Characterization studies of two novel active pixel sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Bohndiek, Sarah E ^a   Arvanitis, Costas D ^a   Royle, Gary J ^a   Speller, Robert D ^a   Clark, Andy T ^b   Crooks, Jamie P ^b   Prydderch, Mark L ^b   Turchetta, Renato ^b   Blue, Andrew ^c   O'Shea, Val ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image sensors; Lidar; Medical imaging; Modulation transfer functions; Motion detection; Real time imaging

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE PIXELS; CMOS IMAGE SENSORS; MOTION DETECTION; REAL-TIME IMAGING;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 37549062940     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2818224     Document Type: Article

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