Performance of scintillating waveguides for CCD-based X-ray detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-8

  Badel, X ^a   Norlin, B ^b   Kleimann, P ^c   Williams, L ^d   Moody, S J ^d   Tyrrell, G C ^d   Frojdh C ^b   Linnros, J ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d Applied Scintillation Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pixellated detectors; Scintillating waveguides; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DETECTORS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; STATISTICS; X RAYS;

PIXELLATED DETECTORS; SCINTILLATING WAVEGUIDES; X-RAY IMAGING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33645696279     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.862981     Document Type: Article

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