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Belver, D.; Cabanelas, P.; Castro, E.; Garzon, J.A.; Gil, A.; Gonzalez-Diaz, D.; Koenig, W.; Traxler, M. |
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Performance of the Low-Jitter High-Gain/Bandwidth Front-End Electronics of the HADES tRPC Wall |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
Abbreviated Journal |
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
| Volume |
57 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
2848-2856 |
| Keywords |
Charge to width algorithm; fast amplifying and digitizing electronics; front-end electronics; HADES; time of flight; timing RPC |
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A front-end electronics (FEE) chain for accurate time measurements has been developed for the new Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC)-based Time-of-Flight (TOF) wall of the High Acceptance Di-Electron Spectrometer (HADES). The wall covers an area of around 8 m(2) divided in 6 sectors. In total, 1122 4-gap timing RPC cells are read-out by 2244 time and charge sensitive channels. The FEE chain consists of 2 custom-made boards: a 4-channel Daughter BOard(DBO) and a 32-channel MotherBOard (MBO). The DBO uses a fast 2 GHz amplifier feeding a dual high-speed discriminator. The time and charge information are encoded, respectively, in the leading edge and the width of an LVDS signal. Each MBO houses up to 8 DBOs providing them regulated voltage supply, threshold values via DACs, test signals and, additionally, routing out a signal proportional to the channel multiplicity needed for a 1st level trigger decision. The MBO delivers LVDS signals to a multi-purpose Trigger Readout Board (TRB) for data acquisition. The FEE allows achieving a system resolution around 75 ps fulfilling comfortably the requirements of the HADES upgrade [1]. The commissioning of the whole RPC wall is finished and the 6 sectors are already mounted in their final position in the HADES spectrometer and ready to take data during the beam-times foreseen for 2010. |
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[Belver, Daniel; Cabanelas, P.; Castro, E.; Garzon, J. A.] Univ Santiago Compostela, LabCAF, Santiago De Compostela 15782, Spain, Email: daniel.belver@usc.es |
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Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc |
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0018-9499 |
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ISI:000283440400007 |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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349 |
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Blume, M.; Martinez-Moller, A.; Keil, A.; Navab, N.; Rafecas, M. |
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Joint Reconstruction of Image and Motion in Gated Positron Emission Tomography |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging |
Abbreviated Journal |
IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging |
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29 |
Issue |
11 |
Pages |
1892-1906 |
| Keywords |
Gating; motion compensation; positron emission tomography (PET); reconstruction |
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We present a novel intrinsic method for joint reconstruction of both image and motion in positron emission tomography (PET). Intrinsic motion compensation methods exclusively work on the measured data, without any external motion measurements. Most of these methods separate image from motion estimation: They use deformable image registration/optical flow techniques in order to estimate the motion from individually reconstructed gates. Then, the image is estimated based on this motion information. With these methods, a main problem lies in the motion estimation step, which is based on the noisy gated frames. The more noise is present, the more inaccurate the image registration becomes. As we show both visually and quantitatively, joint reconstruction using a simple deformation field motion model can compete with state-of-the-art image registration methods which use robust multilevel B-spline motion models. |
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[Blume, Moritz; Rafecas, Magdalena] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: moritz.blume@cs.tum.edu |
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Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc |
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0278-0062 |
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ISI:000283941800007 |
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no |
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yes |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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340 |
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Tetrault, M.A.; Oliver, J.F.; Bergeron, M.; Lecomte, R.; Fontaine, R. |
| Title |
Real Time Coincidence Detection Engine for High Count Rate Timestamp Based PET |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
Abbreviated Journal |
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. |
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57 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
117-124 |
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Coincidence detection; Positron Emission Tomography (PET) |
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Coincidence engines follow two main implementation flows: timestamp based systems and AND-gate based systems. The latter have been more widespread in recent years because of its lower cost and high efficiency. However, they are highly dependent on the selected electronic components, they have limited flexibility once assembled and they are customized to fit a specific scanner's geometry. Timestamp based systems are gathering more attention lately, especially with high channel count fully digital systems. These new systems must however cope with important singles count rates. One option is to record every detected event and postpone coincidence detection offline. For daily use systems, a real time engine is preferable because it dramatically reduces data volume and hence image preprocessing time and raw data management. This paper presents the timestamp based coincidence engine for the LabPET(TM), a small animal PET scanner with up to 4608 individual readout avalanche photodiode channels. The engine can handle up to 100 million single events per second and has extensive flexibility because it resides in programmable logic devices. It can be adapted for any detector geometry or channel count, can be ported to newer, faster programmable devices and can have extra modules added to take advantage of scanner-specific features. Finally, the user can select between full processing mode for imaging protocols and minimum processing mode to study different approaches for coincidence detection with offline software. |
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[Tetrault, M. -A.; Fontaine, R.] Univ Sherbrooke, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada, Email: Marc-Andre.Tetrault@USherbrooke.ca |
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Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc |
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0018-9499 |
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ISI:000274391000016 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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500 |
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Peris, J.B.; Davis, P.; Cuevas, J.M.; Nebot, M.; Sanjuan, R. |
| Title |
Distribution of Fitness Effects Caused by Single-Nucleotide Substitutions in Bacteriophage f1 |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
Genetics |
Abbreviated Journal |
Genetics |
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185 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
603-U308 |
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Empirical knowledge of the fitness effects of mutations is important for understanding many evolutionary processes, yet this knowledge is often hampered by several sources of measurement error and bias. Most of these problems can be solved using site-directed mutagenesis to engineer single mutations, an approach particularly suited for viruses due to their small genomes. Here, we used this technique to measure the fitness effect of 100 single-nucleotide substitutions in the bacteriophage f1, a filamentous single-strand DNA virus. We found that approximately one-fifth of all mutations are lethal. Viable ones reduced fitness by 11% on average and were accurately described by a log-normal distribution. More than 90% of synonymous substitutions were selectively neutral, while those affecting intergenic regions reduced fitness by 14% on average. Mutations leading to amino acid substitutions had an overall mean deleterious effect of 37%, which increased to 45% for those changing the amino acid polarity. Interestingly, mutations affecting early steps of the infection cycle tended to be more deleterious than those affecting late steps. Finally, we observed at least two beneficial mutations. Our results confirm that high mutational sensitivity is a general property of viruses with small genomes, including RNA and single-strand DNA viruses infecting animals, plants, and bacteria. |
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[Peris, Joan B.; Davis, Paulina; Cuevas, Jose M.; Sanjuan, Rafael] Univ Valencia, Inst Cavanilles Biodiversitat & Biol Evolut, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: rafael.sanjuan@uv.es |
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Genetics Soc Am |
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0016-6731 |
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ISI:000281905200017 |
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no |
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yes |
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no |
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IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
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383 |
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ATLAS Collaboration (Adragna, P. et al); Castelo, J.; Castillo Gimenez, V.; Cuenca, C.; Ferrer, A.; Fullana, E.; Gonzalez, V.; Higon-Rodriguez, E.; Poveda, J.; Ruiz, A.; Salvachua, B.; Sanchis, E.; Solans, C.; Torres, J.; Valero, A.; Valls Ferrer, J.A. |
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Measurement of pion and proton response and longitudinal shower profiles up to 20 nuclear interaction lengths with the ATLAS Tile calorimeter |
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Journal Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A |
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615 |
Issue |
2 |
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158-181 |
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Calorimeter; Test-beam; ATLAS; Monte Carlo simulation; GEANT4; Hadronic shower development; Pion-proton response; Longitudinal shower profile for hadrons |
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The response of pions and protons in the energy range of 20-180 GeV, produced at CERN's SPS H8 test-beam line in the ATLAS iron-scintillator Tile hadron calorimeter, has been measured. The test-beam configuration allowed the measurement of the longitudinal shower development for pions and protons up to 20 nuclear interaction lengths. It was found that pions penetrate deeper in the calorimeter than protons. However, protons induce showers that are wider laterally to the direction of the impinging particle. Including the measured total energy response, the pion-to-proton energy ratio and the resolution, all observations are consistent with a higher electromagnetic energy fraction in pion-induced showers. The data are compared with GEANT4 simulations using several hadronic physics lists. The measured longitudinal shower profiles are described by an analytical shower parametrization within an accuracy of 5-10%. The amount of energy leaking out behind the calorimeter is determined and parametrized as a function of the beam energy and the calorimeter depth. This allows for a leakage correction of test-beam results in the standard projective geometry. |
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[Hakobyan, H.; Simonyan, M.] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia, Email: Margar.Simonyan@cern.ch |
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Elsevier Science Bv |
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0168-9002 |
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ISI:000276299900002 |
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no |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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252 |
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