Performance of optimized amorphous silicon, cesium-iodide based large field-of-view detector for mammography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5745, Issue II, 2005, Pages 1078-1086

  Albagli, D ^a,c   Han, Sung ^a   Couture, Aaron ^a   Hudspeth, H ^a   Collazo, Chris ^a   Granfors, P ^b  

^a GE Global Research Center   (United States)

^b PERKINELMER INC   (United States)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Flat panel detector; Full field digital mammography; Tomosynthesis

Indexed keywords

FLAT-PANEL DETECTORS; FULL FIELD DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; TOMOSYNTHESIS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CAPACITORS; CESIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODIODES; X RAYS;

MAMMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844535476     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.597082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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