An investigation of the imaging characteristics of the Y2O2S:Eu3+ phosphor for application in X-ray detectors of digital mammography

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 931-937

  Cavouras, D ^a   Kandarakis, I ^a   Panayiotakis, G S ^b   Kanellopoulos, E ^a   Triantis, D ^c   Nomicos, C D ^c  

^a Ag Spyridonos Street ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DETECTORS; X RAYS; YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

PHOSPHORS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCREENING TEST; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EUROPIUM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OXIDES; SULFIDES; X-RAYS; YTTRIUM;

EID: 0345676501     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)10108-7     Document Type: Article

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