Amorphous semiconductors usher in digital X-ray imaging

Physics Today

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 24-30

  Rowlands, John ^a   Kasap, Safa ^b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DETECTORS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GLASS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

ACTIVE MATRIX ARRAY; AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTOR; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY IMAGING;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031272248     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881994     Document Type: Article

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