Photon-counting radiography with the gas microstrip detector

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1317-1335

  Gobbi, David G ^a,b   Dixit, Madhu S ^a   Dubeau, Jacques ^a   Johns, Paul C ^a,c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; X RAY;

BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; GASES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOGRAPHY; XENON;

EID: 0032908303     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/5/317     Document Type: Article

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