Amorphous silicon active pixel sensor readout circuit for digital imaging

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 200-208

  Karim, Karim S ^a   Nathan, Arokia ^a   Rowlands, John Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor (APS); Amorphous silicon (a Si); Digital fluoroscopy; Integrated pixel amplifier; Medical imaging

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; AMPLIFICATION; IMAGE INTENSIFIERS (ELECTRON TUBE); IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; READOUT SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; COLUMN CHARGE AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL FLUOROSCOPY; INTEGRATED PIXEL AMPLIFIER; READOUT SWITCH; SMALL SIGNAL LINEARITY;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0037247587     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2002.806968     Document Type: Article

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