Progress in electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) based, high-resolution, high-sensitivity x-ray detector for fluoroscopy and radiography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6510, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Kuhls, Andrew T ^a,b   Yadava, Girijesh ^a   Patel, Vikas ^a   Bednarek, Daniel R ^a   Rudin, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

DCT; DX; METR; SIM; SYS

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC TAPER (FOT); FIELD-OF-VIEW (FOV); INSTRUMENTATION NOISE EQUIVALENT EXPOSURE (INEE);

ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES;

EID: 35048867888     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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