Development of x-ray detector for Multislice CT with 0.5 mm slice thickness and 0.5 second revolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4682, Issue , 2002, Pages 755-763

  Okumura, M ^a   Tamatani, M ^a   Igarashi, K ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Detectors; Multi slice CT; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DAMAGE; X RAYS;

X-RAY DETECTORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0036033617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.465624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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