21st IEEE Real Time Conference - Colonial Williamsburg

Session

Imaging and detectors

14 Jun 2018, 10:40

Woodlands Conference Center

Conveners

Imaging and detectors

• Marc-André Tétrault (Université de Sherbrooke)

521. Pixel Detector System for Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy

Michael Eichin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute)

14/06/2018, 10:40

Oral presentation

At the Paul Scherrer Institue (PSI) the Center for Proton Therapy operates 3 different Gantries for patient treatment using Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) technology. To verify the quality of our PBS beam a new Pixel Detector based on simple and inexpensive printed circuit board (PCB) technology was developed.
The physical detector principle is an ionization chamber and has an active sensor area...

420. Real-time Local Noise Filter in 3D Visualisation of CT Data

Nicholas Tan Jerome (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

14/06/2018, 11:00

Oral presentation

X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging allows biologists to study the internal structure of living organisms with high spatial and temporal resolution. To control the flow of experiment, the online data visualisation is highly desirable. However, the noise inherent to the tomographic setup deteriorates the visual output preventing users from identifying the features. The problem is further...

568. An FPGA based high speed network processor - Preprocessing detector images relieving data backend systems

Martin Brückner (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14/06/2018, 11:20

Oral presentation

At the Paul Scherrer Institut several types of X-ray detectors are being developed. All of them have in common that they use network interfaces to transmit the images to a server for processing and storage.
One, concerning data rate, especially demanding detector is Eiger.
It is module based with 512x1024 pixels and two 10Gbit/s Ethernet connections per module. Since all modules are operated...

561. Characterization of TOF-PET Detectors Based on Monolithic Blocks and an ASIC-Readout

Efthymios Lamprou

14/06/2018, 11:40

Oral presentation

The aim of this work is to show the potential capabilities of monolithic crystals, coupled to large SiPM arrays to be considered as detector blocks for TOF-PET scanners. Monolithic blocks allow one to decode the 3D photon impact position. This approach, along with TOF capabilities, can be of high interest in clinical PET applications where a typical ring configuration is not used.
In this...

405. Configurable and Expandable High Speed Trigger Supervisor for Imaging Data Acquisition System.

Mr John McKisson (Jefferson Lab)

14/06/2018, 12:00

Oral presentation

The FPGA based Trigger Supervisor for the JLab Imaging Data Acquisition (DAQ) system provides a high speed connection for a number of data acquisition (DAQ) instruments. An example of a DAQ instrument is the JLab Ethernet 250 MHz 16 channel Flash Analog to Digital Converter (EFADC16) which is the basis of a recently submitted JLab patent application. The Trigger Supervisor is composed of a...