A CMOS active pixel sensor system for laboratory-based x-ray diffraction studies of biological tissue

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 655-672

  Bohndiek, Sarah E ^a   Cook, Emily J ^a   Arvanitis, Costas D ^a   Olivo, Alessandro ^a   Royle, Gary J ^a   Clark, Andy T ^b   Prydderch, Mark L ^b   Turchetta, Renato ^b   Speller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Rutherford Appleton Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COHERENT LIGHT; PIXELS; TISSUE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR (APS); BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COHERENT SCATTER IMAGING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLLIMATOR; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; FILTRATION; HUMAN; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSOR; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 41849121533     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/3/010     Document Type: Article

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