Empirical electro-optical and x-ray performance evaluation of CMOS active pixels sensor for low dose, high resolution x-ray medical imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4612-4625

  Arvanitis, C D ^a   Bohndiek, S E ^a   Royle, G ^a   Blue, A ^b   Liang, H X ^c   Clark, A ^d   Prydderch, M ^d   Turchetta, R ^d   Speller, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMOS active pixel sensors; Detection quantum efficiency; Digital mammography electro optical performance; High resolution; Image quality; Indirect x ray detectors; Low dose; Modulation transfer function; Noise power spectrum

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE NOISE; CESIUM IODIDE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; METALS; MODULATION; MOS DEVICES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PIXELS; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SHOT NOISE; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CMOS ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; DETECTION QUANTUM EFFICIENCIES; ELECTRO OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW DOSE; NOISE POWER SPECTRUM;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 36649008913     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2804744     Document Type: Article

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