CIX - A detector for spectral enhanced x-ray imaging by simultaneous counting and integrating

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6913, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kruger H ^a   Fink, J ^a   Kraff, E ^a   Wermes, N ^a   Fischer, P ^b   Peric, I ^b   Herrmann, C ^c   Overdick, M ^c   Rutten W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

DE; DET; DX; METR

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAYS;

DIRECT CONVERTING SENSOR; SENSOR RESPONSE; X-RAY PROTOTYPE CMOS CHIP (CIX);

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 43149120918     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.771706     Document Type: Conference Paper

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