Conveners
DAQ 2 / Medical
- Martin Grossmann
- Stefan Ritt (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))
Marc-André Tétrault
(Université de Sherbrooke)
6/8/16, 8:30 AM
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...
Michael Eichin
(PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute)
6/8/16, 9:00 AM
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...
Dr
Albert Aguilar
(I3M)
6/8/16, 9:20 AM
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...
Ms
Stephanie Su
(University of Michigan)
6/8/16, 9:40 AM
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 $K_L\rightarrow\pi^0\nu\bar{\nu}$ 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 $(2.43\pm0.39)\times10^{-11}$. The current upper limit of $2.6\times10^{-8}$ was measured directly...
