发明申请
US20140021356A1 DETECTOR ARRAY WITH TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION HAVING IMPROVED TEMPORAL ACCURACY
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检测器阵列具有时间到数字转换,具有改进的时间精度
- 专利标题: DETECTOR ARRAY WITH TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION HAVING IMPROVED TEMPORAL ACCURACY
- 专利标题(中): 检测器阵列具有时间到数字转换,具有改进的时间精度
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申请号: US14009666申请日: 2012-03-29
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公开(公告)号: US20140021356A1公开(公告)日: 2014-01-23
- 发明人: Bernardus Antonius Maria Zwaans , Thomas Frach
- 申请人: Bernardus Antonius Maria Zwaans , Thomas Frach
- 申请人地址: NL EINDHOVEN
- 专利权人: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- 当前专利权人: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- 当前专利权人地址: NL EINDHOVEN
- 国际申请: PCT/IB12/51506 WO 20120329
- 主分类号: G01T1/29
- IPC分类号: G01T1/29
摘要:
A detector (22) detects an event. First and second time-to-digital converters (TDCs) (70, 72) generate first and second time stamps (TS1, TS2) for the detection of the event. The first TDC and the second TDC are both synchronized with a common clock signal (62) that defines a fixed time offset between the second TDC and the first TDC. An autocalibration circuit (120) adjusts the first TDC and the second TDC to keep the time difference between the second time stamp and the first time stamp equal to the fixed time offset between the second TDC and the first TDC. The detector may be a detector array, and trigger circuitry (28) propogates a trigger signal from a trigger detector of the array of detectors to the first and second TDC's. Skew correction circuitry (132, 134, 136, 142, 60, 162) adjusts a timestamp (TS) based on which detector is the triggering detector.
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