Simple x-ray computed tomography system utilizing a cadmium telluride detector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6706, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sato, Eiichi ^a   Nomiya, Seiichiro ^b   Hitomi, Keitaro ^c   Onabe, Hideaki ^b   Shoji, Tadayoshi ^c   Tanaka, Etsuro ^d   Kawai, Toshiaki ^e   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a   Sato, Shigehiro ^a   Ichimaru, Toshio ^f   Takayama, Kazuyoshi ^g  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Raytech Corporation   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^e CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^f HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CdTe detector; First generation CT; Fluorescent CT; Photon counting CT; Single detector; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL FILTERS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE DETECTORS; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE DETECTORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

EID: 42149181156     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.733420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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