Adaptive data acquisition for an imaging system

An adaptive data acquisition circuit includes an amplifier for amplifying electrical pulses generated by a detector responsive to energy incident at the detector. The adaptive data acquisition circuit also includes a counting circuit for counting amplified electrical pulses generated by the amplifie...

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Hauptverfasser: Astley, Oliver Richard, Tkaczyk, John Eric, Rao, Naresh Kesavan, LeBlanc, James Walter, Li, Wen, Du, Yanfeng
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An adaptive data acquisition circuit includes an amplifier for amplifying electrical pulses generated by a detector responsive to energy incident at the detector. The adaptive data acquisition circuit also includes a counting circuit for counting amplified electrical pulses generated by the amplifier. In addition, the adaptive data acquisition circuit includes a digital logic circuit for determining a pulse parameter indicative of a pulse rate and an amount of energy present in the amplified electrical pulses and for generating a control signal responsive to the pulse parameter for controlling an operating parameter of the data acquisition circuit.