A CMOS photodiode array with in-pixel data acquisition system for computed tomography

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1034-1043

  Steadman, Roger ^a   Serrano, Francisco Morales ^a,b   Vogtmeier, Gereon ^a   Kemna, Armin ^c   Oezkan, Erol ^c   Brockherde, Werner ^c   Hosticka, Bedrich J ^c  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMOS imager; Computed tomography (CT); Monolithic integration; Multislice CT; Noise; Photodiode; X ray

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CAPACITANCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SENSORS; PHOTODIODES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAYS;

CMOS IMAGERS; MONLITHIC INTEGRATION; MULTISLICE CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 3042701348     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.829932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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