An indirect flat-panel detector with avalanche gain for low dose x-ray imaging: SAPHIRE (Scintillator Avalanche Photoconductor with High Resolution Emitter readout)

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Li, Dan ^a   Rowlands, J A ^b   Egami, N ^c   Takiguchi, Y ^c   Nanba, M ^c   Honda, Y ^c   Ohkawa, Y ^c   Kubota, M ^c   Tanioka, K ^c   Suzuki, K ^d   Kawai, T ^d  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^d Hamamatsu Photonics KK   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium; Avalanche multiplication; Field emitter array; Flat panel detectors; Fluoroscopy; Image sensor; Photoconductor; Radiography; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; AVALANCHE DIODES; FIELD EMISSION; IMAGE SENSORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SELENIUM;

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; AVALANCHE MULTIPLICATION; FIELD-EMITTER ARRAY; FLAT-PANEL DETECTORS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 43149100367     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.772774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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