Study of detection efficiency of Cd 1-xZn xTe detectors for digital radiography

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 244-251

  Giakos, George C ^a,b   Vedantham, Srinivasan ^b   Chowdhury, Samir ^b   Odogba, Jibril ^b   Dasgupta, Amlan ^b   Pillai, B ^b   Sheffer, Daniel B ^b   Nemer, Richard E ^b   Guntupalli, Ravi Kumar ^b   Suryanarayanan, Sankararaman ^b   Vega Lozada, Victor A ^b   Endorf, Robert J ^c   Passalaqua, Anthony ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^d Northeastern Ohio Medical University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cd 1 xZn xTe detectors; Collection efficiency; Detection efficiency; Energy absorption efficiency; Modulation transfer function (MTF); Physical parameters; Spatial resolution; X ray digital radiography

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; RADIOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031988257     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.728827     Document Type: Article

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