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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Bjoern Weissler, Aachen, DE;
Pierre Klaus Gebhardt, Aachen, DE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A detector module () for a positron emission tomography (PET) system () includes an optical transceiver () receiving an optical data stream from a PET processing system (). The data stream includes a pulse train carrying a command to generate sync/reset pulses. The system () further includes synchronization circuitry () configured to simultaneously jitter clean the pulse train and one of: 1) count the pulses of the pulse train; and 2) monitor the pulse train for a missing pulse. The synchronization circuitry () is further configured to, in response to counting a predetermined number of pulses or detecting the missing pulse, extract a jitter clean pulse from the pulse train to generate a jitter clean sync/reset pulse. The system () further includes an internal clock () which receives the jitter clean sync/reset pulse.