Guerra, PedroSportelli, GiancarloOrtuño, Juan E.Vaquero López, Juan JoséDesco Menéndez, ManuelSantos, AndrésLedesma Carbayo, María Jesús2011-10-042011-10-0420072007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007, vol. 5, p. 3324 - 3327978-1-4244-0922-81082-3654https://hdl.handle.net/10016/12229Proceeding of: 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS'07), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Oct. 27 - Nov. 3, 2007Small animal PET systems based on a reduced number of rotating planar detectors have advantages in terms of cost/performance for high resolution imaging. The huge integration capability of current semiconductor technologies has favoured miniaturization and popularised the concept of system on a chip. Following this trend, this work attempts to integrate in a single chip the acquisition electronics and coincidence unit of a fully digital four-head PET scanner. The proof of concept is based on commercially available industrial modules, including a FPGAbased high speed acquisition board combined with a rackable computer, both in 6U cPCI form. The four acquisition digital blocks, coincidence logic and communication interface take up close to 30% of the available resources of the FPGA, providing margin for improvement in the system under development.application/pdfeng© IEEEconference paperBiología y Biomedicina10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436845open access332433272007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record5