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Baeck, T.; Cederkaell, J.; Cederwall, B.; Johnson, A.; Kerek, A.; Klamra, W.; Marel, J. van der; Molnar, J.; Novak, D.; Sohler, D.; Steen, M.; Uhlen, P., E-mail: hvdmarel@nmi.nl2002
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[en] A TOF-PET system has been designed and constructed for educational purposes. The aim of this system is to demonstrate the possibilities of positron emission tomography in general and the time-of-flight method in particular to the students of various courses at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The set-up consists of 48 small BaF2 crystals coupled to fast photomultipliers placed in a ring geometry. The signals of the photomultipliers are fed into fast constant fraction discriminators (CFD). The outputs of these are directed to a specially designed logic VME unit, which combines the CFD signals of 6 neighbouring channels to one signal by adding a different delay to each channel. The logic circuitry produces a prompt pulse for each event that serves as the start pulse for the 8-channel fast TDC. The delayed pulses act as the stop pulses for the TDC. In a computer, the measured times are converted into information about which the photomultipliers fired with the difference in the time of flight. The set-up is described and the results are presented
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S0168900201019131; Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment; ISSN 0168-9002; ; CODEN NIMAER; v. 477(1-3); p. 82-87
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ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS, BARIUM COMPOUNDS, COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY, DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DISCRIMINATORS, ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, EQUIPMENT, FLUORIDES, FLUORINE COMPOUNDS, HALIDES, HALOGEN COMPOUNDS, PHOTOTUBES, PULSE CIRCUITS, PULSE CONVERTERS, TOMOGRAPHY
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