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A fully digital beam position and phase measurement (BPPM) system was designed for the linear accelerator (LINAC) in Accelerator Driven Sub-critical System (ADS) in China. Phase information is obtained from the summed signals from four…

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Depth-of-interaction (DOI) encoding is an effective strategy for reducing parallax error and preserving spatial resolution in positron emission tomography (PET), particularly in compact small-animal scanners. To enable efficient…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Satzhan Sitmukhambetov , Junwei Du , Mingwu Jin , Yujie Chi

This work presents the 8-channel FastIC+, a low-power consumption and highly configurable multi-channel front-end ASIC with internal digitization, for the readout of photo-sensors with picosecond time resolution and intrinsic gain. This…

Time-tagging units and coincidence detectors are used in many scientific research fields. The required timing resolution and number of input channels are varying, but some emerging experiments in the field of quantum optics require up to 32…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-03 Attila Hidvegi

In this paper, the field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of a fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring system is presented. The system comprises of a preprocessing unit to remove various types of noise, followed by a fetal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-20 Bhavya Vasudeva , Puneesh Deora , Pyari Mohan Pradhan , Sudeb Dasgupta

Electronic systems for qubit control and measurement serve as a bridge between quantum programming language and quantum information processors. With the rapid development of superconducting quantum circuit (SQC) technology, synchronization…

LiDAR sensors have been widely used in many autonomous vehicle modalities, such as perception, mapping, and localization. This paper presents an FPGA-based deep learning platform for real-time point cloud processing targeted on autonomous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Lin Bai , Yecheng Lyu , Xin Xu , Xinming Huang

In this paper, a real-time 105-channel data acquisition platform based on FPGA for imaging will be implemented for mm-wave imaging systems. PC platform is also realized for imaging results monitoring purpose. Mm-wave imaging expands our…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Chengkai Guo , Jason Y. Du

The TT-PET collaboration is developing a small animal TOF-PET scanner based on silicon detectors featuring 30 ps RMS time resolution and intended to be inserted in an existing MRI scanner. The TT-PET scanner makes use of a stack of layers…

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in various clinical applications, including cancer diagnosis, heart disease and neuro disorders. The use of radioactive tracer in PET imaging raises concerns due to the risk of radiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Junshen Xu , Enhao Gong , John Pauly , Greg Zaharchuk

In state-of-the-art positron emission (PET) tomography systems, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)are commonly used to precisely digitize the signals of analog silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs). However, when operating PET…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-02 Vanessa Nadig , Bjoern Weissler , Harald Radermacher , Volkmar Schulz , David Schug

Direct reconstruction of positron emission tomography (PET) data using deep neural networks is a growing field of research. Initial results are promising, but often the networks are complex, memory utilization inefficient, produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 William Whiteley , Vladimir Panin , Chuanyu Zhou , Jorge Cabello , Deepak Bharkhada , Jens Gregor

Animal ethology is an crucial aspect of animal research, and animal behavior labeling is the foundation for studying animal behavior. This process typically involves labeling video clips with behavioral semantic tags, a task that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yiqi Wu , Xiaodan Hu , Ziming Fu , Siling Zhou , Jiangong Li

Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity, their latency performance on specific hardware platforms…

Spatiotemporal predictive learning (STPL) aims to forecast future frames from past observations and is essential across a wide range of applications. Compared with recurrent or hybrid architectures, pure convolutional models offer superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xinyong Cai , Changbin Sun , Yong Wang , Hongyu Yang , Yuankai Wu

The ClearMind project aims to develop a TOF-PET position-sensitive detection module optimized for time and spatial resolutions and detection efficiency. For this, we use a 59 mm $\times$ 59 mm $\times$ 5 mm monolithic PbWO$_4$ (PWO)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-28 A. Galindo-Tellez , V. Sharyy , C. -H. Sung , M. Follin , L. Cappellugola , S. Curtoni , M. Dupont , C. Morel , D. Breton , J. Maalmi , D. Yvon

Objective: Long-axial field-of-view (LAFOV) positron emission tomography (PET) systems allow higher sensitivity, with an increased number of detected lines of response induced by a larger angle of acceptance. However, this extended angle…

This work aims at the development of signal processing algorithms that can explore the potential of a PICOSEC-MicroMegas detector and offers the ability for online, precise timing. The PICOSEC-MicroMegas detector is a novel gaseous detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-30 Alexandra Kallitsopoulou

We develop and evaluate MlPET, a fast localized machine learning approach for probabilistic PET image analysis addressing the noise-resolution trade-off in conventional reconstructions. MlPET replaces computationally demanding Markov chain…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Thomas Mejer Hansen , Nana Christensen , Mikkel Vendelbo

We describe a many-channel experiment control system based on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The system has 16 bit resolution on 10 analog 100 MS/s input channels, 14 analog 100 MS/s output channels, 16 slow analog input and output…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-03 Daniel T. Schussheim , Kurt Gibble