Segmented crystalline scintillators: An initial investigation of high quantum efficiency detectors for megavoltage x-ray imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3067-3083

  Sawant, Amit ^a   Antonuk, Larry E ^a   El Mohri, Youcef ^a   Zhao, Qihua ^a   Li, Yixin ^a   Su, Zhong ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Yamamoto, Jin ^a   Du, Hong ^a   Cunningham, Ian ^b   Klugerman, Misha ^c   Shah, Kanai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DQE; Flat panel imager; Portal imaging; Quantum efficiency; Segmented crystal detectors

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CESIUM IODIDE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; RADIATION DAMAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; X RAY DETECTORS;

ACTIVE MATRIX FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; GEOMETRIC VERIFICATIONS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; PORTAL IMAGING;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SCINTILLATION; X RAY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 27244438336     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2008407     Document Type: Article

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