Signal evaluation of a novel dual-energy multimedia imaging sensor

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 949-954

  Giakos, G C ^a   Chowdhury, S ^b   Shah, N ^b   Mehta, K ^b   Sumrain, S ^b   Passerini, A ^b   Patnekar, N ^b   Evans, E A ^a   Fraiwan, L ^b   Ugweje, O C ^b   Nemer, R ^b  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

CdZnTe detector medium; Dual energy digital radiography; Gaseous detector medium; Multimedia imaging sensor; Signal enhancement

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASEOUS SOLID STATE IONIZATION PRINCIPLES; MULTIMEDIA IMAGING SENSOR; SIGNAL QUALITY;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0036825726     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2002.806036     Document Type: Article

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