A high dynamic range current-mode amplifier for computed tomography

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1615-1618

  Steadman, Roger ^b   Vogtmeier, Gereon ^a,b   Kemna, Armin ^c   Quossai, Salah Eddine Ibnou ^c   Hosticka, Bedrich J ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

CMOS; Computed tomography; Image sensor; Monolithic integrated circuit; Photodiodes; X ray

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MIRRORS; PHOTODIODES; X RAYS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; IMAGE SENSOR; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746360576     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.873679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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