20th Real Time Conference

Session

DAQ 2 / Medical

DAQ

8 Jun 2016, 08:30

Padova, Italy

Conveners

DAQ 2 / Medical

• Martin Grossmann
• Stefan Ritt (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))

240. Digital SPAD Scintillation Detector Simulation Flow to Evaluate and Minimize Real-Time Requirements

Marc-André Tétrault (Université de Sherbrooke)

08/06/2016, 08:30

Data Acquisition

Oral presentation

Radiation detection used in positron emission tomography (PET) and calorimetric systems exploit the timing information to remove background noise and refine the position measurement through time-of-flight information (TOF). In PET, very fine time resolution (in the order of 10 ps FWHM) would not only improve contrast in the image, but would also enable real-time image reconstruction without...

87. Generic FPGA based platform for distributed IO in a Proton Therapy Patient Safety Interlock System

Michael Eichin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute)

08/06/2016, 09:00

Real Time Safety and Security

Oral presentation

A new gantry for cancer treatment has been installed at the Center for Proton Therapy in the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland, where already two in house developed ones operate since 1996 and 2013. The new gantry is a commercial device and had to be integrated into the existing control system of PSI. For this purpose it was necessary to develop a customized adapter, which supports an...

162. 3D photon impact determination in monolithic scintillation crystals using FPGA processing

Dr Albert Aguilar (I3M)

08/06/2016, 09:20

Data Acquisition

Oral presentation

We present the implementation of novel methods to accurately determine the gamma ray impact position within monolithic scintillation crystals in PET systems. These methods are implemented in a Kintex7 FPGA installed in each ADC board of the data acquisition system (DAQ) of the brain PET insert named MINDView. Improving the system processing capabilities is of particular interest when high data...

198. The Data Acquisition System of the KOTO Experiment and RPT Upgrade

Ms Stephanie Su (University of Michigan)

08/06/2016, 09:40

Data Acquisition

Oral presentation

The KOTO experiment is a particle physics experiment located in J-PARC, Japan, aiming to measure the branching ratio for the $K_L\to {\pi }^0\nu \overline{\nu }$ decay and to explore new physics. This decay has not yet been observed and it has a branching ratio predicted by the Standard Model to be $(2.43\pm 0.39)\times {10}^{-11}$. The current upper limit of $2.6\times {10}^{-8}$ was measured directly...