Digital System for Acquisition and Processing of Detected Images

Author

Abba, A. ; Fiorini, C. ; Geraci, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron.-DEI, Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

Volume

59

Issue

3

fYear

2012

fDate

6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

552

Lastpage

560

Abstract

The paper presents the digital electronic system for acquisition and processing of images from the detection stage of a compact and high resolution Anger camera to be used in clinical and research environments. Main features of the system are reconfigurability, linearity, low noise and processing data rate through hardware and firmware architecture solutions that also allow the system to operate in the presence of disturbances and electromagnetic noise, while at the same time minimizing the own radiated emissions.

Keywords

firmware; gamma-ray detection; high energy physics instrumentation computing; image resolution; nuclear electronics; reconfigurable architectures; silicon radiation detectors; solid scintillation detectors; CsI(Tl) scintillators; HICAM gamma camera; clinical environments; detected image acquisition; detected image processing; digital acquisition system; digital electronic system; electromagnetic noise; firmware architecture solutions; hardware architecture solutions; high resolution Anger camera; processing data rate; processing electronics; radiated emission; research environments; silicon drift detectors; system linearity; system noise; system reconfigurability; Application specific integrated circuits; Cameras; Clocks; Detectors; Field programmable gate arrays; Linearity; Noise; Biomedical imaging; digital acquisition system (DAQ); digital circuits; digital signal processors; programmable logic arrays;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2012.2187799

Filename

6172542