First images of a digital autoradiography system based on a medipix2 hybrid silicon pixel detector

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Mettivier, Giovanni ^a   Montesi, Maria Cristina ^a   Russo, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

PIXEL DETECTORS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

CARBON 14; SILICON;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BETA RADIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BETA RAYS; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTONS; SILICON;

EID: 0037821593     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/12/403     Document Type: Article

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