An MR-compatible singles detection and processing unit for simultaneous preclinical PET/MR

Abstract

Improving PET performance towards higher resolution and better sensitivity resulted in a continuous trend - especially in solid state PET and PET/MR - of an increasing number of channels to be read out by the detector electronics. Building complete PET systems with these detectors calls for a modular and self-triggered architecture with distributed processing power that is already in the detector module able to condense the data stream to corrected and gated singles.