Flat panel CT detectors for sub-second volumetric scanning

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue I, 2005, Pages 387-398

  Colbeth, Richard E ^a   Mollov, Ivan P ^a   Roos, Pieter G ^a   Shapiro, Edward G ^a  

^a VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Cone Beam CT; CT; Flat Panel Detector; FPD; High frame rate

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS; SCANNING; VISUALIZATION;

CONE BEAM CT; DYNAMIC RANGE; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS (FPD); HIGH FRAME RATE;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 23844527948     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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