A building block for nuclear medicine imaging systems data acquisition

Abstract

Developing new detector designs for PET and SPECT imaging systems often leads to problems in adapting existing data acquisition electronics to the requirements for the new devices. As we developed our dMiCE and cMiCE detector concepts [1,2], we found that our existing electronics was inadequate to the task and launched a design effort we have termed our Phase II electronics [3]. Here we report on the implementation and evolution of the Phase II system as a basic building block for a wide variety of data acquisition tasks.