LHC and post LHC) could be fairly and easily
transferred to the medical imaging field through clinical Positron Emission
Tomography scanners.
The two overriding weaknesses of PET camera readout electronics, namely timing
resolution and dead-time, were investigated analytically and by Monte-Carlo simulation.
Results shows that there is rather space available for count rate enhancement,
especially through a huge decrease of the timing resolution well below the
nanosecond. An optimized solution using basic building blocks of HEP for a generic
read out electronic chain is proposed and discussed.
Author
Mr
Patrick LE DU
(DAPNIA CEA)
Co-authors
Mr
Gérard Bohner
(LPC Clermont)
Mr
Gérard Montarou
(LPC Clermont)
Mr
Hervé Mathez
(IPNL Lyon)
Mr
Jacques Lecoq
(LPC Clermont)
Mr
Madjid Boutemeur
(IPNL Lyon)
Mr
Pierre Etienne Vert
(LPC Clermont and DAPNIA)
