Scintillating fiber optic screens: A comparison of MTF, light conversion efficiency, and emission angle with Gd2O2S:Tb screens

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-285

  Yu, Tong ^b   Sabol, John M ^b   Seibert, J Anthony ^b   Boone, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL DEVICES; EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; IONIZATION; LIGHT; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILVER HALIDES;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM; EFFICIENCY CALCULATIONS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCINTILLATING FIBER; SCINTILLATING GLASS; SILICON PHOTODIODE;

FIBER OPTICS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 0031044881     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598071     Document Type: Article

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