Low contrast imaging with a gaas pixel digital detector 1

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4 PART 1, 2000, Pages 1478-1482

  Amendolia, S R ^a   Bisogni, M G ^a   Bottigli, U ^a   Ciocci, M A ^a   Delogu, P ^a   Dipasquale, G ^a   Fantacci, M E ^a   Giannelli, M ^a   Maestro, P ^a   Marzulli, V M ^a   Pernigotti, E ^a   Rosso, V ^a   Stefanini, A ^a   Stumbo, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; VLSI CIRCUITS;

PIXEL DIGITAL DETECTORS; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING ARCHITECTURES;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0034244884     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.873000     Document Type: Article

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