New light-amplifier-based detector designs for high spatial resolution and high sensitivity CBCT mammography and fluoroscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6142 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rudin, Stephen ^a   Kuhls, Andrew T ^a   Yadava, Girijesh K ^a   Josan, Gaurav C ^a   Wu, Ye ^a   Chityala, Ravishankar N ^a   Rangwala, Hussain S ^a   Ionita, N Ciprian ^a   Hoffmann, Kenneth R ^a   Bednarek, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone beam computed tomography; CT; Detector arrays; Detector mosaic; Electron multiplying CCD; Fluoroscopy; Light amplifiers; Mammography; Quantum accounting; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CATHODES; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MAMMOGRAPHY;

CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT); DETECTOR ARRAYS; DETECTOR MOSAIC; ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CCD; FLUOROSCOPY; QUANTUM ACCOUNTING; X-RAY DETECTORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745347356     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.649501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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