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US08822935B2 Method to improve the time resolution of digital silicon photomultipliers
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提高数字硅光电倍增管时间分辨率的方法
- Patent Title: Method to improve the time resolution of digital silicon photomultipliers
- Patent Title (中): 提高数字硅光电倍增管时间分辨率的方法
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Application No.: US13319107Application Date: 2010-04-15
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Publication No.: US08822935B2Publication Date: 2014-09-02
- Inventor: Thomas Frach , Gordian Prescher
- Applicant: Thomas Frach , Gordian Prescher
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2010/051647 WO 20100415
- International Announcement: WO2010/136910 WO 20101202
- Main IPC: G01T1/17
- IPC: G01T1/17 ; H03K5/22 ; G04F10/00 ; A61B6/03 ; G01T1/29

Abstract:
A radiation detector module (10) for use in a time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) scanner (8) generates a trigger signal indicative of a detected radiation event. A timing circuit (22) including a first time-to-digital converter (TDC) (30) and a second TDC (31) is configured to output a corrected timestamp for the detected radiation event based on a first timestamp determined by the first TDC (30) and a second timestamp determined by the second TDC (31). The first TDC is synchronized to a first reference clock signal (40, 53) and the second TDC is synchronized to a second reference clock signal (42, 54), the first and second reference clock signals being asynchronous.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120068077A1 METHOD TO IMPROVE THE TIME RESOLUTION OF DIGITAL SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIERS Public/Granted day:2012-03-22
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